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Confusion

Revisado: 04-03-24

Not suotable for audio. There are to many names, factions, etc. I got lost early on.
But there is a good story here, even if it is a little too close to "Mass Effect"🙂

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The perfect narration

Revisado: 03-27-24

Dark and dripping of human evil, but it still has a heart. Murder, racism, fantatical christianity and the worst of humanity blends together in the town of Charon where a sheriff has to solve an unimaginable crime before the town, and his soul, falls apart.
The narration lifts this excellent book up to another level. This is the best I've heard/read in a long time. Highly recommended, but be warned: This is brutal and might not be for everyone.

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Bad, just very, very, bad

Revisado: 01-14-24

Badly written, the characters are ridiculous, the plot is as believable as a flat earth conspiracy, it is all just terrible. The narrator is OK when he narrates, but the voices he uses sound like parodies (one sounds exactly like the main character in "King of the Hill")

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What a narrator!

Revisado: 10-17-23

The story was not quite what I expected (expected more from the courtroom), but I still enjoyed it. The story might not be that special but Sissy Spaceks narration is among the best I have ever heard. She was the perfect choice for this book 🙂

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Smart people actong like morons

Revisado: 04-15-23

The idea is not bad, it's been done (better) before but still, not bad. Moronic scientist create something they can't control and shit hits the fan.

The book suffers from one thing on particular: I didn't vare about anyone. Several characters are introduced but they never become more than names.

The narration is fine, but maybe a little dull.

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Sticks the landing

Revisado: 02-04-23

This is the last of nine books in this series, and it does not disappoint. I will not go into the story (you need to read/listen to the other eight first anyway 🙂) but I can say that the stakes are high and the action intense as the fate of humanity is decided.
Many series struggle at the finish line, luckily that is not the case here 😁

Mark Boyett is a perfect match for Dalzelles writing.

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Heart warming and heart breaking

Revisado: 11-16-22

Grant tells the story of his life with dialect coach Joan Washington while at the same time describing her last years battling cancer.
Grant is funny, and his love for his late wife radiates through his words. In the same way his grief and loss hits you like a punch to the gut.

Through the book he speaks of other famous people, but not a bad word is said about anyone you can identify. Actors Melissa McCarthy and Gabriel Byrne comes out of his story in a very positive way.

While Grant does not impersonate others he effortlessly swaps between different accents and dialects (maybe he learned from his wife:)).

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Unoriginal, inconsistent and far, far, too long.

Revisado: 08-07-22

It starts okay, and it seems promising. Then nothing happens... Yes, there are passages that work, but most of the time it's just words, words, words. Why use a sentence when you can make it into a chapter? And that character that seemed so important, yeah, she serves no purpose.
The magic changes whenever the story needs it to change and is one big mess.
On the plus side it is not obsessed with the sexuality of its characters as a lot of new fantasy appeares to be.
The narrator is good, but why does one of the young girls sound like a chainsmoking old man with asthma?

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One major flaw

Revisado: 07-10-22

This story is told by an AI, a robot. What hinders this book from being really good is that you never get the sense that an AI is telling the story. Brittle, the narrator, and the other robots are too human. In "Children of Time" the story is told through the eyes of a spider, and it feels completely alien, but here the narrator just feels human.

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What a mess!

Revisado: 01-19-22

The narration is wonderful🙂

Sadly, this is a disjointed, jumbled, mess of a story. It has the focus of a story written by a small child. New characters, new locations, new ideas, new timelines, new perspectives and just to make it worse - alternate realities.
It's a story about everything and nothing. It started promising, but soon the author gets lost in his own story in his attempt to be clever. He writes well, I'll give him that, but the story is a trainwreck.

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