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Taken to the Stars #6
Home of the Brave
Charlie Travers has been away from home for a long time, fighting to free the galaxy from the tyranny of the Anguilar Empire.
But now the Anguilar know where that home is...and it's only a matter of time before they set their sights on Earth, intent on conquest and enslavement.
Charlie doesn't have enough troops or supplies to stop them. And there's only one place he can get them.
The one place the Anguilar are intent on conquering. Charlie has to go back to Earth...and hope, after all this time, that it's still...
The Home of the Brave.
But now the Anguilar know where that home is...and it's only a matter of time before they set their sights on Earth, intent on conquest and enslavement.
Charlie doesn't have enough troops or supplies to stop them. And there's only one place he can get them.
The one place the Anguilar are intent on conquering. Charlie has to go back to Earth...and hope, after all this time, that it's still...
The Home of the Brave.
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418 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 21, 2024
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April 28, 2024
FREEING THE GALAXY IS NOW A BATTLE FOR EARTH AND SURVIVEL DEPENDS ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
DEPENING ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT & CONGRESS, HOW CAN THAT GO WRONG?
This is a very great book and series that anyone who is a fan of Sci-Fi and action-packed stories you'll going to love HOME OF THE BRAVE (TAKEN TO THE STARS book 6) by J.N. Chaney and Rick Partlow. As always with J.N Chaney and Rick Partlow, this book is very well written, the characters are well defined, it's action-packed throughout, full of suspense, hardships, loss as well as gains. You will find yourself routing for Charlie, Laranna, Val, Gib, Dani, and the rest of the Resistance as they take the fight to the Anguilar to free The know galaxy from enslavement and oppression.
I really enjoyed this book and this series so far and can't wait of the next book to come out. I hope you will find yourself enjoying it also.
DEPENING ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT & CONGRESS, HOW CAN THAT GO WRONG?
This is a very great book and series that anyone who is a fan of Sci-Fi and action-packed stories you'll going to love HOME OF THE BRAVE (TAKEN TO THE STARS book 6) by J.N. Chaney and Rick Partlow. As always with J.N Chaney and Rick Partlow, this book is very well written, the characters are well defined, it's action-packed throughout, full of suspense, hardships, loss as well as gains. You will find yourself routing for Charlie, Laranna, Val, Gib, Dani, and the rest of the Resistance as they take the fight to the Anguilar to free The know galaxy from enslavement and oppression.
I really enjoyed this book and this series so far and can't wait of the next book to come out. I hope you will find yourself enjoying it also.
April 29, 2024
“And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Adrenaline-fueled narrative… that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. It held my attention from start to finish… kept me amped-up by the constant action and suspense… it's a fast-paced story, and it is flipping awesome! I love this series!
Can’t wait for Road of Vengeance #7!
Adrenaline-fueled narrative… that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. It held my attention from start to finish… kept me amped-up by the constant action and suspense… it's a fast-paced story, and it is flipping awesome! I love this series!
Can’t wait for Road of Vengeance #7!
April 26, 2024
HOO-RAH!
Excuse if my reference to a grunt
isn't correct. Just my response to the end of a very enjoyable book. Characters holding well..storyline compelling..just what I like. Looking forward to the next!
Excuse if my reference to a grunt
isn't correct. Just my response to the end of a very enjoyable book. Characters holding well..storyline compelling..just what I like. Looking forward to the next!
April 21, 2024
Too much politics
I like to read these books to take me away from all the political b.s. that we live with every day. Half the book was government argumentative stuff. Kinda silly and boring.
I like to read these books to take me away from all the political b.s. that we live with every day. Half the book was government argumentative stuff. Kinda silly and boring.
May 11, 2024
Great but so sad. 😢
I literally hate to lose characters. Hate it. Despise it. I’m not going to sabotage readers and giveaway too much but I’m so sad.
The writing is great as usual. There’s one particular incident that doesn’t sit particularly well since I don’t feel like that’s the way things would normally go or be handled, yet the situation as written allowed it to play out in the way it did and with deathly consequences and all it’s drama. I understand characters die but I just wish that for it to be written in the most believable way, situations, actions, etc.; otherwise, it’s just really unfortunate. IMO
Anyway, I was glad to see the gang back and as everyone knows from the last book, they were headed to Earth and so that’s our setting in this book. I think many will enjoy it just because they can relate to so much of writing: the beaurocracy, the backstabbing that is so much of not only the government politicians but also within business and society, plus social differences, social media impacts, conspiracy fanatics and just so much more. Enjoy!
I literally hate to lose characters. Hate it. Despise it. I’m not going to sabotage readers and giveaway too much but I’m so sad.
