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Solid Entry to Series

Revisado: 04-03-25

I didn’t feel the last two were as strong as some of the other entries, but this one was quite well done. Still not surpassing “Six” as my favorite of the series, but well done.

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Those sound effects…

Revisado: 01-29-25

Wonderful reinterpretation of the classic “hero’s journey”. Love the manhwa. Love the anime. Love the extra depth, detail, and texture of this audiobook adaptation. But… the narrator’s sound effects are just cringey. Lee does fine narrating text, but the poor guy desperately needed some sort of help with the sound effects!

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Ugh… the narrator’s sound effects.

Revisado: 01-28-25

Wonderful reinterpretation of the classic “hero’s journey”. Love the manhwa. Love the anime. Love the extra depth, detail, and texture of this audiobook adaptation. But… the narrator’s sound effects are just cringey. Lee does fine narrating text, but the poor guy desperately needed some sort of help with the sound effects!

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Cute Short Story by Scalzi

Revisado: 10-04-24

Description gives you the general idea of what the story is about… it’s kind of a “day in the life of…” type of story, spread out over a week. It’s an exciting first week on the job too!

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Interesting “Mock-journalism” Approach

Revisado: 10-02-24

It’s a premise of “something terrible happened” but it’s conveyed not as a story, but as a series of interviews with “the survivors”. Maybe not the best book I’ve listened too, but the approach was novel and the method utilized was enjoyable.

The (two) narrators did an excellent job. They each had a variety of voices and dialects to spread between the characters.

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Quite Entertaining!

Revisado: 09-19-24

No real high drama and it’s not exactly a literary masterpiece, but it’s very enjoyable to listen to and manages to do a great job in capturing that uniquely “Florida vibe”.

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Sort of like Dune meets The Expanse with a bit of the notorious Stanford Experiment mixed in.

Revisado: 08-12-24

Not fantasy, as labeled. Barely sci-fi. Focuses almost entirely upon social structures, interpersonal relationships, and what people will do when given license to act without consequence.

Enjoyed this book, a lot. Much more than I would have expected. Perhaps a new favorite now.

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Great Tier One Story

Revisado: 07-04-24

If there is a Tier One character you like, they probably have a storyline in there somewhere. It captures the essence of everything we like in the Tier One novels, and delves into J.D.’s psyche post Russian prison too. Interesting new characters too. A&W had kind of left Tier One alone for a while, working on other projects. Dempsey didn’t feel like the previous entries to me. Good, but the parts that weren’t actually about Dempsey sometimes lacked the… IDK, passion? Love? Effort? As the previous entires. This one does; it delivers.

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Really damn good with a wonderful ending.

Revisado: 06-24-24

In the lead-up to release, I was a bit concerned about all the 007 references (7th Jack Carr book) and some of the influences Carr sited. The concern was for naught. In the first obvious influence, Carr used the “lampshade” technique. Acknowledge the oddity, embrace it, and move on with control over the narrative. The other influences were more subtle. Don’t get me wrong, there is certainly clear Bond influence in parts and some clear nods to Flemming himself. If you know the genre, especially as a Gen Xer, you can also see influence from other writers with whom we grew up reading.
TL;DR- it’s a really good book. Very well done. Reese does new things and also does the things he is known for. Really like the ending too. Kind of hope Carr lets that one play out as is.

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Very good, though slightly predictable

Revisado: 02-23-24

One of the best Grey Man books. Sierra Six is still my favorite, but this is better than Burner, and definitely better than anything prior to Back Blast.

This plot has been done before. There are a couple of unique twists, but mostly it’s an interesting story of a familiar “bogeyman”. All modern thriller writers need to do a deadly pandemic story, a hacker story, a Middle East despot story, a nuclear disaster averted story, a Russian dictator threat story, and an AI story.

This is Greaney’s AI story and it’s done well. It’s largely relatable and largely plausible. Definitely worth listening to/reading. Definitely recommend for Gray Man fans. Probably among Greaney’s 5 best Gray Man stories.

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