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Only problem is I need more!

Revisado: 11-13-24

This is my favorite book series of all, so I’m biased, but I loved this! Fits in so well with the others off the vibes, writing style, and performance alone. I can only hope that this is the first of many new books because I just want more Area X in my life lol

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Good to listen to while you do stuff

Revisado: 10-13-24

This is like a pulp sci-fi from back in the day, a lot of cool stuff happens, and RC Bray is great as always… but don’t expect a masterpiece or anything life changing lol. Its just a good time, and with that in mind, I give it a solid 4 stars!

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Still my favorite series of all time

Revisado: 10-05-24

After my third time through this trilogy and listening to over a hundred other sci-fi books, this is still my favorite.

The way Jeff can write a chapter that seamlessly bounces between past and present and future just perfectly makes you feel as unbalanced as the characters themselves- you just have to go with the flow and figure stuff out later, and you can totally trust his writing to carry you through.

All narrators are excellent, who knew Pinchot is the eccentric art salesman in Beverly Hills Cop?!

10 out of 5 stars if I could, can’t wait for book 4 and I pray that someone picks up the movies again and stays true to the books this time (though I do still love Annihilation (2018))

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After a disappointing Book 16, Book 17 comes back around!

Revisado: 09-22-24

So thankful that this is back to how the series used to be, the previous book was such a letdown/money grab, while this one recaptures what makes the series great: plot twists, funny, violent, thought provoking, and just fun.

The production was a little wonky at times though, there would be random spots that sounded like they forgot to record the line in the booth, so they had RC Bray call in and recorded the audio that way. This happened like 5 or 6 times in the later parts of the book and really took me out of the zone, hoping this can be fixed via update or something.

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Good but not great

Revisado: 09-11-24

I agree with of the 4 star reviews I’ve seen. While this is GOOD, it is not GREAT like the other books have been. It’s definitely a set up for more stories, which like “yay more Bobiverse!” but I’m also left feeling like nothing really happened in this one…obviously stuff did happen, and without spoiling anything I can say that this entire 12 hour story could be summarized in a single paragraph.

All will be forgiven if we get the next book in a year or less and it’s back to being incredible… I did notice at the end Ray Porter says the audio was copyrighted in 2023, so could it have been recorded a year ago?? Not getting my hopes up, but it would obviously be awesome lol.

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Firmly in the “mid” category

Revisado: 06-04-24

This book is basically the author trying to set a record for plot twists in 1 story, as opposed to trying to write a good story. While the twists start out being cool, each plot point goes by too fast to care about, and eventually I just got tired of it.

So much cringe dialogue, yeah most of the time the MC will say/think something cringe and then immediately be like “but that would be creepy/sexist/wrong” and it’s like- just don’t have him think/say that stuff then??

Capria’s only in the story to be a sex object, she literally doesn’t use her expertise for anything helpful. The constant “I’m in love with her, but the only reason I can give is that she’s hot” is more cringe.

The other female character, Gal, has a great personality and I love her snark, but she’s basically just a plot device- an Uber intelligence that can introduce/explain a new plot twist whenever needed.

Overall I’m bummed because Point Nemo was outstanding and RC Bray is great (as always)

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Absolutely amazing

Revisado: 05-30-24

I haven’t been absolutely sucked into a book like this in a LONG time! I laughed, I was scared, I contemplated life…

You could describe this book as a Jeff Vandermeer novel with a linear plot, and I mean that in the absolute best way possible (Jeff is my #1 fave). Give it a listen, you won’t be disappointed!

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Stick with it and be rewarded

Revisado: 04-02-24

Came to this book after finishing the 7 main Mountain Man books. Here’s my spoiler free take:

The plot is like a mix of Pulp Fiction (it jumps around to many different characters, you’re rewarded with re-watching/listening) and Dogma (an unorthodox yet touching take on The Powers That Be, plus a group of misfits traveling together to save humanity from a spiritual disaster). The story made a lot more sense after I saw a review saying it was like Pulp Fiction.

I lost interest about 5ish hours in, I wasn’t paying enough attention to who each character really was. I felt like if I took notes on characters, I would have loved it. In my defense, a lot of the characters have very similar names ending in “y” (Tony, Danny, Freddy, Lucy, etc) so it’s easy to get mixed up. I took off a star for the story for this aspect. Maybe I’ll realize the “y” names have significance on the second listen?

Overall I’m so glad I stuck with it, because what a rewarding climax and conclusion :)

The reader is a phenomenal talent, I loved PJ from the Three Body Problem books he did (all but the first). Yes he’s way different from RC Bray, but his character voices, accents, and pronunciation are stellar. I will not stand for the slander of PJ in these reviews!

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This one feels like a total cash grab

Revisado: 12-27-23

I absolutely love this series, obviously since I finished 16 books, but this one seemed like a whole lot of nothing with a couple big-ish things that happen throughout. Basically this is all filler to me, and I’m sure they’ll be able to recap the entire book with a 45 second Joe monologue in the sequel. I’ll keep the following as spoiler free as possible, but stop reading now if you are at all spoiler-averse.

The plot of them having kids isn’t used at all, other than a short time of the boys with Joe and I guess another excuse to cut Adams out of the story.

Skippy is weak the entire time, except when he just disappears for a bit and comes back at 120% full power…somehow?

I swear half the story is based on Skipcoin being a meme currency, it’s like all they talk about and it doesn’t do anything for the story except for a weak subterfuge with the Beetles.

The new enemy does 1 interesting thing in the entire story and it’s in the first 1/3rd of the book. Then…that’s basically it, the crew just interacts with the kitties a bit, and at the very end of 16 hours we get a vague idea of what/who the bad guy is.

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The closest thing to Annihilation yet

Revisado: 09-23-23

Annihilation and the Area X trilogy are my favorite audiobooks, so to have a spooky sci-fi story with a trippy timeline and a strong female lead, and the same reader! I loved this book right away. Lots of influence/references to 2001 and Dune, is another way you know it’s good.

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