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Worth listening to for free

Revisado: 06-08-24

If you’ve been in military combat arms or work in software engineering, you’re going to constantly struggle with suspension of disbelief. There are a lot of things that are just wrong. The Mary Sue , or Gary Stu, if you prefer, hero was about as believable as Spider-Man.

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Entertaining story

Revisado: 05-30-24

Virtual voice is terrible, but it got the job done.

This series is worth a listen. The story is interesting and entertaining, and not too far-fetched. A lot better than most sci-fi that I’ve read or listened to.

My only real critique is that the author is in serious need of a good editor to help clean up and fine tune the pacing and verbiage.

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Good performance, cliche story

Revisado: 01-27-24

I couldn’t finish it. I wanted to, but it’s just not believable to anyone who’s spent any time in combat arms, and the characters are just irritating, and not likable.

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Poor prose and deus ex machina abound

Revisado: 01-23-24

It’s just Zionism and Nazis in space with a decent plot, terrible, unrealistic prose, Kabbalah, Mary Sues, and a bunch of just in time miracles.

Sci-Fi is usually pretty low quality, so I try to not be too critical, but this book is just terrible.

I’m impressed with the performers ability to make the speeches sound less corny.

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A cut above most fantasy

Revisado: 01-03-24

Even though there were plenty of “stock” character types, they were different enough to not make it cliche. The way “magic” works in this universe was different, interesting, but except in one exceptional case, not godlike or overpowering. The single case of god-mode powers had a reasonable explanation, is properly foreshadowed, and wasn’t the typical deus ex machina that fantasy authors often use to get out of situations.

The pacing may be too slow for some, but I found it to be almost perfectly done.

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It’s just.. dumb

Revisado: 12-30-23

I’m used to bad sci-fi, and can tolerate quite a lot of bad plots, cookie cutter characters, deus ex machina, and so on, but this story, which had promise just gets worse and worse as time goes on.

I feel like I’m reading the fantasies of an over-weight, middle-class urbanite whose mind is still trapped in secondary school.

I couldn’t finish it.

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Thin and plodding

Revisado: 12-28-23

There was one character that wasn’t utterly forgettable, and he was barely more than a one dimensional counterpart to a stereotypical arrogant asshole.

The military TOE and tactics used by these “seasoned veterans” would be recognized as terrible by anyone who has been in an Infantry unit more than a month, and are just pants on head stupid. Maybe if your only experience with military matters is an FPS, this might be entertaining, but if you’ve spent any time in a combat arms unit, your eyes will roll so far back in your head that your optic nerve will snap. Hell, anyone who’s played a military strategy or tactical game will know this.

The worst of the already rather weak Four Horseman universe.

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Best of the series so far

Revisado: 12-26-23

Reasonable plot, decent characters for the number of them and the available time, no thinly veiled social commentary or preaching, and an interesting look at the hunters.

It’s not a literary masterpiece, but it was a good read.

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It just keeps getting worse

Revisado: 12-19-23

I don’t expect a lot from science fiction, but this story just keeps getting cornier and cornier. The only thing more eye rolling than neo-liberal preaching in a story is conservative preaching in a story, and the politics just ooze out of the story like a slime mold. I’m trying to get through it, but the author is trying like hell to convince me to listen to something else.

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You don’t know what I went through

Revisado: 12-17-23

Good performance, lackluster story, cardboard cutout characters. I couldn’t finish it.

Oh yeah, 130 years in the future, we still have to make sure everyone knows how bad the Nazis are.

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