M. Murphy

Slow moving.

Revisado: 08-16-22

R.C. Bray does a great job reading this book. The story is very slow moving and repetitive. For a person that has been on the run for as many years as the book claims the character has no confidence in anything. It was a nice plot line in Expeditionary Force but this it is a failure. The book does layout the seed for multiple future plotlines that could make this series worth listening to..

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Story is good but reading is flat.

Revisado: 07-01-22

This narrator reads very flat leaving the book without much excitement. The actual store is not bad but the reading makes it boring.

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Story is very good! Narrator is very flat.

Revisado: 01-15-16

Would you be willing to try another one of Jeff Bower’s performances?

No. Mr. Bower's performance reminded me of a college lecture hall performance. His narrator's voice sounds forced and very artificial. His character voices are falsetto and sound like they should be part of anime.

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This book is well written and builds the Crimson World story line very nicely. It has made me desire to listen to the next in the series.

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Very sexually graphic, to the point of loosing the story.

Revisado: 11-19-15

Very sexually graphic, to the point of loosing the story.

Story (book) number 2 is more porn than story. I skipped over large portions and did not miss any of the plot. The real story was about 1 - 2 hours at the end.

I expected better from author.

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Excellent story, but repetitive.

Revisado: 07-03-15

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The story is very good. I found some of the story very repetitive. Every character had to reintroduce every other character. It appears the story was written as a series of short stories that have been combined into a single book.

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Excellent story, poor narration.

Revisado: 04-27-15

Would you listen to Destruction again? Why?

No, not with this narrator. The story line is a very good one. David Rheinstrom reads very fast and this prevents the story from becoming relaxing. I was never able to empathize with the characters because of the frantic pace of the story and narration.

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Lots of plot building with little action.

Revisado: 03-10-15

Lots of plot building with little action. Many characters have been introduced but none of them have achieved anything. Hoping book two will make some use of storylines.

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More magic than SF

Revisado: 06-12-14

This book is waste. The complete Manpower story line is just magic. By Weber’s own description is they are a small but wealthy system who specialize in biotech. I can buy they are the galaxies leader in biotech. So having 2 super advances in that field makes sense. The genetic upgrades they have done is major and I can believe they can control politics. The bio-virus that controls people is believable if your are that deep into genetics. It stays within their expertise. For me at this point it is still SF.

It starts to become magic when they come up with 3 non-biotech advances that are all undetectable.
1) They made a drive that takes them well into the higher hyper bands.
2) New sub-light drives that are undetectable using a totally new propulsion system.
3) A grazer that keeps its’ power but can fit into a missile.

That becomes unbelievable. It would be hard to believe they came up with one of these technologies. You have two naval empires that can not create these technologies with all their research. Then to add insult, Mr. Weber has them create a navy without anybody noticing. Not even the Ballroom!

If they were capable of all this on top of their biotech everybody in the galaxy would be watching them. This has lost its' SF taste.

He tries to compare it to Japan in WWII. No match. Japan did not have any super weapons. They had advances the US did not have. Great Britain had similar technology. They convinced the US they were not advancing their navy, but everybody knew the Japanese had navy. The surprise was where it was located.

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A very good story even if it was predictable.

Revisado: 03-05-13

I found the story to be very predictable at times. Other times I had a hard time differentiating between the chameleon and the changeling. Over all this was still an enjoyable listen.

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Very slow.

Revisado: 08-31-12

This book is a transition book and it is very slow. All the main characters are only side notes to the most boring political dialog I have listened to.

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