The writing is great as usual. There’s one particular incident that doesn’t sit particularly well since I don’t feel like that’s the way things would normally go or be handled, yet the situation as written allowed it to play out in the way it did and with deathly consequences and all it’s drama. I understand characters die but I just wish that for it to be written in the most believable way, situations, actions, etc.; otherwise, it’s just really unfortunate. IMO
Anyway, I was glad to see the gang back and as everyone knows from the last book, they were headed to Earth and so that’s our setting in this book. I think many will enjoy it just because they can relate to so much of writing: the beaurocracy, the backstabbing that is so much of not only the government politicians but also within business and society, plus social differences, social media impacts, conspiracy fanatics and just so much more. Enjoy!
April 26, 2024
Taken to the stars great series.
Great and fantastic story telling. I really enjoy this series, and that it's a Space Adventure with morals and integrity.
Great and fantastic story telling. I really enjoy this series, and that it's a Space Adventure with morals and integrity.
April 29, 2024
Another great installment
Book 6 is fast paced, full of surprises and an unexpected ending. Although the science is a bit disappointing, the story more than compensates for that. The means by which the news of alien life is delivered to Earth was creative.
Book 6 is fast paced, full of surprises and an unexpected ending. Although the science is a bit disappointing, the story more than compensates for that. The means by which the news of alien life is delivered to Earth was creative.
December 28, 2024
So, the facts facing Charlie Travers is that the Anguilar knows where Earth is and they are going to go after that planet sometime in the very near future. The fact that one single planet can produce enough food for eight billion people is enough of an incentive for the Anguilar to want to conquer said planet so it can export that food to it Empire. There is nothing to stop them from doing jus that. Earth doesn’t even know that the galaxy is populated far more than they can or even could imagine. Charlie needs to change that, but it certainly isn’t going to be easy.
Charlie doesn’t want to cause a mass panic an “the aliens have landed” situation would cause. He wants to try and be a little subtle if possible. Sitll, there are others of his crew think that landing a Vanguard fighter on the White House lawn would get thing started off quickly. Fortunately, Charlie knows the humans better than most of his alien friends so he’s pretty sure that’s not the way to do what needs to be done. He has a friend, George Barnaby, a now retired General and Deputy National Security Advisor to the President, and Charlie is going to go look him up and ask for his help.
Keep in mind that when Charlie left the Earth, he was twenty-five years old. He was in stasis for another thirty-five and since then about two more years have passed. So Charlie should be about sixty, but he definitely looks and feels like he’s twenty-seven since he didn’t age in the stasis pod. Of course his friend George didn’t have a stasis pod so when he opens his front door, Charlie is looking at a middle-aged to old man. Now trying to convince George that he is the same Charlie that went missing thirty-seven years ago was a challenge. Yet, after a lenghty discussion George was convinced that this was Charlie.
Now about the other part of Charlies’ story where he was abducted and has been with aliens in space took a lot more convincing. Charlie had thought that might be a bigger problem so he brough Giblet, the Varnell, with him along with Dani, and Val. Giblet was definitely an alien but not so alien that he would scare the day-lights out of anyone that saw him. Still, it did take a little more to convince George that what Charlie was telling him was the truth.
Eventually, George was sold on the whole story and he volunteered to take Charlie and his friends to see his boss, the National Security Advisor. A meeting was setup so George loaded everyone in his personal SUV and began driving them to the White House. The story was that the National Security Advisor also had to be sold on Charlie’s story before taking him to see the President of the United States. Charlie kind of understood that but he was aware that they were wasting time. Then a whole lot of time got wasted.
George’s SUV was suddenlty surrounded by a bunch of other black SUVs with guys in dark suits and sun glasses jumping out with guns showing. While Charlie and his friends hadn’t planned on using their weapons, they were armed. So everyone, including George, was hustled out of Georges car, searched, relieved of their weapons, handcuffed and then placed in one of the big black SUVs. They were then hustled to a non-descript building where they were split up and each taken to a small interrogation room. Needless to say, Charlie soon realized he was dealing with scared bureaucrats that really didn’t know what they were really doing.
He eventually met the National Security Advisor who told Charlie that if he would prove who he was by showing him some of his advanced technology, like the shuttle Charlie had used to get down to the planet, then he might actually believe his story. So, Charlie volunteered to go get the shuttle, which was camoflaged invisible in a little league ballpark, and fly it back to Joint Base Andrews. That was pretty dumb of Charlie. He was told to take a pilot with him and another Marine as an escort.
They found the suttle unharmed exactly where it was put, boarded it and proceeded to go to Joint Base Andrews. Charlie was to find his friends all there and then they would supposedly proceed to the White House since the National Security Advisor would now be convinced of Charlie’s story. Only that’s not what happened. As soon as they landed at an out of the way hanger, Charlie found a large Marine pistol pointed at him telling him to leave shuttle. He didn’t find his friends but did find himself in another interrogation room.
