Michael Fuchs

Horrid overdone effects, acting, and noise.

Revisado: 02-11-25

Wow, did THAT suck.

Overwrought.
Overacted.
Overused sound effects.
Over-warped voice distortion.
Over-loud score.
Just … Overdone.

I really enjoyed Craig Alanson’s Expeditionary Force books before this one. This farce smacks of some director or producer feeling the need to wrap their name around a reasonable short story by slapping paint, clowns, and loud music on it to claim they contributed value. Horrid.

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Refreshing, creative, timely

Revisado: 11-26-24

Possible Spoiler Alert.
This is my first read by Andrew Turpin, on a suggestion from Audible. It was refreshingly fast paced and positive storytelling that never ceased driving forward. It was very topical and timely in tackling the weaknesses in the US voting system. A very creative tack on exploiting mid levels of a bureaucracy. Also a creative idea using deniable intelligence asset(s). A good and enjoyable read.

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Eerily prescient. Less SF than prognosis.

Revisado: 08-10-24

Another excellent book by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A frightening fable of where our planet very well may be going in the all too near future. What if climate change continues unabetted: who will inherit the world, and how?

Wonderful narrator voice but too shrill and frantic for the protagonist in times of stress.

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Interesting Story, Hard To Understand Narration.

Revisado: 07-04-24

The storyline was complex and well crafted, but I could not enjoy this audiobook. The narrator was of top quality, but the various patois and heavy (I guess) Creole speech throughout were very hard to follow and caused many story points to be missed by me. The narrator was a fine actress with wonderful range of accents, but the realistic shouting and wailing were, while in-context, were very problematic for earbuds/headphones; leading to lost lower-volume dialog after lunging for the volume control. I think I should have read the paperback.

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Wow. Powerful, horrifying, brilliant.

Revisado: 07-01-24

Powerful, horrifying, brilliant. His typical outstanding writing applied to frightening personality defects. Read if you dare.

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Humor, dark and foreboding. Quite timely.

Revisado: 06-16-24

Wonderful story, wonderful language, wonderful narration. This book masterfully combines sardonic wit, black comedy, and starkly cautionary, if heavy-handed, prophesying of human greed and ignorance, reflected in the very near future results of profit over ecology & intelligent limitation on AI. I would have liked it more if it was not so frighteningly likely.

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Great performance. Getting sick of Brody

Revisado: 04-05-24

Marvelous detail in characters and military activity. An evolving plot that requires reading the first books, and urges continuing with the following books. Narration continues to be remarkable, bringing each character clearly and distinctly to life.

But let’s face it: Brody’s continual movie patter is annoying as hell, and distracts from his contribution to the missions. I suppose that’s the point…

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Great combination of police procedural and science

Revisado: 03-15-24

The author continues to deliver wonderfully complex stories that mix police work, science-tech, and anthropology. Wish it was longer, but it certainly satisfied. I hope he continues to produce exciting fiction.

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Technically robust, tedious presentation

Revisado: 02-01-24

I’ve read all the Slough House books and loved them. This book, however, I found difficult to stay with. It is a slow moving psychological study of a microcosm of a larger international event.

Of particular irritation was the frequent jump of first person perspective accompanied by repeated text - dialogue or descriptive - two, three or more times. This copy-paste approach confounded my perspective leading to multiple, irritating re-reads to clarify.

The technical aspects of spy craft and international finance were well done. But the pace is less action-movie, more therapy session.

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Simplistic Story, Boring Narration

Revisado: 01-01-24

I’m very much a fan of Andrew Mayne, but I found this story to be uncharacteristically simple and one-note. The narration was clear and precise but almost devoid of emotion, much less character distinction.

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