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You're better off with the book.

Revisado: 12-12-24

This subject doesn't work when read aloud. The information is important but it is just a series of pieces with an occasional editorial comment. I kept zoning out and fast forwarding through yet another series of examples.

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Irritating narration.

Revisado: 08-07-24

The narration has an irritating rhythm with excessive pauses between sentences. I gave up listening after a little more than an hour. What I heard of the story didn't seem to be as interesting as the first book.

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Not one of his better ones.

Revisado: 04-07-24

The virtual voice is better than the normal text to speech. It doesn't distinguish between characters and there are odd pauses: I didn't check but I suspect most of these are for paragraphs. For some reason chapter headings are read twice.

I do plan on reading the sequel: but it's not one of his better books. The worlds he's created have potential but the characters, in general, aren't ones I'd want to be around. They don't have the spark/fun I have come to anticipate from almost all his other series. Almost everyone has multiple chips on their shoulders. The issues/ideas seem oversimplified.

He did point out that very few people are aware of how frequently women commit rape. But he didn't show any other awareness of the complexities of early and modern women's rights movements. For example men in general didn't have the right to vote until shortly before women got the vote. The Supreme Court ruled that if men were subject to the draft they deserved the right to vote. Men were and are generally subject to harsher treatment by the courts. Up until very recently life was very nasty for almost everyone. Both men and women.

He repeatedly referred to these athletic modern women being far stronger than old style farm women. The athletic modern women might have some specialized strength for gymnastics/martial arts movements. But for the lifting/toting/all day long strength I'd bet on the farm folk and people from the early 1900's hands down. If he wanted to argue that the farmers were malnourished or generally sickly then perhaps ....


I like his sharp, fun leads who give me a smile and things to think about. This book was lacking from that As in his bioterror book his treatment of vaccines was simplistic. For example he could have acknowledged that the smallpox and polio vaccines accidentally spread very nasty diseases, such as syphilis and RSV, all over the world. Several vaccines have the issue that while they suppress symptoms: many only mildly suppress disease spread if at all. The diseases have the higher risk but generally lower spread of the disease once recovered. One sign of this is how difficult it has become for pharma to produce immunoglobulin. In general people no longer have the long term immunities, in their plasma, used to produce the immunoglobulin.
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Cutesy and dumb.

Revisado: 10-11-23

I frequently have problems with ensemble performances. One or more voice being extremely annoying. That's tolerable if they're infrequent. This time they were main characters. This was probably because the story was being cutesy and dumb. The combination made be stop before listening to much of the book: I gave the story the benefit of the doubt and gave it 3 instead of 2 stars.

Bottom line was I wouldn't want to be around these characters in real life and the story seemed to be dumb pompous people doing dumb pompous things.

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Groan, not again ...

Revisado: 06-23-23

Please dramatically shorten the stats or get rid of them. I don't need to hear the mana stone description ten or more times each book. I don't need to hit skip forward 10-20 times, seems like each chapter, pausing a moment for each skip hoping for the stats end at last. These are good books and like most LitRPG the stat lists don't translate well to audible format.

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Too many stats!

Revisado: 06-22-23

A very enjoyable story. But the stats keep getting longer and more frequent. Very annoying and they are almost useless. I'm currently on book two and I believe the most recent stat recital was over 5 minutes. When reading it's easy to skip these: but when listening they're painful and could and should be skipped during the performance. This is one of the downsides of the LitRPG genre. I wish Audible would standardize a format to facilitate skipping. Perhaps: collect these as footnotes, at the end of chapters, allowing readers to skip to the end of a chapter.

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Disappointing conclusion.

Revisado: 06-21-23

I was really enjoying this until about the last three hours. Then I just kept waiting for it to be over. If he writes a sequel I'll probably skip it.

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Worried about where the story is going.

Revisado: 05-28-23

The 1st 3/4 of the book were addictive. But then it started to go directions that make me nervous about the sequel.

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Almost stopped reading the series.

Revisado: 05-24-23

If you like reading stories focused on characters you wouldn't want to spend time with: this might be for you. The story is complex and moves the series along. I just didn't enjoy it.

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Addictive but the 1st was better.

Revisado: 04-08-23

I'm found it a bit hard to keep track of all the different voices, names, and story lines in this one.

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