Loretta Sylvestre

Stellar.

Revisado: 09-12-20

Already among my favorite authors, Martinez exceeds my admittedly high exoectations in this work. Story, characterization, and world-building here are all above and beyond the ordinary. With excellent narration bringing the best to light, I highly recommend this brief but significant tale.

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Exceptional.

Revisado: 08-29-20

A rare and true treasure. The author has woven a tapestry from two strands of story. The narration is flawless. I highly recommend this book, but not for casual listening. Be involved.

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great story and narrstion.

Revisado: 07-14-20

Continues a great series and doesn't disappoint. Surprise twist at the end. I recommend it.

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Good book by a sometimes great author.

Revisado: 06-07-20

I enjoyed the book, especially in those active or more emotional sections where the science-potentials come alive. I did find my mind wandering at times, which was never the case with some other works by this author. The ending is a logical stopping point, I think, rather than an ending--which is okay. The narrstion was brilliant at times, a bit sleepy at others. I recommend it for true sci-fi fans.

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Another great book.

Revisado: 10-03-19

Rhys Ford and Greg Tremblay team up perfectly fir tge Kai Gracen series. The latest installment is an excellent listen.

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Excellent

Revisado: 08-14-19

Suspense, horror, investigation, pathos, and even romance--with just the right touch of humor--all very well written and delivered wonderfully by the narrator. A great addition to one of my favorite series.

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Fabulous in every way.

Revisado: 05-07-19

Fabulous. A great story, an amazing world, wonderful characters. The ship mistress is one of the most real, relatable characters I've read. Heart-rending developments in places, but needed in order to bring about the strong firward-looking ending. I recommend this to lovers of quality fiction. And the narration? Absolutely perfectly delivered in a strong, effective female voice.

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Fabulous complexity

Revisado: 05-01-19

This is an enormous story. Hamilton weaves a complex tapestry from threads that seem at first too diverse to belong together. Although at times the detail slows the story down a bit, a small application of patience provides a payoff, because there's always a reason the author took the reader down that road. Hamilton has developed ideas about the possible futures of today's science and technology, and created from them a credible, cohesive future reality that includes a burgeoning intetstellar human society. He's taken character types and story tropes pleasingly familiar to readers, like detectives, wives, husbands, playboys, doctors, moguls, revolutionaries, zealots, and overachievers, and placed them in a world simultaneously strange and familiar. Through it all, the characters remain human. Despite tech that provides enhanced perception, their lives--filled with fears, needs, joys, and love--are our lives, only (as they shoukd be in great fiction) larger than life.

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Religious propaganda--DNF

Revisado: 04-09-19

I would rarely review a book I didn't finish. Not my cup of tea? Fine. Usually not a basis for review. But when a book is touted as epic fantasy and the first hour or more is a thinly disguised pseudo-Christian catechism, I think it's only fair to let people know. It's possible that if I kept listening the story would evolve, but if so the author made a poor choice with the opening. The narrator had a lovely delivery. That's not enough to make me listen to more.

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Truly creative storytelling

Revisado: 04-07-19

Both author and narrator get raves. Excellent mystery elements, spec fic, unobtrusive character development. As close as a story can get to unique.

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