Kate

Entertaining

Revisado: 08-11-21

Loved this sci-fi. It’s packed with believable details without being full of boring techno-babble. Bob the immortal robot spaceship has a quirky personality and a fun sense of humour. He uses his software and engineering knowledge from life in the 21st century to outsmart the humans who created him from a frozen body into an AI machine. Really interesting concept.

The narrator sounded a lot like Tom Hanks, and did a great job.

My one gripe is that all of the main characters are Bob - essentially the same person cloned. There are zero interesting female characters, and only a few other interesting make characters.

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Loved it

Revisado: 07-28-21

This story had just the right amount of girl power, romance and action. At first it seems a little unbelievable and ridiculous, but (without spoiling it), it makes sense in the end. The narrator was great without going over the top on pirate voices. A fun one to listen to.

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Great book

Revisado: 06-07-21

I’m not sure if ‘great’ is the right word for such a sad story, but this is a harrowing story beautifully told. Includes vivid descriptions of poverty, child neglect and abuse (so trigger warning). The stories are carefully peeled back with layers of now and memory flashbacks, and give a very convincing picture of a fictional troubled family (at least I think it’s fictional - it all seems very real). Realistic, in-depth characterisation, and the audible reading was very well done too. Five stars

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Absolutely loved it

Revisado: 01-06-21

Faced paced action fantasy from beginning to end. There are giant monsters to escape from, sadistic mercenaries to flee from, twisted power-hungry lords and ladies deploying whole armies after them and this motley group of bastards on the run to save their own lives and that of the princess among them.

Plenty of plot twists, murder and backstabbing to keep things interesting and a bit of romance thrown in there too. The lead character, Tilla, is a likeable strong female protagonist. She must decide between the loyalty she feels to her new found friends and the loyalty she feels to her father and her lifelong yearning for his love and approval. The other main characters were a little stereotypical for my liking, but I grew to like them none the less.

This is the first full audiobook I’ve ever listened to, and the narration was great, however I gave that part four stars instead of five because I found some of the accents and voices off-putting. The princess sounded like a cartoon care bear from the 80’s, which made me visualise an annoying airhead (which, granted, she is depicted to be at the beginning of the story), and the spunky warrior was given an irritating fake accent. In my own head, if I were the one reading the book, they’d have sounded completely different.

The story reads like a YA, although I’m not sure of the actual classification. It’s very violent and includes an intimate love scene, but these are way tamer than in some other YA books I’ve read.

Absolutely loved it, and I can’t wait to move on to the city of bastards next.

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