So Charlie found what it was like to have to work with bureaucrats who didn’t like what they were hearing. They thought that if Charlie and his friends quietly went away, then their problems would also go away. Charlie is going to have to find another wasy to convince these people of the dangers they faced. It wasn’t going to be easy, but they had to get this done. Charlie needed the United States to commit personnel and their technology to enable his resistance army to continue to fight the Anguilar. Charlie hoped that the Earth wasn’t attacked by the Anguilar before they could put up some kind of defense, but that wasn’t going to happen. The Anguilar had already arrived.
Charlie should have known that convincing government bureaucrats and then politicians of anything was going to be a major undertaking. Even if he did get his message across, would they do anything to help themselves and him and just how long would their efforts take. Charlie knew they didn’t have long so things needed to get done. We’ll find out how much was actuall accomplished trying to get Earth into the fight in the next book, “Road of Vengeance”, now available on Amazon.
Charlie doesn’t want to cause a mass panic an “the aliens have landed” situation would cause. He wants to try and be a little subtle if possible. Sitll, there are others of his crew think that landing a Vanguard fighter on the White House lawn would get thing started off quickly. Fortunately, Charlie knows the humans better than most of his alien friends so he’s pretty sure that’s not the way to do what needs to be done. He has a friend, George Barnaby, a now retired General and Deputy National Security Advisor to the President, and Charlie is going to go look him up and ask for his help.
Keep in mind that when Charlie left the Earth, he was twenty-five years old. He was in stasis for another thirty-five and since then about two more years have passed. So Charlie should be about sixty, but he definitely looks and feels like he’s twenty-seven since he didn’t age in the stasis pod. Of course his friend George didn’t have a stasis pod so when he opens his front door, Charlie is looking at a middle-aged to old man. Now trying to convince George that he is the same Charlie that went missing thirty-seven years ago was a challenge. Yet, after a lenghty discussion George was convinced that this was Charlie.
Now about the other part of Charlies’ story where he was abducted and has been with aliens in space took a lot more convincing. Charlie had thought that might be a bigger problem so he brough Giblet, the Varnell, with him along with Dani, and Val. Giblet was definitely an alien but not so alien that he would scare the day-lights out of anyone that saw him. Still, it did take a little more to convince George that what Charlie was telling him was the truth.
Eventually, George was sold on the whole story and he volunteered to take Charlie and his friends to see his boss, the National Security Advisor. A meeting was setup so George loaded everyone in his personal SUV and began driving them to the White House. The story was that the National Security Advisor also had to be sold on Charlie’s story before taking him to see the President of the United States. Charlie kind of understood that but he was aware that they were wasting time. Then a whole lot of time got wasted.
George’s SUV was suddenlty surrounded by a bunch of other black SUVs with guys in dark suits and sun glasses jumping out with guns showing. While Charlie and his friends hadn’t planned on using their weapons, they were armed. So everyone, including George, was hustled out of Georges car, searched, relieved of their weapons, handcuffed and then placed in one of the big black SUVs. They were then hustled to a non-descript building where they were split up and each taken to a small interrogation room. Needless to say, Charlie soon realized he was dealing with scared bureaucrats that really didn’t know what they were really doing.
He eventually met the National Security Advisor who told Charlie that if he would prove who he was by showing him some of his advanced technology, like the shuttle Charlie had used to get down to the planet, then he might actually believe his story. So, Charlie volunteered to go get the shuttle, which was camoflaged invisible in a little league ballpark, and fly it back to Joint Base Andrews. That was pretty dumb of Charlie. He was told to take a pilot with him and another Marine as an escort.
They found the suttle unharmed exactly where it was put, boarded it and proceeded to go to Joint Base Andrews. Charlie was to find his friends all there and then they would supposedly proceed to the White House since the National Security Advisor would now be convinced of Charlie’s story. Only that’s not what happened. As soon as they landed at an out of the way hanger, Charlie found a large Marine pistol pointed at him telling him to leave shuttle. He didn’t find his friends but did find himself in another interrogation room.
So Charlie found what it was like to have to work with bureaucrats who didn’t like what they were hearing. They thought that if Charlie and his friends quietly went away, then their problems would also go away. Charlie is going to have to find another wasy to convince these people of the dangers they faced. It wasn’t going to be easy, but they had to get this done. Charlie needed the United States to commit personnel and their technology to enable his resistance army to continue to fight the Anguilar. Charlie hoped that the Earth wasn’t attacked by the Anguilar before they could put up some kind of defense, but that wasn’t going to happen. The Anguilar had already arrived.
Charlie should have known that convincing government bureaucrats and then politicians of anything was going to be a major undertaking. Even if he did get his message across, would they do anything to help themselves and him and just how long would their efforts take. Charlie knew they didn’t have long so things needed to get done. We’ll find out how much was actuall accomplished trying to get Earth into the fight in the next book, “Road of Vengeance”, now available on Amazon.
