Another fun adventure with Colonel Joe, Skippy the Magnificent and the Merry Band of Pirates.

Another solid entry in the rapidly expanding Expeditionary Force series, Armageddon is another universe-saving adventure with grunt Joe Bishop and the asshole beer can AI Skippy and their merry bands of space pirates. Yep, you read that right. This is no literature. This is pure, lightweight, unadulterated pulp reading pleasure.And while the book is labeled "Book 8", really it should be read after the subseries - and the Audiodrama "Homefront" - as the order of the books is important here if you...

The end of this book gutted me. It’s the first time I’ve cried in the series and I hope I don’t have to do it again. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the story.

There's a lot to like about this series. The big personalities, the character moments, the high stakes. Yay! But I felt like this book could have benefitted from extra reader feedback before publication. Like--(view spoiler)[Joe Bishop and crew are all upset to learn that the top tier species each have an elder A.I., yet they're all oblivious to the very obvious fact that this puts humans in the running to become a top tier species. Not a single person suggests this? C'mon. (hide spoiler)]Skippy...

Getting staleThe Jhon/Skippy everyone going to die we need awesomess dynamic is getting stale.There are some world building that makes big promises but I foresee no way for the marry band of pirate's to do anything about it.Craig has painted himself into an corner in regards to technology, monkeys can never understand it. Thys here can not be an armada of human ships and epic battles since we can not build the ships.

"You know what Joe Bishop said?" Skippy didn't wait for an answer. "Joe Bishop said 'Hey universe! Hold my beer!'"^Expeditionary Force in a nutshell hahaha!!!Decent continuation but it lacks true progress. Still enjoying the banter and characters. I know that some said it was getting old but honestly I will never get tired of Skippy's jokes and asshole attitude. I feel like I know him personally and love everything about his character. First book in the series to actually tug at my heart strings...

Another in a long line of entertaining sci-fi.I like the direction the storyline is heading. The “pirates” are back and doing some serious damage to the egos of alien d$cks. A little more character development would be nice...learn, adapt,grow. Love the series!

Damn cliffhangers. You're not getting out of it this easily, Craig. You told me to write more, faster, and you're lagging behind. Why don't I have book 9 yet? That simply will not do. Excellent novel again.

Not bad.

NOTE: Before reading this book you might want to listen to the audiobook "Homesfront" and the book "Mavericks: Deathtrap", especially the audiobook as events in that are referred to and you will have no idea what they are talking about (as I did when I first started reading this book directly after finishing book 7). Or just google for a synopsis to get the general idea of what happened.The book starts out after the events of the audiobook "Homefront" and from there the merry band of pirates fly...

I can’t wait for the next one!I’ve always been into military sci-if books. I took a break from reading about three years ago and started back up again about a year and a half ago with the first book in this series. That was awesome because I got to binge read nearly the whole series! I had some down time before this book came out and had been keeping tabs on when it would be released. The wait was worth it. This book was incredibly long compared to other sci-fi books but dang did I immediately w...

I use these EF (audio)books for workout or falling asleep. If I missed 15 minutes here and there, no biggie. I could still follow the narrative as there is not much of the narrative, just on endless and boring and repeating and pretty lame jokes. Here is a universe that could make a for great and diverse story, just use a bit more of imagination, and we end up with a boring sitcom. I am looking for different workout books, no more EF.

The eighth novel in the Expeditionary Force series exceeded my expectations to a level then even Skippy would have trouble calculating. Any long running series has to deal with the need to keep things interesting without falling foul of repeating plot points or making things too stupid to retain the narrative which captured the reader in the first place, Armageddon achieved this.I will admit I was a little lost with all the talk about their previous mission (convinced myself I had skipped a nove...

This one is a game changerThis is one hell of a book. So far, every adventure the Merry Band of Pirates has had to endure was directed towards protecting the Earth secretely. We had a problem (okay, maybe a couple Hundred problems), Joe and Skippy would come up with some far fetched idea and that was that. All the shenanigans would be extremely dangerous, full of tension, but, in the end, prove successful. We'd also get a lot of humor and banter between the pirates and the beer can to defuse tho...

The stakes have been raised and some of the merry band of pirates have eaten their last banana. Finally some real jeopardy in the series, looking forward to the next one.

Skippy, I want to be in your cult!

This book was wonderful.Some people think this series is getting stale, and that there's always some crazy event to react to. This book ups the stakes. There's a reason why this book is called "Armageddon". There are some revelations, and ideas I haven't heard of in other science fiction series.Craig Alanson really portrayed the rivalries between different countries in his series quite well. This series has really good representation and diversity, and alien species feel very unique.This series

Enjoyed reading thisBit repetitive in places but a good shielding lo kdown read. Takes one's mind off all the awful crap going on in the real world.

Joe finally gets his colonel eagle before the Band and now Chocula & 3 other UN '3 stooges', and a beta site inspection team for some 'Earth2' (… Avalon). S doesn't know how to get an Elder wormhole to go outside the galaxy. Check on status of K; find no K worries but the M have blockaded the last wormhole towards Earth. After stealing the necessaries from a dead R world, they wormhole it from the Milky Way to the Sculptor Dwarf galaxy using a passcode S didn't know he had! Find a (too?) perfect...

The beginning of the end?This review contains spoilers.Expeditionary Force: Armageddon is the eighth book the Expeditionary Force series written by Craig Alanson. The book was published in 2019. Armageddon takes place after the conclusion of Renegades. The Flying Dutchman and her crew have discovered that the Earth is unfortunately doomed. Through an unintended consequence the crew of the Flying Dutchman have found that the Maxohlx will be sending a battlegroup to the planet despite the crew's b...