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Great concept, terrible exercise

Revisado: 03-18-23

I moved the idea of combining a superhero book with space opera. This was terrible - the concept was good, but the characters were all dumb as rocks. Blatant bad guys with zero nuance or dimension, stupid over the top and obvious heroes and an overall plot that was just lazy.

The voice acting was good, as usual

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Disappointing shift into pure Mary Sue and misogyny

Revisado: 02-20-22

I really enjoyed Quarter Share, which was a refreshing twist on space opera and trading. In that, Ish was exceptional but likeable. It was nice seeing him find his place and his home.

This one just went gross - he turns into a pure douche. Worse, apparently he is an 18 year old that every woman (each apparently more beautiful than the last) lusts after, regardless of their age - including his boss. He loses all his charm as a character and becomes shallow, superficial and boring.

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NOT a Guided Meditation

Revisado: 01-08-22

Despite the title, this is not a guided meditation. It's just 30 minutes of spoken affirmations, which in the end are more distracting than sleep-inducing. It's exactly the kind of thing thing that makes me hesitate to download meditation audiobooks -pretty clear it was a quick cash grab rather than serious endeavor.

ETA: Please note that almost all of the 5 star reviews were at the same time and clearly paid, which is something I've seen on a few of these meditation books.

Audible, PLEASE crack down on this practice, it's making the entire genre useless.

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Disappointing and dull

Revisado: 11-16-20

I adored the first three books in this series. This one is just boring, with the barest nod to philosophical questions, lots and lots of filler and an almost complete absence of plot. The narrator did his regular excellent job but there's just not enough in the book to support it.

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This isn’t a guided meditation, it is a podcast

Revisado: 02-28-19

I don’t know why audible is advertising this as a guided meditation - two people talking back and forth and and even giving exercises like ‘write down 7 things’ is not a meditation. Glad at least it didn’t cost anything

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Poor narration and a mediocre story

Revisado: 02-28-19

First of all, the narrator of this was pretty much the worst I have listened to in maybe 100 audiobooks. His choices of an offensively stupid valley girl accent for almost all female characters and this weird, sing-song surfer tone for two of the main male POVs was ridiculous. These were supposed to be the heroes and they were turned into unappealing, bland messes.

Second, the story was a little incoherent - POV switched around sometimes mid-paragraph and I felt like the author didn’t really know where he was going with this as a story. Worst, the pacing was so inconsistent and most of the time the thirty party motivations made zero sense. Good concept, mediocre execution.

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Entertaining fluff

Revisado: 01-04-19

There isn’t a lot of depth to this book, but the premise is fun and the narration is fantastic

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Gross, highly unrecommended

Revisado: 01-04-19

This is a misogynistic pile of crap. The women are treated with contempt by both the MC and the author, and it is supposed to be a source of amusement and charm that the MC creepily spies on naked women and pays to have sex with 13/15 year old girls. Naturally, the only ‘strong’ female character is one who practices sex magic - and has no personality behind that.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 01-04-19

This book is so slow and ponderous, with only brief moments of interest. The 2nd person view is well done and the individual threads have the bones or a great story but there is too much repetitious padding and it’s just a frustrating and at 12 hours in it just felt like it wasted my time.

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Engaging and well told

Revisado: 08-06-18

Some nonfiction books are so dry, it can be easy to zone out. That is 100% not the case here. King - and the narrator - did a great job of weaving the narrative together and shedding light on not only the little details, but why they mattered. This is a hard book to listen to because so much of the subject matter is horrifying and ugly, but it should also be mandatory for anyone trying to dismiss the impact of our past on our present.

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