David Brodie

Would Make a Great Show

Revisado: 10-31-24

This series is excellent. Vivid, interesting world and a growing meta mystery surrounding each episode. Hope it gets picked up by some studio or another - feels like it could be done similarly to Altered Carbon on Netflix.

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Excellent Narration

Revisado: 10-27-24

Great book to revisit after so many years. RC Bray is perfectly cast for the narration and does a superb job for each character. Well worth a credit.

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Fascinating

Revisado: 10-25-24

I’m not a big reader of histories but this was riveting and fascinating. It’s good to see the other side of the fantasy of Native American perfection prior to the arrival of whites, and doubly so to follow the story of such an extraordinary person such as Quanah Parker. Excellent.

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What else can be said? Still amazing

Revisado: 10-04-24

Great narration of a classic. I relisten every few years to refresh myself on Rand’s ideas. Incredible novel.

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Disappointing But Not Series Ruining

Revisado: 07-03-24

I still have 5 hours left, and nothing has happened. They go to sectionals and compete. There’s some lame attempt to make a REALLY GOOD thing sound sinister, some hints at a larger threat, but nothing moves forward.

Ray gets stronger. That’s the summary.

Incidentals include Viv becoming insufferable, endless hemming and hawing over trauma dumps (Grant’s backstory - yawn).

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I can’t help but also feel like the author’s politics are on display and it feels forced.

Every female character is an absolute Girl Boss who out man’s every man in every situation imaginable and the men love them for it.

There’s an entire section - hours of audio - devoted to an event that seems to be about either PTSD or is a metaphor for rape or both. But it falls flat because the characters literally simulate their own deaths day after day in SCT fights- THEY PASS OUT AND EXPERIENCE EXCRUCIATING PAIN AND THE ARENA SAYS FATAL DAMAGE ACRUED ON THE DAILY - so when Ray gets all traumatic about an unexpected simulated death (after going through it dozens of times PER DAY when he’s training, especially against the Lasher) it’s like, seriously?

And then Aria gets her own dose because she saw Ray get it not so good? And Dent, the toughest of the tough is just like “hey I had my face blown off once but you just went through the same shit you go through day after day WE SHOULD ALL CROWD AROUND AND CODDLE AND CRY WITH YOU!” And everybody does, including the whole arena cheering for Aria overcoming literally nothing. NOTHING HAPPENED TO HER! And her friend was fine!

Ugh. Five more hours. I skipped the last 20 minutes of Viv explaining Grants back story because Grant is too much of a crybaby to do it himself. I get it. It’s a tough story for him and Girl Boss Viv needed to prove she’s emotionally stronger than he is because obviously tough men are forced by the patriarchy to not be able to express feelings.

Also, Cash has two dads. Ok?
And there’s there’s a hyper competent transwoman whose only function is to be described as super hot, super competent, and then who literally makes the scene about himself because he was born a man and thinks he’s a woman now and thinks that’s important and pertinent to explain to his boss.

Redeeming moment when the boss says something like “that’s not at all similar to what’s going on.” Based. But we’re supposed to hate that guy because he offers the greatest thing possible to Ray.

Obviously I struggled with this one. Just tell a story. I believe the women can be strong, they have CADs, they don’t need to immasculate every male character for me to remember that.

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Best one in the recent bunch

Revisado: 01-30-24

This installment takes things in a fresh direction. Where usually there is some preamble then the remainder of the book takes place on whatever world Legion Varus goes to, this one actually expands on the greater universe, meta conflict with the galactic races, and internal politics of earth.

Glad to see the series staying fresh!

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I'll keep reading but I'm not happy about it

Revisado: 11-12-23

I really enjoyed book 1, but the title of book 2 contains literally the entirety of what happens in this book. There's some random check-ins with some other characters, who have fights that have no stakes or reason, but the only plot moving point happens halfway through and then the rest is just fluff.

I don't know what the broader conflict or threat is, which makes me worried the story will run out of steam while the writer scrambles to figure out where to go with it. I'll try book 3, but it needs to improve on this one for me to continue.

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Solid - Lots of Potential

Revisado: 11-11-23

Narrator, concept, story, and world are all quite good. The only thing that holds this one back (and I've grown used to it) is the omniscient viewpoint that skips around from perspective to perspective. It's a bit distracting and if you lose focus for a moment you can suddenly be looking through somebody else's eyes. The author does a good job of sign posting this, so it's not a deal breaker.

Also Tersa. She's the worst. I'm 90% through book 2 and she is still the worst.

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Massively Underrated

Revisado: 03-22-23

This is one of the series I come back to every few years and enjoy every time. It's also one I feel I can safely recommend to people looking for complete and genuinely good series.

Post apocalyptic fantasy with one of the best narrators in the game. Love it.

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Very good - already bought the next one

Revisado: 02-13-23

Great story, perfectly chosen narrator. Kept me interested from start to finish. Got the next book queued up already.

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