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Beware Luke Daniels rings the rest of this series

Revisado: 12-09-24

love book 1 and book 2, and I was so excited to move one to the rest of this series, but narrator change, specifically to Luke Daniels, just terrible. so be aware that this series becomes unlistenable after the first two amazing books.

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Hard to care about this book

Revisado: 09-06-24

I burned through the Druid books with Luke as a narrator and that did this book in. Everyone in that series was either American, Irish or a redneck and when he strayed from those he struggled mightily. So, it was no surprise that as he narrated this book everyone became American, Irish, or a redneck. they were the exact same voices, delivered in the exact same way. I will avoid any books with Luke as the narrator moving forward.

With that said, and narrator aside, the premise of this book was really hard to care about. I won't go into spoilers, but while some of the other issues in the other books seemed at least a little novel, this was tired and over used. TBH, it may have turned the corner, but approaching the 1/3 mark of the book, I was very comfortable not knowing how it ended. I could see 2 or 3 possibilities and none of them were interesting enough to entice me to continue.

Excluding this book, I would give the series 4 stars. It was largely an enjoyable listen.

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Social and political commentary camouflaged as fantasy.

Revisado: 11-16-23

The first book of this series is decent, with just a touch of current issues of pronouns, but as you get deeper into the series expect to deal with child abuse, sexuality issues, inequity, and white/class privilege.

These issues are real in our current society, but if you are wanting to read a fantasy book as a way to temporarily escape life issues, be prepared to be disappointed. I would suggest not starting this series. By the fourth book, I was siding against the main characters, tired of being lectured.

Also, as the author continued to write, the characters stopped being unique and started to act and sound too similar, the way they thought and spoke, I think the author lost focus on what made the first book a reasonably good read.

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The Bobverse, this is not, but it wanted to be.

Revisado: 08-15-23

Great narrator, terrible science in this fiction.

There was little thought given to any of the science, there was absolutely no added benefit to being an Android when it came to mental acuity. no thinking faster. not even remembering the things at your disposal. The aliens spoke English colloquialisms even though they'd never heard English before. The author would give details and then forget those details by the time they would come up again later in the book. it was just a rush job and that's sad because the narrator was fantastic. the story had some decent plot lines. not great but it just could have been so much better had there been consistency in any thought given to any pragmatism.

Luckily it was bad enough that it made it really easy for me not to continue past book two.

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Does not translate well

Revisado: 08-05-23

This narrator is not imaginative enough, Every character, male or female sounds exactly the same. Thank goodness that it is unabridged so we can hear the name of the person that was talking otherwise it would be impossible to follow.

The dialog is forced and I think it is that way strictly due to translation and cultural differences. The underlying story is the only thing that gives this listen any value, and sadly it is not enough to listen to the same narrator for another book. I'll be reading a synopsis to see how the trilogy ends.

If I could return this title I would and I'm fairly confident that my disappointment has nothing to do with the author, it's the translator and narrator that are to blame.

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Potential that falls boring.

Revisado: 01-02-23

Sometimes there are books about boring characters that are placed in extraordinary circumstances. That is the case here, and that's alright. It's not the character then, it's the story that you are interested in. Except over 50 percent of this book detailed just how dull the character was prior to the event. The event itself was poorly detailed, leaving you wishing that sometime else took this concept and wrote this book.

The narrator also didn't know the words they were reading and continued to have pronunciations for fairly common words that were completely wrong.

All in all, disappointing.

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Forced conclusions and no cohesion

Revisado: 12-24-22

Not much to say, the read was a grind at best. There was nothing of value to take away from the book.

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Uninspired and derivative

Revisado: 12-24-22

The Dark Tower, just a different cast and scenery. A premise to start without any understanding how to end it .

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