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Too much political soapboxing

Revisado: 01-26-22

An author injecting their politics into their story and worldbuilding is one thing, and to be expected. I can tolerate even profound disagreements when it's woven into a good, believable story.

Chapters after chapters of political rants against the most ludicrous caricatural strawmans, on the other hand, is a bit much. The plot doesn't seem to be serving any purpose except to set up farfetched and idiotic scenarios for the author's political pontificating. It completely overshadowed whatever story there might have been.

I did try to push through in the vain hopes that the author won't keep flogging that poor dead horse, but he was still very much at it when I called it quits about 4 hours in. Perhaps the book ultimately improved afterwards, but to me it was not worth the time investment by the point.

The voice actor did a good job, but he can only work with the material he was given.

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Excellent

Revisado: 10-26-20

A Deadly Education is a tense, fiercely unique narrative with characters you care about rapidly in a very grim setting. I look forward to everything Naomi has in store in this universe for the audience.

The narrator did a great job too, very emotive performance.

If I were forced to give a critique it would be that I personally prefer more descriptions of the surroundings than was provided, but I'm fairly certain that was deliberate to make the reader feel more closed in as it is not a static trait in her other books.

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Great

Revisado: 08-02-20

This is a fun book that has a feeling of safety and homecoming in the center and spreads itself into adventure and peril, without taking itself too seriously. The characters are interesting, dynamic and not copy pasted from other things.

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Terrible

Revisado: 08-02-20

Tedious, uninspired, derivative and the overuse of complete nonsense metaphors makes this read like a middle school creative writing project from a highly disturbed individual.

This book was so bad that I feel personally affronted and lied to by every person and review I read prior to acquisition.

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