Casey Akerstrom

Longing and Worry

Revisado: 01-27-24

The story is good and it is well written, but the main (pov) character seems to experience only the emotions of longing or worry. Perpetual wet blanket. And I know that’s not unrealistic (there are people out there like that) it just makes for a tedious read over 10hrs.

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Laundry Files Spinoff

Revisado: 12-14-23

It’s a different story with different characters in the same universe as The Laundry Files. I was disappointed when I thought I’d paid for a continuation of the story I wanted and found out I’d been suckered into buying a new (not as engaging) story. This is more of a street-level super powers story than a lovecraftian spy v spy.

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Off putting reading

Revisado: 02-23-23

The story was good. However the reader chose to voice one of the more chatty characters in a strange, halting monotone. Like a robotic Shatner impression. There were no descriptions in the book indicating this was how they’d talk. It was difficult to listen to.

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Tedious

Revisado: 10-02-22

Insufferable main character. Tears are their first response to almost anything. Author needs to learn to show more and tell less. Too much narration. And the mildly interesting first story ends halfway through, replaced with a solidly boring second story that reads like a sequel in which nothing of note happens.

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Good story, poor medium.

Revisado: 07-22-22

I liked the story. If only it hadn’t been told via the 1st person POV of an utterly insufferable protagonist. Or if there had been more show and less tell. Anything for less of that tiresome internal monologue.

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Well written, with an absurd premise

Revisado: 07-27-21

All that effort to colonize the moon… to turn it into a graveyard? Not for scientific discovery or mining of minerals or as a low-g gateway to the rest of the solar system. Nope. All that work and investment so we can export our corpses there. It was hard to get past. Felt like someone threw two darts and they landed on “zombies” and “moon” and they just shrugged and did it.

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Very neat!

Revisado: 06-08-20

Nice idea with believable characters. Well written too. I don't want to give too much away, but I highly recommend this author.

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Pulpy

Revisado: 03-03-20

Square-jawed ex-military heroes, evil (not too bright) villains, gross aliens. If that's what you want and don't want to think about the motivations or logic too much, this is your book.

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What's with the music?

Revisado: 08-07-19

There's a reason people don't listen to books and music at the same time. The music just gets in the way of the words and you end up not appreciating either. I can kind of understand if it's part of an audio play, but in those the music is scheduled not to tread on the words and the actors are acting so the music and their emoting works together. When the music is all action, but all you have is a narrator (who clearly had no idea there would be music playing drowning her out) speaking calmly, it seems like there are two different things going on.

Have nothing to say on the story since I couldn't hear it.

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Surprisingly boring

Revisado: 08-01-19

I would not have thought a book about a viral vampire outbreak could be boring, but this accomplishes just that.

However, Wil Wheaton is, as always, a national treasure.

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