Fall with Honor: A Novel of the Vampire Earth (Vampire Earth Series) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

E. E. Knight (Author), Christian Rummel (Reader)

Book Description

Series: Vampire Earth Series | Publication Date: November 15, 2009

Freedom is on the march as the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth takes the offensive. David Valentine has recruited an ad hoc company of former Quisling soldiers to put them through a trial by fire with a successful raid against an enemy armory. Now they’re ready to join forces with a guerrilla army planning to establish a new freehold in the Appalachian Mountains. Valentine knows that a permanent outpost near the East Coast would provide a strategic victory over the Kurians—and he believes that only his old friend and ally Ahn-Kha could possibly be leading the guerrillas on such a daring endeavor. But nothing could prepare Valentine’s fighters for what awaits them at the end of their journey.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

It's 2075 and the fight to liberate Earth from the mysterious Kurians continues in the grim seventh Vampire Earth episode (after Valentine's Resolve). Freedom fighter David Stuart Valentine is determined to overthrow the Kurian Occupation with the help of Sergeant Major Patel, one of Valentine's former key associates, and a ragtag army of humans and alien Grogs. To establish a new "freehold" in the Appalachian Mountains, Valentine and company must fight blood-drinking Reapers, harpies, gargoyles and other evil minions of the invaders. Though there's a clear vision of the courageous resistance fighters, the Kurians are ciphers and too often offstage. Valentine does find time for romance with an old friend and makes a brief, touching visit to his secret charge, Blake, a child Reaper, but this action-heavy episode suffers from battle-fatigue and a mind-numbing grimness to this installment that's more about defeat than victory.
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Review

"Gritty realism, Lovecraftian villains, and boffo action scenes."
-National bestselling author S. M. Stirling

"Compelling pulp adventure."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Hard-hitting action sequences."
-Science Fiction Weekly

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Library edition (November 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1441808450
• ISBN-13: 978-1441808455
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Losing vitality and energy, August 30, 2008

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J. Hulet "John(Fantasy Literature)" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fall with Honor (Vampire Earth, Book 7) (Hardcover)

It's sad to me when the best part of a book is when old characters that you knew put in a cameo appearance. Fall with Honor was a let down to me because Val seems to just going through the motions. There is an interesting mission and there could be interesting characters, but the writing feels like Knight has gotten bored with writing about this subject and doesn't really give it his best.

Book 7 and Val is taking part in an effort to start another area of human control in a Kurian zone. He's worn down, tired, broken to a greater or lesser degree, but for some reason none of that really matters because he is still Val. The folks who surround him seem to be just different iterations of many similar characters that we fought, served with and hated before. It's frustrating because there is so much more to be told about this series.

What really bothers me is that with a little more work and design there is a lot of very interesting things that could be happening. The potential is really great in that Knight has left enough loose ends out there for some great stuff to come of it. I just wish that he would get as deeply involved as it felt like he was in the past.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, bland and a bit too cliche., July 19, 2008

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V. Levin (East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fall with Honor (Vampire Earth, Book 7) (Hardcover)

I've read every book in this series and the Dragon series, and so far have had nothing but praise for Knight.

This book is disappointing.
-What's up with the "let's bring back every major character from other books back"? This idea was poorly executed and becomes a bit too unbelievable.
-The characters are shallow. Compared to previous Valentine books, these guys are just zombies.
-The writing style itself is different. While the previous books were, for the most part, page turners, this one reads as if a boring college professor is discussing a small war in a country you don't care about.
-The main idea behind this book is pointless. Basically, if you don't read this book, you wont miss much.

However, Knight has proved that he can write a good book, and it's way too early to give up on him just because of one bummer.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 6, 2008

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S. Dempsey (Champaign, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fall with Honor (Vampire Earth, Book 7) (Hardcover)

I've followed the vampire earth series for quite some time now. I thought the first 5 were great. However, the last two, Fall with Honor especially, have lost a lot of what made the others fun to read. There's no real excitement or internal struggle. Characters have lost their depth. It feels like Knight has run out of ideas and is just plodding along with the story because he's supposed to.

No good story should be drug on forever.

If you're a fan of the series, I'm sure you'll read it. Just don't expect much. Hopefully the next one will revive the series and turn toward a conclusion.