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Cartwright's Cavaliers

The Revelations Cycle, Book 1

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Cartwright's Cavaliers

By: Mark Wandrey
Narrated by: Craig Good
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Heir to one of the leading "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright.

But the Horsemen of eras past were smart - they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company. It's up to Jim to find the people he needs to operate the machinery of war, train them, and lead them to victory. If he's good enough, the company can still be salvaged.

But then again, he's never been good enough.

©2016 Mark Wandrey (P)2017 Mark Wandrey Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction

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I must admit that I nearly returned this due to the slow and robotic reader. The story is good, and I will be downloading the next in the series

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The quality of Four Horseman books varies from author to author, but that is one of the major charms that continually draws me back to books from the 4H universe.

This series of books are not likely to win major literary prizes for fiction, but they are engaging, fun, and fill the reader with hope that the Human Race has a future out beyond this planet.
They postulate that our ingenuity and perpetually-combative warlike nature is valued by other species as a commodity, and ultimately a force for good.

In this, Cartwright's Cavaliers delivers in spades.
This book touches on so many aspects of the human condition in such a way as to construct a storied symphony that truly spoke to me.

This is an action-adventure novel, lovingly-crafted rip-roaring adventure story fashioned to talk to even the most jaded among us.
There is excitement, hope, love, betrayal, corruption, camaraderie, adversity, loss, survival, and so much more.


Sadly though, there were a few minor negatives: Pronunciations.

tldr: "I know I'm being silly, but I do have a valid point to put over - if you are going to read a book to others, please learn how to pronounce the words/names correctly."



Explanation of above comment.

Blatant mispronunciation of established place names, military and scientific terms, etc., often ruin my enjoyment of audiobooks.
I feel that they do a disservice to the author and the listener both.

As an ex-soldier (UK), I find some of the mispronunciations of military terms by the various narrators so grating as to instantly eject me from an authors' carefully-crafted universe - much like the overused "Wilhelm Scream" now breaks the 4th wall in a film every time I hear it.

While allowing for the ever-present different versions of modern English, taking the UK vs. UK pronunciations/spelling of words as an obvious example, sometimes the narrators make silly mistakes.

Craig Good does better than most in this respect. I'd go so far to say that he does extremely well to avoid the usual pitfalls.

His style and vocalisations of accents was acceptable, even outstanding in places, but one mispronounced word drove me nuts!
I even stopped listening several times to replay it to my partner...

It's a simple word: "Ration"

Every person I've ever heard speak it, would do so that it would rhyme with "Ashen."
Phonetically, it could be written as "Rash-en."

Craig Good says "Ration" so as to rhyme with "Nation."
Phonetically, he says: "Ray-shen."

The first time I heard it, I wasn't actually sure what he said. I had to go back and listen a couple of times! :D

There were a few other 'sillies,' but this was the one that did it for me.

I would like to thank Craig for using the 'correct' pronunciation of the word "Glacis" - as in "glacis plate."
(One of his contemporaries mangled that word so badly that not even a native French speaker would be able to understand them!)

One of the best in the series

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The Four Horseman Universe (4HU) has over 40 books in it, and is a conglomerate of different authors. Some books are mandatory for the main story, some are just extras. When you are presented with such a large body of work, you have to ask yourself "Do I really want to get involved with this?" Do you like BattleTech? Military Fiction? Stories of where the underdog triumphs over adversity? Mech suited combat in general? Then actually, the 4HU may be for you,. Mark Wandrey has done a really nice job here. There's a great mix of world building, character development, and plot., with scatterings of mech combat in between. For a military fiction book and about mechanised war suits however, combat isn't the main draw here. The main focus is on the main character Jim, and how he goes from being the picked on fat kid, to running one of the top 4 merc companies in the galaxy. Its a good story, and the protagonist is just likeable. He is not good at everything, not an action hero, but he a good leader just trying to find his way. Interestingly enough, other reviwers have pointed out the fact that Jim is a Broney - this doesn't get brought up often, and doesn't effect the story (not sure why its even in there, but more power to him) You can read/listen to Cartwright's Cavaliers without going further in the 4HU, it tells a complete story, but I personally will be trying out some of the other titles. The narrator Craig Good is an odd one. I cant imagine Jim's voice coming from someone else now, but at times he a bit monotone/slow. I mostly rectified this by putting him at 1.15 speed, but your mileage may vary Fully recommend giving this a go

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