Greg S.

Inconsistent Ensemble Cast

Revisado: 12-01-20

The Baron Harkonan (sp?), for example, had a dedicated voice actor, but not all his lines were delivered by that actor. The narrator often read them. at first I thought maybe the narrator was only reading for the Baron's internal thoughts, but there were also lines of Baron dialogue spoken to other characters out loud. This was jarring to me and really took me out of the story.

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Kinda Neckbeardy

Revisado: 10-29-20

The story has been ok and definitely entertaining enough to keep me listening. However, a lot of the details make the writing feel pretty juvenile. The casual dialogue between basically all the characters has a really overly technical vibe to it, and it comes off as a really shallow attempt to make everything seem more intelligent. As a result, the conversations feel cold and robotic, like Data from Star Trek.

There's a pretty misogynistic characters, and I felt pretty disappointed in how they were handled. Their perspectives were shown to be problematic but the writing also sort of tried to justify it. Overall, there are a lot of cringey Men-Writing-Women tropes in here.

A lot of the descriptive imagery was so bad that it took me out of the story. One (paraphrased) example of this was towards the end-- "he was as still as a bathtub of water left out too long." It's clumsy and pretty lame sounding.

I bought this looking for something entertaining, and it fit that bill enough that I don't regret the purchase. However, all the elements of juvenile writing makes me not really interested in continuing the series.

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A satisfactory, if not slightly confusing read

Revisado: 09-29-20

While I enjoyed this book overall, I found the writing at times to be somewhat clumsy. There are lots of sections of abstract concepts where the character is delving into memories and her inner thoughts. I often found these to be confusing and hard to follow.

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Juvenile and Underdeveloped Writing

Revisado: 12-05-19

The premise of this book and indeed the first few hours of listening were super interesting. However, the characters and story felt very underdeveloped. It felt meandering, with no real direction. It bounced between plot points quickly, with little justification within the story for the decisions made. The characters are really underdeveloped and generic. The last few hours had some pretty cringy romance in it, again feeling like it was targeting a younger audience. The science fiction aspect seemed to have a lot of hand waving and non-sensical explanations and character thought processes, which really felt like it cheapened the book. And the ending of the book, without spoiling the plot, is my least favorite kind of lazy ending. It's the kind of ending that makes me think "what was the point of even reading this?"

As always, RC Bray was a great narrator. However, though the book concept had a lot of promise, the writing in this case just felt really disappointing, I kind of wish I'd spent this credit on another book.

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Bored!

Revisado: 05-24-17

I had a hard time staying diligent and continuing to listen. I just didn't find the story very engaging, and in fact it felt very repetitive. The combination of the story and the narrator's somewhat dry performance just wasn't my style. I ended up stopping about 2/3 of the way through and just watched the PBS documentary on the same subject instead. Overall, not my cup of tea.

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