Kimberly Colley

Free Audible book

Revisado: 08-01-21

Got this as a free listen. Reads like fanfic based on the movie "Underworld." Not worth buying.

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Physics and poetry

Revisado: 04-17-21

One can be both a physicist and a poet, like the author. But a book cannot be both a book of poetry and a book on physics for the layperson. I don’t recommend this book to anyone who does not have at least a bachelor’s degree in physics.

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Terrible narrator

Revisado: 04-09-21

I’m fine with not getting a British actor to read a story set in England. I’m even willing to overlook the mispronunciation of British words or expressions. But this reader gets even basic words, common to American English, wrong. She’s really, really awful. It’s pronounced DEF-er-ence, not de-FERR-ence. Sheesh. And that’s just one example. There are plenty of clinkers in this one. Just do yourself a favor and read the books narrated by Chiaromonte, rather than listening to the audiobook.

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Insomnia cure

Revisado: 03-31-21

To be fair, I only listen to the books in this series that are free with my Audible account. They make excellent books to sleep to as the narrator’s voice is pleasing, and I have absolutely no interest in the characters or action to keep me awake.

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Dreadful sound quality

Revisado: 08-03-19

At times tinny to the point of sounding like an old-time radio broadcast, I suspect this recording was cobbled together from two different readings. I do not recommend this audiobook, even though the mystery itself was good. Save your money and read the book instead.

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Pleasantly surprised

Revisado: 02-27-18

I liked this more than I thought I would. Much grittier than the Peter Blake series, and it did manage to give me one horrific nightmare.

I thought the narrator was fine. I listen to a lot of audiobooks read by English actors, so perhaps I’m more used to the accents. The only two voices I had difficulty distinguishing were that of Sefton and Costain.

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Not unabridged

Revisado: 11-11-17

Despite the claims in the teaser, this collection is most definitely abridged. The main reason I bought this audiobook was so that I could listen to “Bertie Changes His Mind.” Nope. Not in this recording, even though it is one of the stories in the printed collection. Further, the order of the stories were chopped and changed to the extent that Bertie must have been able to teleport from NYC to London and back again via the old Indian fakir bit he’s always going on about.

It’s disgraceful that Audible advertises this as an unabridged recording, and then uses reviews of the print version from Amazon to sell it.

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Not worthy of its hype

Revisado: 10-20-17

I sincerely regret wasting a credit on this. Some liken it to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That’s an insult to Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker’s was funny and intelligent. Starship Grifters is merely puerile. Adolescent boys will think it the last word in humor; all others should move on.

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A fantasy, not a romance

Revisado: 07-22-17

As my title suggests, I feel that this is a fantasy novel, with only minor romantic elements. Shinn's world-building is truly phenomenal, on a par with Sanderson and Novik. Romances - and, really, any other genre of fiction except sf - do not have that level of care put into them. It is no more a romance than the first novel in the Vorkosigan saga.

I do agree with at least one other reviewer that certain aspects felt unfinished. Although the arc of the protagonist was satisfactorily concluded, the fate of some secondary characters was left up in the air.

Nevertheless, I am sufficiently impressed with the author's skill in world-building and storytelling that I am eager to read more in this service.

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Beautiful

Revisado: 07-16-17

Naomi Novik may not be the most prolific fantasy writer, but she's very likely the best. This novel pulled me into its world (I think it's set in the latter years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) as if it were shooting up roots to entangle me. All the characters were REAL. None of them were stock characters, trotted onto the page to advance the plot.

Some readers disliked the Eastern European accent of the narrator, but it was essential. This story is not set in the English speaking world. Having it read in RP English or its American equivalent would have been more jarring to me. It would have destroyed the aura of otherness about the story.

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