The evolution of Jay Allan: trauma or greed?

Narrator was awesome, as usual.

If you're reading this review prior to purchase, have read the preceding 17 novels, and can't imagine living without some degree of closure, then make the purchase and suffer through. A conclusion, though admittedly odd, will be reached.

I enjoyed most of this series and eagerly awaited the final installment. Whether my standards were different at the time I read or listened to the first 17 novels, I cannot say with certainty. I was tempted to go back and read one of the first novels again to validate my current position, but cannot bring myself to invest any more time at this point.

What I can say with certainty is that my perception of the author's writing has declined to a previously unparalleled degree. While waiting for this novel, I purchased the first book from Jay's new series (title is Invasion), and was left entirely perplexed by the amount of senseless repetition and filler material the reader had to suffer through to advance the plot. This novel comes across precisely the same.

Character 1 feels, believes, ponders that they are in a hopeless situation. He / she thinks there is no hope, yet still has some hope. Things are so dire though that the situation is hopeless. No possibility of success exists.

Repeat for characters 2 through 10. Insert chapter that explains events in a battle. Characters repeat previous content while reader waits for plot advancement. Throw in some ancient Greek mythology, without any back story or context. Rinse and repeat again. Good guy does what good guy's do - despite 20% of the book being dedicated to finding new ways of explaining the hopeless situation from all perspectives . Nonsensical ending.

So, considering the plot advancement delivered in this novel would have neatly fit into 4 paragraphs of a previous book (along with the dumpster fire of a read that is Invasion), my single question is: whiskey, tango foxtrot. Jay is either dealing with some personal trauma and his writing is suffering, or he enjoys seeing how many new books he can get people to purchase sans providing measurably new content or value.

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Kept me on the edge of my seat.

I have always been a Jay Allan fan this book doesn’t disappoint. I hope he does a spin off.

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Speechless

I have loved this story and Jay Allen as an author since I read his first book in the Crimson Worlds series currently I am only halfway through this book and I cannot express how wonderful it is. I AM SPEECHLESS in the most recent twist and reveal of the final faction. I wish there were more to this series to come but I think I will now need to go back and start reading and listening from the begging with crimson worlds again.

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repetitive and annoying.

inner dialogue off the charts. same inner dialogue repeated over and over. incredible, very incredible, well, very well, realize realize realize.... everyone is realizing what they didn't realize or did realize. seriously! you will be laughing towards the end at how juvenile... even infantile the author's writing becomes.
blood on the stars was awesome and a few of the other titles in the series. the first book is my favorite space Opera of all time. but... the last book was useless repetition, 99 percent inner dialogue that repeats the same thoughts and ideas over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I'm glad it's over. that being said, I actually liked the ending. delete 75 percent of this book, mostly the filler and infantile use of exclamation, and replace inner dialogue with actual dialogue, and it would have be awesome.
the author is greedy. obviously only wanted the money for this last book. sad. SMH.

author seriously fluffed a short story into a nove

author bailed on final book to end a otherwise great series..hope he does better with future series

Great Series: Amazing ending!

Generally ending are less than to be desired, however this one was amazing! Fallowing Tyler’s travels was, to say the least, amazing, nail biting, heart felt, and the ending was more than I expected. So, do yourself a favor make sure you listen to all of Blood on the Stars before Empire Reborn, you won’t be disappointed!

Glad this is the last book

This is literally the worst book in the series. The characters spend chapter after chapter just repeating themselves. The author wrote himself into a corner and gave up. I’ve been waiting for this series to end for 5 books now. The only reason I’m still listening is because I need closure lol.

so repetitive series needed to end

The narration of the what's going on in people's mind was repetitive over and over again the same thing

Managed to get through.

The story was overall good.

The writer had a lot of repeating lines which led to some monotonous parts of the story.

The narrator does not have much of a range.

I did still overall enjoy the series as a whole.

Only read or listen if you need the conclusion

Writing has gotten very lazy and repetitive. I'd argue that 70% of the book is repetitive fluff to just eat up words. It was almost comical at the end. The early books were great but I think the author phoned it in for this paycheck.