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Title: The Queen's Best: A Chronicle of the Best of the Best

Author: Kenneth E. Ingle

Narrator: Ted Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-14

Publisher: Ken Ingle

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Marine Second Lieutenant James Byerley is looking for some action in the seedy side. Instead, he finds a beautiful woman fighting off assailants. The coincidental meeting sets off a lifelong relationship as Byerley discovers he's stumbled onto a coup attempt and has rescued the crown princess.

Rescuing the princess launches Byerley's career, but it also puts him in the crosshairs of the star kingdom's ambitious politicians. Given command of the Queen's elite guard, Byerley molds them into a force capable both of defending the Queen and taking the fight to her enemies. What neither the Queen nor Byerley suspect, though, is that the Queen's enemies have compromised both the kingdom's military and its intelligence.

Battling his nation's enemies forces Byerley into positions outside his zone of comfort - including conducting undercover operations on unstable neighboring planets, designing plans for large-scale space battles, and chasing down traitors. This wasn't the military a young second lieutenant, now Colonel of the Queen's Grenadiers, had signed up for, but becoming the 'Best of the Best' requires going beyond the ordinary.

Author Kenneth Ingle spins a story of military action, political intrigue, and intense emotion. Set generations after the initial exploration of space Ingle depicted in the Contact; series, the human-controlled portion of the galaxy remains a largely lawless place with pirates, rogue planetary governments, and ambitious warlords battling for control. Many of them resent a woman in a position of power and see Byerley as an obstacle to their paths to power.

Members Reviews:

Somewhat Disjointed

I liked the concept when I started the book, but it devolved into a series of predictable scenarios, coupled with incidents that were both contrived and absurd, especially involving the chief villain. There were the usual grammatical errors (principal and principle are not the same word), but my main objections were that most of the book was too pat and there were too many uses of the 'deus ex machina' solution to many dead end scenes: just announce the result.

Likeable story

I liked it. Was a well written story, not an original plot idea but Kenneth did it well.

It shows that the author can write and overall was a good reading experience. Not a book I see myself reading again but was worth the time reading.

A very poor story

This is one of only 2 or 3 books that I've read that I would say are is outright poor. I generally dislike speaking harshly, but in this case I must.

First, while typos can be distracting if they're too prevalent, I typically don't have an issue with them. In this story there are some here and there along an occasional missing word. The main problem with this book is that the characters are none existent. In other words the characters display no actual personality. This is noticeable right from the beginning of the book where the main character rescues the princess. "I heard a female scream. I ran towards where I heard the scream come from. There were three men surrounding a women. I ran towards them and killed the three men, it was easy because I'm the best."

Admittedly, this is not an exact quote, but the actual writing is only slightly better then this paraphrase.

To the author.