This is a well written, fun listen. I liked Joe - he is a likeable, smartass (and badass)/; character. I loved his assistant and the rest of the merc team. They always pulled together and had a one for all attitude which I admire.Joe is a hardworking Marine who ends up hurt, out of a job, and with enhanced abilities when the alien wars end. He becomes a salvage merc. When his best Marine buddy ends up president of the alliance, he senses things are off. What he does next will make him a legend.I...

This book starts out good but gets wierd fast. It's kind of a story about how a guy gets sucked in by destiney to become a God. The setting is interesting and there are a lot of excellent character interactions before the whole - doomed to become god plot takes over. I feel like this is a series that might improve as it goes on but has kind of a rocky start

i enjoyed this one and the ending was good. i admit, i had a bit of a struggle with the way things wrapped up, but its where the author wanted to take me, so i just relaxed and went for the ride. turned out it went well and was worth the read.

Different, interesting, entertaining but sadly gave me something of a headache. Glad I read it but I won't be bothering with the sequel...

This series reminds me so much of Roak: The Galactic Bounty Hunter. Of course, the locale, the era, and the narrator are the same, so that helps. These two guys must be related; Roak the bounty hunter and Joe Laribeau the salvage merc. Joe Laribeau, former Galactic Fleet Marine who now sports a pair of speedy artificial legs after losing his real ones in battle. Now recruited as salvage merc #184 by the Salvage Merc Corp. Little does Joe realize that he’s about to embark on a world-changing dest...

I remember one of the first podcasts I listened to in the mid-2000s was a very interesting take on zombies called DEAD MECH by Jake Bible. It was interesting and unique enough that 10 yrs later I still recognized the author’s name and when I was offered the opportunity to listen to the audiobook of Salvage Merc One by Jake Bible, I jumped at the chance.This is a true sci-fi novel with a startlingly large and varied amount of alien species. While it doesn’t get bogged down in useless details of i...

DNF

An ex-marine gets recruited into salvage company-for-hire. This book was generally good, but it has some problems that I don't know if I can express fully. First is the first person perspective, the writing was informal, which one the one hand allowed for some pretty humorous jokes and observations from the main character. It sometimes became too informal though, to the point where I started to skim over whole conversations because I wasn't interested in the commentary. There were a lot of unans...

Not one of my absolute favourites, but still a really good read. I like the characters, and the aliens are sublimely unique. I probably would have given this a 5 star rating if I hadn’t read his Roak books first. Salvage Merc One just isn’t quite as hard hitting in comparison.

I read about 60% of this book and then I got tired, I rarely leave a book unfinished but at least in my case, this book has nothing to drive me to finish reading it. You got a lot of short fast passages that don't build anything solid, many happenings are portrayed almost in a divine way but they don't earn that distinction in any way, it seems the author just wants to make readers think that some concepts are incredible but for me, they just seem dull. The whole ex-military merc story has becom...

This book was funny.So Jo Laribeau leaves the marines, he has lost his legs, but has had them replaced with artificial ones. He is in a spot of bother in a bar one night, when a rather interesting woman offers him a job in the Salvage Marine Corps, or SMC, an organisation that does jobs around the place for whoever needs jobs done.The Corps is a neutral organisation, they don’t take sides, so even if there is a war, they still remain neutral.Anyone can hire then, to do any job, and they just get...

Overall Rating is Misleading I read Military -- historical, fiction, SciFi -- and I'm a little confused over this books genre placement and overall rating. To be fair, probably over half the current books placed in military anything don't belong . A Former military MC type automagically puts in that genre, I guess.For Amazon to recommend to me is another mystery but it happens all too frequently. They need to get a new AI, somebody -- somewhere should be able to come up with common sense algorit...

well, 3.4the story is quite entertaining and funny. maybe i'm just a tiny bit too old to take it seriously ;)

Good fun science fiction actionI loved this book! There was enough action to keep me reading and not want to set my kindle down. Enough humor to keep me smiling, and a hero that I could cheer for and want to get in there and help him win. I can hardly wait for the next Salvage Mercury One book.

This review refers to the audiobook version.I must admit that the first time I tried to listen to the book I gave up after a few chapters. The characters seemed infantile and their interactions grated on me. I'm glad that I waited a while and tried again.Joe Laribeau is an ex-marine who was discharged after the war with the Skrang, because his artificial legs were too expensive for the military to consider maintaining. He get recruited into the Salvage Merc's who go around finding and recovering...

( Format : audio )"Numbers" - 184This is a terrific, very fast paced military-style science fiction which bounces around worlds and meets aliens galore. It is funny and fun.Simple story: invalided out of the military life he loved, Joseph is approached and recruited into a special corporation, the Salvage Merc Corp. It's operatives are known by numbers: Joe is 184. He is not very good at his assignments so was surprised to be entrusted with something rather special: to track down the almost myth...

I enjoyed this book and found myself grinning at the quirky humor.The author wittilly tells the story of Joe in the first person perspective.Andrew B. Wehrlen was excellent at narrating the audiobook and giving life to each character.It felt as if I was sitting there with them,experiencing the story as it happened.I liked that the author kept creatively revealing more plot twists and kept me guessing till the end.I received an audiobook from the author in exchange for an honest review.

Sardonic Humor, as Salvage Mercs Fight for BalanceMuch more traditional adventure story than all the wild humor in "ROARK:" , but still plenty of dark humor and cynicism. Very enjoyable read, with lots going on behind the scenes. Characters develop and change -- a little as they battle for balance in our Galaxy. There is an area of character overlap between Joe, the primary protagonist of "Salvage Mercs One" and Roark, the bounty hunter protagonist of "ROARK". Both are wisecracking warriors tryi...

Read more reviews @ The BibliosanctumTL; DR Review3.5 stars. Joe Laribeau reminds me of the most irresponsible drunk in the galaxy. Commander John Shepard. Kicks ass even after having all the drinks in the galaxy. And I do mean all of them.Longer ReviewJoe Laribeau is an ex-Marine sergeant who was discharged after losing both his legs. His legs are replaced with battle legs (metal legs that allow him to run pretty swiftly and hold up well), but the military still feels that he's too expensive an...

How anyone liked this book let alone gave it 5 stars is beyond me. Not only was the writing terrible the story made no sense and the characters couldn't have been any less life-like. At one point the hero is called juvenile by another character and I think that's the best way to describe the whole book, its like it's written by a non particularly intelligent 13 year old boy just hitting puberty. I will never read another Jake Bible book and should have known how bad it would be from the cover an...