Howard

Save Your Credits

Revisado: 03-12-25

This started out promissing but bogged down terribly on the journey to the U.S. aboard ship. Very little action but lots and lots of uncessary jabbering. The use of Victorian style of narration and overly formal speech became tedious as it was so overwrought. And how often did people in 1916 use terms like "read my lips"? The narration, while clear, was abysmal in attempts to create female voices. I could not finish this one.

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Great characters

Revisado: 02-26-25

Too many cliches that are out of place given the time period. Needs more editing. For example, "Dead men tell no tales." "Desperate times call for desperate measures.' Did Romans really talk like that? The narrative is full of such cliches.

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Pass

Revisado: 12-29-24

Slow, confusing plot. Difficult narration, confusing characters and names, The police seem more like amateurs. Not a single character is likable. The only part geography plays is rain.

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Not a Fan

Revisado: 09-03-24

The book started out well with a raid on Devil's Island but devolved after that to a corny 1930 ish pulp detective novel with all the usual cliche's. I wasted a credit or half credit on this one.

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Nailed it!

Revisado: 04-01-24

Outstanding short listen. Narration was spot on. Look forward to more from this team of author and narrator.

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Interesting Story Damaged by Narration

Revisado: 04-25-23

I occasionally like a good adventure yarn which so i took a chance on this new book. I was irritated immediately by the narration which is overly dramatic. Every word in virtually every sentence is spit out by the narrator with great amplification. This is unnecessary for the background story and seriously detracts as my attention seems to be drawn to this hammy attempt to slay with violence every period, comma and hyphen in the text and add multiple exclamation points to even the most mundane fact recounted. I can't recommend this book although I did finish it.

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What's up with this?

Revisado: 03-22-23

Some reviews state that this book has non-stop action. Well, there is always something going on but a lot of it is in the vein of "what should a junior officer do?" There is lots of dialog but not so much action. it is a pretty good premise but this did not even seem like a science fiction book so much as this could easily have taken place today with for example, an Abrams substituted for a "robot tank." No need to substitute anything for the drones. I also felt that the newly promoted female major protagonist used a lot of phrases that i have a hard time thinking an officer would use such as "sure" when answering questions from a subordinate or "what's up" and other high school jargon. Seems also to be using this as an avenue to show women can function as officers as well as men. That is fine but there was too much emphasis on that in my view. The book was not so bad i stopped listening to it though but i do not recommend it, particularly if you are expecting something like a Jason Anspach book.

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Well, it seemed like a good idea, but. . .

Revisado: 03-22-22

Although the description made it sound as if this would be an interesting listen, it turned out not to be so interesting. I think a quote from one of the later chapters in the book is descriptive. The author was asked "how was it" at the conclusion of his trip to Pitcairn Island. He said it was like "a trailer court at the end of the world," or similar words. How true. There is some interesting history about the HMS Bounty mutineers and the Lord of the Flies like ending for most of the them after they reached what they thought was paradise. I was also surprised to learn about the modern descendant's rather different mores about female children. But the author found that the current residents were reclusive and downright unfriendly despite their attempt to encourage tourism on the island. Overall, i can say that i almost asked to return the book but stuck it out, although there seemed to be particularly good reason to do so, much as there seemed no particularly good reason for the author to return a second time to the area, going to Norfolk Island.

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Entertaining, but. . .

Revisado: 03-17-21

I very much enjoy the Cork O'Conner series and plan to listen to all of them. I like the settings and characters and they are generally well developed although the female characters seem a little thin to me. I could do without the melodramatic aspects of Cork and Jo's relationship. It just gets over the top in many instances and i find myself hitting the fast forward on my device.

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Gripping Narrative

Revisado: 08-24-20

One wonders how the U.S. Navy prevailed in the Guadalcanal Campaign when you take into account the total failure of U.S. torpedo technology against the truly fearsome Japanese long lance torpedo and highly effective night fighting capabilities of the Japanese Navy. Couple this with poor leadership/command decisions along with poor communications and continual technology failures lead to an abysmal record of U.S. warship sinking in these multiple battles and far too many casualties among a lot of brave men. This book spares no punches in examination of shortcomings. But these were not one-sided. The Japanese also suffered from often puzzling command decisions and leadership failures. This was a very close run campaign and I had a hard time shutting down my Audible app when listing to this book. Narration was great.

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