Michael Potter

Solid MHI story

Revisado: 10-11-23

I found that the narrator worked well for the POV character. Woman narrator matched the woman character well.

Not really sure what to say in general, set in the past and there are hints of things to come in the main series because of it. Otherwise it was a well crafted MHI story. Monsters were killed. Team suffered from the danger. Story made sense in context even though I am not sure if I like yet another monster as a hunter.

Worth the credit and fun to listen to while driving to and from work

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No stakes in the story

Revisado: 10-06-23

The main character just plays video games (badly because they are dumb). Poorly put together Eve Online type alliance wars. A poorly done ending.

The whole thing is a game with no real stakes at all. It does not matter if the characters win or lose as they are just playing video games. Characters are paper thin stereotypes.

Narrator does a good job considering the poor source material.

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Fine to listen to but not deep

Revisado: 07-06-23

Characters are put into situations that should kill them immediately. Too much juvenile background romance threads that are never picked up. The narrator does a good job voicing characters and the story does move along in a decent enough pace. Was entertaining enough for me to finish listening to it.

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Calls Elric “Eric” over and over

Revisado: 10-27-22

Thought the narration was decent, but when the main character is called Eric over and over it gets distracting. Bad QA and editing.

The story itself is great.

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Action moves the story ahead

Revisado: 10-03-20

But a little to much clinical description of the metal illness in the main characters. Gets distracting because there is too much tell and not enough show in the depictions.

Even with that, I enjoyed the book and recommend it. At its heart, it is a fun action story.

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Too slow and repetitive

Revisado: 02-21-20

The heavy-handed foreshadowing and the constant repetition is just too much. First book in a long time I could not finish. I just don’t care what happens the the characters. The thin real world stereotypes of the surrounding kingdoms are also boring.

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Another book where not much happens

Revisado: 01-11-20

Until it does. I don’t want to spoil the story, but it takes way too long before some fairly drastic actions happen and even those don’t seem to have too much effect on the main characters.

If the next book does not advance the elders plot more than a new mystery, I think I will stop with the series.

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Fine capstone to the story of USA in WW2

Revisado: 10-21-19

I think that a few parts would have been easier to follow with a map in front of me, but I at least have been to the parts in Europe the final accounting covers enough that I was able to keep a map in my head.

The series does a great job of showing real people and, the the case of this book in particular, the real horror of WW2.

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I guess too cool for me

Revisado: 05-23-19

I thought the writing tried way too hard to be cool and fell dreadfully flat for me. The story itself was straightforward and took forever to get to the actual contest. All that time was spent with writing that I found empty. I thought the author was trying too hard, and I cannot recommend it.

Possible that others may have a different reaction to the prose, but if this is her usual style of writing I will not seek out others by her.

The narration itself was well enough done.

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Over dramatic reading and excessive purple prose

Revisado: 02-09-19

I am not sure why this gets such good reviews in written and spoken (Audible.com). The story is pretty juvenile and the battles are overwrought and the heroes restored to life over and over. The narrator probably did his better, but he is was over dramatic in his reading. The writing is clumsy and I would hate to see how many times something “touches the soul” or similar for all the characters.

The magic system is not consistent and the characters are cardboard in many cases and too many.

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