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Andrew P

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As good as I'd expect, and broader

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-02-24

I'm never not going to enjoy a Cain book, and the regular cast are precisely as good as they always are - the books are great in themselves, and the Audible voice actors never fail to elevate the stories even further.

This anthology uses its format to tell smaller stories: tactical, rather than strategic, engagements; local altercations; nights out gone wrong and stray vignettes. One of many highlights, though, has to be the story told from Jurgen's perspective - one that would never be seen in one of the novels.

Every new release of a Cain story is an instant buy for me, and I have yet to find one that disappoints.

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Excellent as always

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-05-23

The Cain novels are old favourites, and they have yet to disappoint; fortunately, the same goes for the Audible recordings. Perring and Rawlins could not be better fits for their characters, and the other voice actors hold an equally high standard.

I always keep a couple of Audible credits unused so I can get every new Cain book as it's released, and frankly the only complaint I've ever had with them is that they don't appear often enough.

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Excellent as ever

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-27-22

It's a Cain book; everything I expect from it is there, with humour, action and a solid plot. And the Rawlins/Perring team is excellent as always, along with most of the readers Vail cites as supporting sources. The one letdown - and this is, I'm sure, my personal preference rather than anything really wrong with him - is the reader voicing Lawson's fictitious book. Those segments are few and far between, however, and really their only fault is not quite matching the standard set by the rest of the cast.

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As good as I've come to expect

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-18-22

Mitchell's Cain series is excellent, of course - but then, having read all the books in paper form, that comes as no surprise.

It's similarly unsurprising that the Perring/Rawlins team is on form; their performances cemented themselves right from the first book, and frankly I have difficulty imagining other readers as those characters. The additional readers are similarly ideal for the characters, just as those brought on for previous books, and Spooner's Scottish accent in particular just feels right for the character.

All in all, it's exactly what you'd expect. There's action, there's military politicking, there's a quirky romance of sorts, and of course the series' trademark sense of humour runs through the whole thing.

The Cain books have become instant purchases for me; as soon as I see them come out, I get them; I know they'll never disappoint me.

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Well written, well read, but not well aged

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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-29-21

An excellent reading of a well written and often funny book - but much as Fraser makes clear that it's a satire and that Flashman is not supposed to be seen as a hero, it's nevertheless difficult to really enjoy a book with Flashman as a first-person protagonist. He - the character, one must presume, not the author - cheerfully displays many of those traits that were more common among the colonial British tag many would like to believe, and his casual racism and awful treatment of women is made no more palatable as entertainment by its realism.

It's a good book, but even knowing the point Fraser meant to make I just couldn't enjoy it. Perhaps I'll finish listening to it one day, but probably not.

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Distracting

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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-20-21

I'm sure it's good, but the combination of very little explanation, fast speech and loud, distracting background music makes this practically useless.

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Could be great, can't be heard

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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-28-21

The content might be great, for all I know; certainly the author's reading of it seems fine as far as I can tell. Sadly, the sound quality is intolerable - page-turning noises and a tiny, echoey sound quality make it sound like it was recorded on a phone while sitting in a kitchen.

This really needs to be rerecorded in a proper studio with a proper microphone; there's no excuse for this sound quality on a professional release.

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As excellent as I expected

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-28-21

Mitchell's Cain novels are always great entertainment, and this cast has been excellent since book one. I look forward to hearing the same cast read the rest of them.

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Benefits from its narrators

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-07-20

Chances are you already know whether or not you'll enjoy Lovecraft's writing, and of course his more problematic aspects are well known. But the stories are well written cosmic horror in an iconic period of history.

Where this version really shines, however, is in its narrators. The two are Lovecraft enthusiasts, and it shows in the way they engage with the text.

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Not to my taste

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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-11-20

I'm sure this book will be to some people's taste, but it was not to mine. For me, it felt juvenile, an attempt at reenactment an RPG group by someone who'd learned about them from a Chick Tract. Perhaps the author is an avid gamer - but it doesn't come across in the story. It comes across, for me at least, as that Big Bang Theory style of laughing at the neckbeards but with less subtlety...

The redeeming feature is the pretty decent narrator. Which is something, I suppose.

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