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Good premise, solid execution, still unsatisfying.

Revisado: 09-14-20

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The Original starts out with a great punch, and keeps a nice, tight narrative through the first two acts, and largely into the third. You can catch the feel of both authors here and there, but they gel nicely and it doesn't distract from the story. The narrator is good, easy to listen to, and speaks clearly.

What ruined it for me was this;

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...it has an ambiguous ending, which I found VERY unsatisfying. I get the angle they were going for, I do. A whole 'really makes you think,' vibe. But I felt super cheated as a reader, especially after the third act garnered a surprising amount of emotional investment from me.

Sooooo.... yeah. Very disappointing.

Or maybe I'm missing something obvious, that makes it Actually Good. I sort of hope so. I hope other people like it. I wish I had, too.

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Bad Narrator and Too Much Rape

Revisado: 06-01-19

I know lots of people like this narrator, but I can't stand him. Unless the character is an Archetypal Hero, get ready for them all to have extremely grating and cartoony voices.

Additionally GRRM really seems into revel in the suffering of women to a really uncomfortable degree. Oh, and the way he codes a lot of his "forign" cultures is super racist.

On the good side, the intrigue and characters are fleshed out and often interesting, and the author is very good with thematics and metaphor.

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Another great Expanse book

Revisado: 04-04-19

A great narrator and an engaging story. I couldn't ask for a better audiobook experience. :)

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Pygmalion male power fantasy

Revisado: 10-05-18

At this point in my life I have zero tolerance for sexism, and this book seems to thrive on it. Studded with both low-grade sexist insinuations and blatant objectification, devoid any introspection or examination that might justify it as a literary critique of gender disparity. If it gets better further in, I'll never know, since I'm returning ASAP.

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Fun Book, Improved Narration

Revisado: 07-27-18

like its predecessor, this book delivers an entertaining story with vibrant characters. The same narrator reads this as the last book, but she has improved since then. There are still a couply of awkward pronunciations, but on the whole she's much improved.

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Fun book, mediocre narrator

Revisado: 07-07-18

I really enjoyed this book! The vibrant ensemble cast and episodic delivery made it feel like watching a season of something in between Firefly and Farscape, but with more reliable continuity and plot. It's not very science-heavy, but it is entertaining.

The audio was okay-ish at best. The editing was poor, without pauses between different sections, and at one point I was informed that I had reached the end of the CD (lol).

The narrator had a pleasant voice and was good at voicing characters, but she mispronounced several words, repeatedly, which got a bit grating in sections.

Overall good, but if there's another option of this audiobook, I'd go with that.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 06-17-18

Vague, unsatisfying, and unbearably pretentious, Mieville delivers evocative but pointlessly oblique prose. Mostly mediocre narration. I'll be returning this book.

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Same pros and cons as the rest of the series

Revisado: 05-26-18

Just like the previous Raksura books on Audible, I enjoyed the story, but dislike the narrator. Chris Kipiniak voices the characters in an overblown and cartoonish way that significantly detracts from the experience. He's not bad enough to make me swap to a text version (I have very poor eyesight) but almost.

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Fun book, not my favorite narrator

Revisado: 05-18-18

Like the previous booms in the series, The Siren Depths delivers a fast-paced story in a vivid world. Also like the prior books, the audiobook narrator is a bit heavy-handed with characterization when it comes to voicing characters. He's improved some since the earlier books, though--eirher that, or I've just got used to him.

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Fun book, disappointing narrator

Revisado: 05-12-18

Like the previous book in the series, The Serpent Sea delivers a lush, imaginative fantasy world and fast-paced story. However, also like its predecessor, the narrator overacts when voicing characters, and overemphasizes the pauses associated with commas. It's nitpicky, I know, but it bugged me. Otherwise, the narrator has a pleasant voice and speaks clearly.

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