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It May Just Be Me...

Revisado: 07-31-23

I listened to all the Children of Time novels and was hooked. Great idea, inventive storyline, creative, and well read. Sooo... started this series. I have started this story twice. The story sounds great and compelling IF I CAN JUST KEEP MY ATTENTION in it. The narrator reads beautifully and her voice is pleasant, BUT I lose focus almost immediately. She is just TOO soothing. I get so sleepy and relaxed listening to her that I totally lose the story. If this book is in book or kindle form, I should probably just try reading it.

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Great but Wayyy too Short! Need More!

Revisado: 07-17-23

This series reminds me of Vernor Vinge's writings. Loved all those too! Just enough backstory to help explain the current situation/people/technology. No overexplaining as filler. I'm hooked!

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Good Story But The Ads....

Revisado: 04-16-23

Good story. Good acting even by Sarah Wayne Callies and I don't care for her acting style (Walking Dead) but totally inundated with ads. Only downside. Paying for Audible should eliminate them, but apparently it doesn't.

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Loved It!

Revisado: 04-16-23

Need more story! Would love to hear more! Narration and acting were wonderful and really pulled you into the story.

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Typical Card DeEvolution

Revisado: 03-02-23

Orson Scott Card always starts strong with his series but then devolves into the single-minded Christian beliefs he is a part of. He did this with the Ender Saga and now with this series. There is no mention or respect given to other belief structures and as this is a work of fiction, you would think if you are going to include the Christian (Catholic) religion in the story, you should also include others. Yes, he talks about how the "Reds" are in tune with the earth and how magic is used widely with "knacks" and "hexes"; but seriously, why only one "true" faith? He even bashes the African American "black magic." Why is it bad? Because white God-fearing men say so? It takes up so much of this book, it gets ludicrous. Card uses Christian drivel as fillers in his books after the first couple. Presumably, because he runs out of ideas to move the plot along. When the story starts to plod along like this, I just stop reading. I don't know why I bother reading any of his works anymore.

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Wish I Could Like This

Revisado: 01-08-23

It seems the writer has diverted from a science fiction tale of Ender and his associates to full scale Catholicism in this story and the one before. I wasn't sure if it was a criticism of the church or a fevor of the religion. The book is crammed so full of this strict belief and it's opposition to other beliefs as well as sex there was little of the actual story to follow. I wanted to enjoy this book and the one prior (Xenocide) as I did the first two, but just couldn't...

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Ugh. The Narration is Tedious

Revisado: 12-20-22

I've listened to a large number of audible books and each narrator has pulled it off. Each one has their own style but managed to keep me engaged throughout the story. The worst one I ever heard (until this book) was Stephen King narrating one of his own books but even he is not as bad as this guy. I can't even tell if this story is any good. He is very deadpan and there is barely a difference in his speaking style between characters and between dialog and the general story. It's as if there are no question marks, exclamation points, or even periods in the sentences he is reading. He just drones on and on. I can't believe he has narrated as many books as he has. Again, this poor review is about the narrator, not the story. I can't even continue the story because two hours in I still have no idea what is going on due to the narrator's style of speaking. ugh!!

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Too Much Teen Angst and Lust

Revisado: 12-05-22

Narrator was great. Story was not as good or compelling as in the first book. Most of the book was filled with Morag's lustful thoughts of Kit. Actual story moved very slow as you had to slug through the lust just to get to another plot point. It was very annoying.

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Entertaining Like The First Two but...

Revisado: 10-09-22

These books are aimed at the teen to young adult age range. After listening to the three stories there is a repetitive, somewhat annoying theme among all three. You have your young girl who despite all odds becomes a pilot and connects with other young people who become her friends. Then it gets repetitive. First book sets the stage. Girl learms to fight enemies in a spaceship and makes friends along the way and manages to change how these people think of her. Second book, same story but she is on a space station learning to fight an enemy while making friends with aliens along the way AND changing the way these aliens think about her/humans. Third book, she learns to fight in the nowhere and makes friends with pirates while changing how they think about her/humans. It gets annoying. Good thing these books are short.

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A Good Fairy Tale

Revisado: 10-01-22

Entertaining. Narrator did a good job as he sounded like a young man. Really liked the soundbites done to make it seem as if he really was listening to a tape recording (in certain parts). Other reviewers complained that the story was not read like it was a 17 year old experiencing it but like a much older person. The epilogue specifically states that the story is being recounted by a much older protagonist so that is a moot point. My only issue, albeit small, that is shared by other reviewers is the continued use of "TMC" later on in the story. The fact that the protagonist's father likes to watch older movies on TMC was already established early in the book. It got a bit repetitive and redundant. The story was creative using aspects of fairy tales everyone has grown up with in different and unusual ways and still giving a nod to these old and new tales. I enjoyed this story thoroughly and really liked the narrators. Overall a good job.

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