B. Rawson

A great sci fi mystery

Revisado: 12-29-24

Great story, and well performed by the author. The sound effects and music additions made for a fun ride.

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Even better this way

Revisado: 10-20-24

I wasn’t around for the first few years of the Halloween choose your own death/adventure story as it was written, but it was a highlight of my Octobers for a handful of years. Being able to listen to the story as a whole is fantastic, and I love Jim and the rest of the characters even more than I did the first time around. The choice of narrator for this was 🤌.

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Lackluster narration, decent story

Revisado: 09-26-24

It takes a lot for me to give up on an audiobook; I had to give up on this one. The narrator had the weirdest cadence and made me think of Shatner with the strange pauses scattered around. “But the Paladin must have known more about blood magic than her zealotry suggested, because she picked it apart, blasting through Victor’s safeguards to begin ripping up the strings that held her human mask…in place.” The weird monotone delivery and inconsistent audio quality was the last straw. I like the story so far, but even that is feeling like new paint job over the same story line as the Opal Yong-ae books; a female character who is living a life dominated by a controlling male/father figure, an uncharacteristically strong and competent male character that comes to the rescue unexpectedly (and who is weirdly trustworthy with little evidence), and some other supporting characters, like a male friend/coworker that clearly isn’t a love interest. I’m waiting for it to turn into a unique story, and I’m willing to keep on reading, even if it is essentially the same story as the last DFZ series, but I simply can’t listen to this narrator anymore.

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Adventure, but nestled inside the story of making friends in a new place

Revisado: 03-23-24

This book, and its predecessor, are both wonderfully sweet and refreshing. It has adventure and swordfighting, but only as a backdrop to the story of a fighter learning more about creating community with the people she finds herself unexpectedly dropped in with. It’s calming and well read and is a truly nice change from most of the genre. Well worth the time.

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Fantastic all around

Revisado: 10-16-23

An excellent story with a lot more depth and nuance than I was expecting. The sound effects of the various voices of the AI component are thoroughly amusing and add a lot to the production. Great book and great audiobook.

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Fantastic all around

Revisado: 10-16-23

An excellent story with a lot more depth and nuance than I was expecting. The sound effects of the various voices of the AI component are thoroughly amusing and add a lot to the production. Great book and great audiobook.

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Light and fun

Revisado: 11-23-22

Another excellent entry by John Scalzi, and great performance by Wil Wheaton. Fun and easy to listen to.

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Not that much fun

Revisado: 11-06-19

The story of Ishmael Wang got real depressing in this book. Add to that the fact that the preferred method of moving the protagonists story along by this author is to kill off major female figures or to subject female characters to horrible treatment and set the protagonist up as the saviour, the whole things just gets tiresome. And on top of that, if you removed the phrase “Miss Arioni” (sp?) from the book it would likely be shorter by several thousand words (because nearly every exchange between Wang and one of the next most present characters involved restating her name EVERY LINE), and this installment of the series was just not that enjoyable.

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Rooting for villains

Revisado: 02-04-18

This is unquestionably one of the best books I’ve read in quite a while. Massive cast of characters, and not a single one gets lost. It takes an unique look at the kind of dynamic that would form given real world superheroes and villains, and drops you into the world on the side of evil. But, you know, not too evil, most of the time. I suck at writing reviews, just trust me, this is worth the time. I’m very tempted to start the relisten right this second.

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Good times

Revisado: 01-01-17

A well written look at all of the stories of Joss Whedon. Having watched Buffy and Angel multiple times, and many of Whedon's other stories at least a few times, it was very easy to follow all of the commentary. If I wasn't as familiar with the stories, I think it would have been difficult to follow a lot of what was being described.

My only issue with the narrator (and it's minor, but enough to be gratingly annoying each time it happened) is the narrators mispronunciation of names or other things. She reads "Wash" (Firefly) as "Walsh" and Jana (Jenny Calendar-Buffy) with the hard J instead of saying it with the Y sound, and refers to the episode "Band Candy" as "Bad Candy". It's something that a producer well versed in Whedons stories would have caught and fixed.

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