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The story had potential

Revisado: 07-05-24

The characters were immature and unrealistic. The idea that adults would spend years on their education or training and after emerging from that have the mentality of a 12 to 16 year old (bro she's hot, oh he's a nerd) is ridiculous. It was constantly laced throughout the story and pretty much ruined it for me. It's as though the author never witnessed mature interaction between adults and based characters upon a known peer group he couldn't see past or imagine. Dissappointing. The story had potential. The narration was grating but I believe the narrator was simply animating the childishness of the characters which the author wrote. Dude.

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Horrible, dry, encyclopedic, actionless

Revisado: 04-26-24

If you want a series of textbooks, manuals, useless details and factoids which add nothing whatsoever to a story where everyone sits around and talks like a lecture and no one actually ever does anything this is the book for you. At least for the first 17 chapters at which point I skipped to 20 only to start hearing a lesson on computer processors at which point I quit the book.

There is no useful character development other than lists of facts about the characters. With all the 4 to 5 star reviews out there, there is certainly an audience for this material but I'm not it.

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The saga continues

Revisado: 08-05-23

And book two is just as enthralling as book one. captivating until the end, which brings a twist.

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Wonderful!

Revisado: 07-28-23

It's beem a while since I've given 5 stars across the board. While there are moments one has to suspend disbelief, those were few and the story and narrator kept me glued to the story start to finish. Fantastic

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Searched forbthe narrator and found this

Revisado: 06-15-23

The book just has too much going on. It's Karate Kid. It's a spy novel. It's a science fiction with runaway metal eating bugs (why? would't mankind make plastic eaters long before metal eaters?). It's post apocalyptic but not everywhere! Only in the Southwest around New Mexico. So...why would anyone be living there?

Speaking of New Mexico, it's also an encyclopedia of the state's geography and plants. It's as if the author drove around the state and wrote the story as he went, and not very realistically. These places are way too far apart for the donkey trail. Why would the boy travel so much on donkey back? It doesn't make sense. Why would anyone be dumping metals and attracting deadly bugs along the rivers in a desert biome? I think they'd be dumping in the deserts, not the precious water source. Riparian zones would be the first areas cleaned up IF anyone was really going to live in this now deadly region.

It's also a coming of age story.

It was interestimg enough and the narrator does it justice, but it could be better.

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Stuck with it for three books

Revisado: 07-21-22

I just can't get on board with this book series and it's difficult to pin point.

On the one hand, the story hooked me when a voice asks "Do you want to live?" but the explanation for it all after three books was underwhelming. I didn't care for the delivery of it either, listening through lehthy predictable Architect monolog explaining everything. In fact, there was a mind numbing trend of explaining every single bit of science through ignorant character questions. I think that's why the story needed a 13 year old.

I was somewhat annoyed with the Riverworld copy cat theme. A bunch of people revive on a world from different times, including famous people? Hmm. where gave I heard that before?

Then I was annoyed with the way the story could have been lore from any number of popular video games. sparkle "health packs" raining from the sky like a supply drop in a game.

And I was super annoyed by the performers carefully enunciated robotic speach pattern...for narration AND speach dialog, but oddly not the non human dialog. Then the story even had a line about that and I thought "Yeah. Just..like..you..do..this entire novel"

but ultimately the ending was just completely boring repopulation story with humans behaving just like humans and a whoopee lot of words I didn't need to listen to because I "got it" back in book 1.

I missed a bunch in book 3 from getting distracted or dozing off and normally I'd rewind but in this story I felt like...meh...I didn't really miss anything. And it was actually true. a bunch of words not adding a thi g to an already subpar story that has all the signs of lacking true originality.

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Excellent once again

Revisado: 11-21-20

I love everything about this series and can't wait for more! The combination of the story by Dennis E Taylor and the performance by Ray Porter is unbeatable.

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There are a few implausible aspects

Revisado: 09-26-19

There are a few implausible aspects but worth the listen. the performers voices are strong and gritty but grew on me quickly until I was engrossed in the characters they portrayed. I like that the story was not predictable until the end at which point I began connecting the dots. But that was late enough in the story to be a pleasant discovery rather than an annoyance.

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Unrealistic and immature

Revisado: 08-30-18

It is not the story itself or the topic I had a problem with, it is the lack of realism regarding the emotional and mental maturity of the 7 year old. There were times when narrating from the 7 year old's perspective the language was that of a mature adult with a vast vocabulary and then child babble is inserted here and there to remind us the character is 7.

I found myself wondering at the age and maturity of the author, as well as questioning if the author has any first hand knowledge or has done adequate research on the topics of children, early childhood development, or this particular disorder. They say you should write what you know and in this case, I don't believe the author knows what she is writing about.

It seems as though the author rushed to get a great story idea out without doing the actual work to make it believable. The author is talented but needs more time to mature as a writer.

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Can't stand narration of Holly

Revisado: 08-06-18

I was enjoying the story and thought Will Patton was doing a fantastic job until he introduced Holly. I was hoping she'd disappear soon but after several chapters I couldn't stand listening to the unrealistic intonations anymore.

Sometimes her "voice" was tolerable but the times that it wasn't were intolerable and sounded more like a breathy GLaDOS from the game Portal.

I was hoping I could get the Kindle book and continue by reading but there is no feature to get a discounted Kindle from Audible so now I'm just not going to finish the book at all. At least not now. That's how bad it is. No one talks like that. I was so surprised how far Mr. Patton missed the mark and I see others have made the same observation.

I'm still giving the performance 4 stars even though Holly ruined the book for me because the rest of the narration is so good.

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