May 2, 2024
Charlie tries to persuade Earth to prepare for the Anguilar.
Charlie knows its only a matter of time before the Anguilar come for Earth and that Earth may need to go on the offensive. He goes down to try and communicate with the President together him onside, but of course things don't go according to plan.... Human nature (and paranoia) derails their initial attempts and fake news dogs them with later attempts...
This tale is a great insight into modern day Man and how mankind would probably react to aliens... There are battles from unlikely sources, double crosses, sacrifices, unexpected (or perhaps not?) Events, romance, political quagmires and much more to make this an entertaining and unfortunately highly believable tale....!
A great read in the Taken to the Stars series.
Charlie knows its only a matter of time before the Anguilar come for Earth and that Earth may need to go on the offensive. He goes down to try and communicate with the President together him onside, but of course things don't go according to plan.... Human nature (and paranoia) derails their initial attempts and fake news dogs them with later attempts...
This tale is a great insight into modern day Man and how mankind would probably react to aliens... There are battles from unlikely sources, double crosses, sacrifices, unexpected (or perhaps not?) Events, romance, political quagmires and much more to make this an entertaining and unfortunately highly believable tale....!
A great read in the Taken to the Stars series.
June 7, 2025
Stars and Stripes Forever for the Home of the Brave
Charlie returns to Earth to visit his childhood country and to try to convince Congress and the President that the dangers of invasion by conquering alien forces from the stars were a much more real and dangerous threat than the Russians.
Technology and the weapons available to the existing worlds in space far achieved any on earth. Although the Earth was amazingly productive in food and products, the thought of aliens taking over all governments on Earth was shocking, the use of slave labor and slave military forces was enough to strike fear into previously confident natives of Earth
Charlie returns to Earth to visit his childhood country and to try to convince Congress and the President that the dangers of invasion by conquering alien forces from the stars were a much more real and dangerous threat than the Russians.
Technology and the weapons available to the existing worlds in space far achieved any on earth. Although the Earth was amazingly productive in food and products, the thought of aliens taking over all governments on Earth was shocking, the use of slave labor and slave military forces was enough to strike fear into previously confident natives of Earth
July 14, 2024
Progress but slowly
Will earth stand and fight. Or more importantly will the USA. Unusually for this sort of scenario, the request is not for earth, but just the US to defend, reason being the US military is better organised and with better tech. Seems a lame reason. Many other countries have as a good a tech, but are just smaller, they have the numbers and they have the money
Any way. No real surprises in how it goes, but the conundrum at the end, is whether the Creators are as supportive as originally thought, or being far more manipulative of both sides in the war
Will earth stand and fight. Or more importantly will the USA. Unusually for this sort of scenario, the request is not for earth, but just the US to defend, reason being the US military is better organised and with better tech. Seems a lame reason. Many other countries have as a good a tech, but are just smaller, they have the numbers and they have the money
Any way. No real surprises in how it goes, but the conundrum at the end, is whether the Creators are as supportive as originally thought, or being far more manipulative of both sides in the war
May 3, 2024
So I gave it two stars based on the last quarter of the book which was good. The first three quarters of this book were horrible and a complete waste of time. The author apparently only had enough material for the end of this book and decided to wing it for the rest. He obviously rushed this out and was not ready to write this. I almost gave up several times. I cannot express how mind numbingly awful the majority of this book was.
May 12, 2024
I'm really enjoying this series
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
September 20, 2024
These stories are better than Star Treck
Loved the story development,the surprises, and realistic combat scenes along with simplicity of heroes and heroines to do well.
Yes it is hard to put this down, even for dinner.
Loved the story development,the surprises, and realistic combat scenes along with simplicity of heroes and heroines to do well.
Yes it is hard to put this down, even for dinner.
May 5, 2024
Waiting
Waiting for the next shoe to drop. Love the characters and the interaction with them. Anticipation, great build up and yes, waiting, to see how it unfolds! Awesome series!
Waiting for the next shoe to drop. Love the characters and the interaction with them. Anticipation, great build up and yes, waiting, to see how it unfolds! Awesome series!
June 27, 2024
Ok, just as i was getting ready "boom" book ended" ok I'm hook when the next book?
July 26, 2024
Top Notch Science Fiction!
August 18, 2024
4.5 / 5
January 15, 2025
excellent work
Story as ever continues and I for one love it. Yes read the whole series. Make sure you do and ensure you leave a great review.
Story as ever continues and I for one love it. Yes read the whole series. Make sure you do and ensure you leave a great review.
May 20, 2025
Highly recommended
Awesome story . Very Believable action and characters and realistic scenes. I am quite looking forward to the next book.
Awesome story . Very Believable action and characters and realistic scenes. I am quite looking forward to the next book.
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