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Mild erotica, decent story. Not sci-fi.

Revisado: 02-06-25

A variation on slavery- how will android feel? The domestic abuse story is simplified by the woman being a robot: there is no need to explain why she is in this situation. This is not how an android would think, though. The author describes herself yanked out of the modern world and stuffed into an android shell. There is the usual trope is that men are inherently evil. The narrator can't do male voices well- they are always menacing or severely constipated. Otherwise she sounds fine.

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Tedious. Sci-fi tech of the 1950s.

Revisado: 01-31-25

The first part is reasonably done as hard science sci-fi, but it is also — predictably—hard to read.
The technology is highly outdated or mechanical to the point of silliness.
If you can finish reading this book, there has to be a reward for endurance.

The first half is read by a woman, and all male voices sound like constipated drag queens.
The second narrator sounded fine.

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Good read.

Revisado: 05-07-24

Solid story with intriguing beginning and predictable remainder of the book.
Decent narration, a couple slip ups with voices of characters. Not sure if PA announcement voice adds or subtracts from experience.

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Stale and predictable

Revisado: 04-05-24

This bag of sci fi potato chips feels stale. No new ideas, the ‘big surprise’ was too obvious, perhaps partly due to poor choice of image for book cover.
It seemed more tedious than the prior installments. What is worse, the humor side of narrative did not feel as much fun as in prior books. Incidentally, that part will be lost if book turned inti a show and probably was the most fun of the whole series.
The narrator did a good job reading, but nothing special.

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Adult fairy tale.

Revisado: 03-03-24

A feel-good fairy tale. Complete with magical creature. All characters are positive and kind- hearted.
The best people are, obviously, the two genitors.
Starts a bit slow for simple story like that, but makes you feel good in the end.

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Pleasantly predictable fun.

Revisado: 02-21-24

Third small bag if scifi potato chips. Same ingredients, same flavor. Some parts slightly more tedious

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Fun and simple.

Revisado: 02-15-24

Sci-fi version of potato chips. Familiar and pleasant flavors. Comfort settings, goes well with beer. And unlike real chip, has 0 calories.

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Good action, but tedious and far fetched.

Revisado: 01-12-24

The main style problem is granular description of genes, guns etc. The story takes place 50-100 years in the future, so those cutting edge things the author researched will be obsolete or mundane.
Logically there are a few key flaws, which mar otherwise solid science fiction (not many authors can actually write truly scientific stories).
Main one - time dilation perception. Author amalgamated perceived time slowing in memory with higher neural function and assumed that spreading your attention will cause time to slow down for you in real life. This notion is silly, much like computer, adding more parallel tasks does not improve liner task efficiency.
Another, more philosophical- calculating that humanity is doomed in 100 years is a folly. He is describing world similar to ours now. Just read history of plaques, world wars and such. People were truly evil and their numbers dwindled low many, many times. Would be more believable if there was an asteroid coming or nuclear doomsday clock activated by some superpower- some factor other than humans being flawed.

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2/3 should be edited out

Revisado: 12-16-23

Alien thoughts and biology ideas always interesting. The rest of the book was quite boring fantasy on matters of intergalactic politics, which somehow simply resembles politics inside any third world country.
One of the 3 main characters is completely unnecessary, does not add anything to interesting part.
The narrator overdid with accents and occasionally got confused who she was reading for so accents would blur in the middle of the sentence.

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Entertaining, but flawed

Revisado: 08-06-23

I found this book to be really fun and made me laugh in the car. However, it was very predictable, and the big reveal toward the end of the book was unrealistic. The handling of the situation by the main adult characters was really hard to believe. I still love listening to it though!

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