The series remains fairly well done, but is beginning to slip. Plot elements are being repeated for at least the 3rd if not 4th or 5th time, and the predictability factor has skyrocketed. The series is starting to become formulaic like the author picked up discarded scraps from a Star Trek cutting room floor and pieced it together.It’s been a book and a half now since anything surprising has happened. That “wow I didn’t see that coming” moment was left in the dust 300+ pages back, and the story

As consumers, we have to stop accepting this crap. Book 1, 2 and 3 are amazing. Amazing! And if you haven't listened to R.C. Bray's narration, you need to find a way to listen to it. Pardon the cliche, but he was born to narrate this series. I still LMAO everytime I think about one sheep. Book 4 was also excellent, with a few moments of - been there, done that. But book 5 there is sooooooooo much of the same old same old. Problem, sarcasm, monkey banana comment, Joe with a never conceived of bef...

It's fun, but it's also "One damned thing after another." There's nothing that gets resolved. Sometimes I feel like we've recycled a plot device. Oh, no, here come the aliens again. I enjoy the dialog, and the characters, and will read the next one, and the next, and the next ...

Pretty good.

This story is pretty much ditto of the previous 4 and half book. R. C. Bray again does an amazing job narrating the audio book. Really the story should probably be rated 3 stars. R. C. Bray's efforts makes it 4 star entertainment. The formula is getting pretty familiar by now. The Happy Band of Pirates wind up in a predicament where the odds against survival are very slim. Skippy, the beer can AI, pulls off some incredible technical stunts. Joe thinks up some impossible "monkey-brained" ideas th...

I listen to this book while I'm driving, and sometimes I just burst out laughing at Skippy's rants...although those seemed to be less frequent in this installment of the series...this book just lifted my mood while i was reading it. I definitely sped through this one, so i have to listen to it again to catch what i missed. Expeditionary Force is by far my favorite series, so I guess you have to temper my exuberance. I mean Craig could probably defecate on my coffee table, and I would probably ta...

How many times can I use the word awesome?Seriously, this book is awesome. Unlike previous books now the thing in danger is no other than Skippy himself. The worm is back and he's out of options. He doesn't even have his awesome capabilities anymore. This little change in circumstances makes this book even more interesting than the rest. Before, Skippy could just deus ex machina whatever Joe needed for his monkey brained idea and we'd have an awesome action scene (not that I am complaining, I lo...

Wow, how exciting was this book. By now I am used to the author's amazing ability to think of really bad circumstances that happen and keep happening to his characters but the reason I rate this book higher than the last is because in this one they start out in a bad situation and have to struggle on from there. Whereas in the previous novel they started out strong in a fully charged and equipped ship and the trouble scenes made me think they were just invented to pad out the novel, and because

Keep on going strong. -1 star because there is some repetition in the exposition and I'm tired of that already.

Not as good as the othersI loved the previous books although I started noticing in the previous one more irrelevant chit chat between characters to fill up the pages. In this one the Can and Joe go on and on chit chatting about everything, making me jump off so much of the book. There are possibly so many angles to write about that is sad the author filled the book with endless meanningless talk. In moderation the humor of conversation between this two characters is great but he is overdoing it

FunNot as engaging or interesting as the previous books but still worth the read. I greatly look forward to the next tittle.

OK so not knocking the book because I enjoyed it. Great story, interesting ending and wonderful performance as always by RC Bray on the audible version! But like some others here, I'm starting to wonder where it's gonna lead... Will it be another 30 books or will it end in book 6-7? Not because I don't enjoy the characters, but more that it's starting to remind me of how I felt about the TV show Lost. So many mysteries, and it was so awesome at the start but then it was like, hey keep following

While I loved this book overall, I feel it suffered from some pacing issues, and felt like a "bridge" between story arcs, with a lot of backstory and foreshadowing, but very little plot advancement and weak characterization. I would have ended the book at chapter 24 / 82% at around 400 pages. The remaining chapters (26+ / 85% / about 80 pages) would then have made up the beginning of Book 6, as they did not fit thematically or temporally with the rest of the book, but do set the stage for the ne...

This time, we really got some serious suspense. I don't know this author well enough yet (even after 5.5 books!) to know if he's going to really kill off a character or not. I'm usually pretty sure he won't, but you can just never be sure and that helped the plot here.But what got me most of all was the laughing. I laughed out loud so many times during this particular book in the series that I knew it was going to warrant 5 stars. Say what you want about predictability and a recycled plot - it w...

The series continues apace as the consequences of curiosity finally catch the cat (or beer can) and lead our erstwhile indomitable Skippy humbled - or at least as humbled as his awesomeness can allow. The merry band of pirates’ being as snake bitten as they are, Skippy’s misadventure couldn’t come at a worse possible time as they find themselves bounced from one impossible conundrum to the next before ultimately risking it all to go where no one has gone before (well, more technically, every adv...

O M G! Skippy and Joe do it again.It took me a while to get back to this book series, and I really missed Joe and the Merry Band of Pirates. They didn't disappoint. I laughed. I worried about them. And, I wanted to praise their efforts. The sarcastic humor makes me laugh. This is one of my top three favorite book series of all time. Mr. Alanson, you need to get someone else to clean out the garage. You are an awesome storyteller, and I will keep reading your work.

I'm still enjoying this series, but overall I'm starting to wear on the repetitive pattern: Pirates get in trouble. Skippy can't figure out a way out. Joe finds a solution that Skippy thinks is crazy but will work. Rinse, lather, repeat.Mostly, this installation had some enjoyable moments, but it's starting to seem like it was just hitting a big reset button with little actual plot advancement, and that's a little sad to me, since there's some nice plot concepts lurking within the background of

What can I say about this book that hasn't been said by countless other reviews that still give it 4 and 5 stars... this series sort of feels like it's draining the life out of me. There is 👏 JUST 👏 SO 👏 MUCH 👏 FILLER. How many times can we repeat the same story arcs? The thing that kills me is that I like the overall idea... A lot. The first book felt so awesome because it was clever and fun and hadn't had a pattern to copy before it. I feel like I could write the rest of these books by copying...

Pointless actionI can't read anymore of this series. A mid-twenties idiot who had no clue why he was fighting in Africa, is still acting the moron. He defers to a U.N. official whom he recognized has no grasp of the reality the pirates face. He doesn't accept responsibility for his decisions but is still making them. The AI is at least a little insane but at least it is interesting.The immaturity of the MC doesn't reflect well on the 10th mountain division (which I think is still a real thing) o...

Fun readThe plot is twisted and ever changing. The relationship between the hero and the antagonist gets a little redundant but funny.