As a fan of the mecha "genre" since I was just a teenager, I came to the stark realization not long ago that I've never read a book with mechs in it. That seemed like an enormous oversight until I looked into it and realized there really aren't that many of them out there. So I poked around, found a few, and Fighting Iron ended up on my short list of things to read. And, well, I sort of wish it hadn't. In the writing community there's a constant discussion regarding plotting/pantsing. For those ...

A new future were no countries just mini waring city states and regions a future after many major wars and fighting between the regions and large ranches that has risen from the ashes. The characters you meet are both good and bad, human and non-human and some who are part human and machine the the main character a battle machine and an advance AI. During the wars there were many types of AI`s and varies type of battle machine after the war most were destroyed as junk or sold to farmers to help ...

All the stars! Some of my favourite personalities from the Apex trilogy were actually Mech AI’s, so I was delighted to be introduced to another Mech AI in Fighting Iron. The main character is great, the bad guys are supremely despotic, and I love the setting, which is a perfect blending of Old West & Futuristic Sci-Fi. I don’t even mind the absence of zombies.

Clay MacAulay is a mech pilot, who finds himself in the middle of a dispute among rival land owners, he and his mech become pawns. This is a good book, after a slow start, it really comes into its own when Clay is reunited with his AI Gibbons.

Fighting IronBy: Jake BibleNarrated by: J. Scott BennettClay and his AI Gibbons need energy for the mech. Clay walks into an area and finds a large amount. After getting kidnapped, he finds how terrible these dictators are. They have to get out and away from these crazy and brutal people. The dictators call themselves service names like General and Commander. They hoard not only energy, mechs, cattle, and they get people to be slaves when the persons can't pay.IThere is a lot here and I don't wa...

So I want to list the good points; the writing style is good, the idea and setting very unique and well done and the Hero and his Companion have a great interaction. There's even a decent plot twist for the final conflict. It was pretty close to being pretty highly rated except for a few problems that drove me nuts. First, the dialouge ranges from fantastic to painfully bad. I know a book like this shouldn't take itself too seriously, but there were a lot of truly terrible dialogue choices. Seco...

This is a really enjoyable, exciting and funny story set a dystopic Western type future. Giant robots (Mechs), quirky characters, revolutionaries, dictators and some insane characters make this story both entertaining and thrilling. The narrator does a first class job of the various accents and personalties, both his male and female voices are believable and he is able to draw you into the story and keep you captivated, creating movie like images in your mind with his voice. This story has adven...

Fighting Iron really caught me by surprise with how good it was. Going by the synopsis, I was expecting a post-apocalyptic story. I was not expecting “Into the Badlands” starring Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man With No Name’ directed by Quentin Tarantino. *mild spoiler ahead*I love a good story with battle-mechs raising hell, but there just ain’t many to choose from. Fighting Iron seemed a good choice in a limited field and I was excited to listen to it. So imagine my dismay when the story opens with the ...

Loved it.

Great story again. Action, gore and mechs make this a fast paced and exciting book. Plenty of people to love and hate, with a flawed hero fighting his way through a difficult future.

Interesting concept to bad it's not a series would like like to know more of his story and how he ended up with a fully armed battle mech plus his travels around the world.