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Leave it at Five Books

Revisado: 03-24-20

After thoroughly enjoying the first four books, the fifth book was good but not great. Read the description for this book and was pumped for a romp through Pellucidar. Unfortunately the romp turned into a huge stumble.

This installment horrid story-wise. Even Jeffrey sounds bored with it. For the moment, stick with the first five books and save your credits for something better.

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Tale of Two Books

Revisado: 07-10-19

Kill Team is an excellent book with the writing being consistent with what we've seen through the two books.

Attack of Shadows is an interesting concept but goes way too far into the Star Wars realm of incredulity. No character development. Bad science. Let's take a space faring civilization and leave them with a WWII military and design tactics. And now we have the force working in Goth Sullus.

Attack of Shadows just made me angry. Contrived situations to fit the plot narrative. So an ex-legion can jump on a moving starship, hang on while it's ascending through the atmosphere of a planet and cut through the plating with a torch??? A wall on a moon for defensive purpuses?? Guard towers? A moon that is a gun emplacement??

I kept going with the book because I felt I may miss something vital by skipping to the next book in the series. You won't. Do yourself a favor and just skip it.

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If it wasn't for Ray...

Revisado: 07-01-18

I would have never finished this book. Loved Dennis's Bobiverse books but this book is horrible. One dimensional characters, stereotypes galore, today's politics, razor thin plot and horrible science. Very slow deadliest catch start leads to what should finally give the reader some action they've been craving, but ultimately leads to disappointment. Not sure if this was a book Dennis wrote prior to the Bob books (i.e., his first book), but hopefully this isn't what we have to look forward to in the future.

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Phil Thron

Revisado: 04-15-18

Voice of Artur is perfect. Best performance by Phil yet in Barry's books. Great start to the series.

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Awesome sequel

Revisado: 10-02-17

From: Bill Baugh
To: Rob Dircks
Date: October 4, 2017 8:34 pm
Subject: Re: Don't Touch The Blue Stuff!: Where the Hell is Tesla?, Book 2

Rob,

So I immediately click purchase on your audio book and you know what? I'm treated to another fun and amazing narration by you. I laugh, I smile, ooh and ahh, and you even get me, a 54 year old grumpy male, to feel a little love and happiness inside.

Isn't that what all books should do?

Thanks again for your hard work and narration. Look forward to traveling the ITA with you soon.

Big hugs,

Bill

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Maybe I'm getting too old for this

Revisado: 04-06-17

What did you like best about Sins of Empire? What did you like least?

Enjoyed the first half of the book

What was most disappointing about Brian McClellan’s story?

Not close to his original trilogy. Way too many cringe worthy story arcs that only exist to push the thin plot along the way he outlined. Characters, with the exception of Ben, very flat.

Which character – as performed by Christian Rodska – was your favorite?

Ben

Do you think Sins of Empire needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

It will, but not sure I'm going to jump on it as quickly as the prior books.

Any additional comments?

Not sure how this is getting 5 star ratings from readers of the previous books. Just a thin facade of the Power Mage trilogy.

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This is not 14

Revisado: 06-30-15

What would have made The Fold better?

A much better thought out last third of the book.

Would you ever listen to anything by Peter Clines again?

I will be much more careful in the future.

What about Ray Porter’s performance did you like?

He does a good job reading but is very weak on doing female characters.

What character would you cut from The Fold?

Sasha

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Ryan jumped the shark with this book

Revisado: 07-28-14

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

If the author had not done a complete 180 from Blood Song

What was most disappointing about Anthony Ryan’s story?

See above

Have you listened to any of Steven Brand’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

About the same

What character would you cut from Tower Lord?

Reva

Any additional comments?

Thanks for killing any enthusiasm I had for this series.

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Possible issue with 2nd file

Revisado: 07-28-13

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A better narrator. The second audio file not skipping a number of chapters

What did you like best about this story?

It's an interesting take on detective fantasy

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The narrator does not have a good voice for characters nor for audiobook narration as a whole.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

Any additional comments?

2nd file possibly corrupt

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I wasted my time so you don't have too

Revisado: 01-20-09

Tries to be Pratchett-ish, Adams-ish but doesn't have the narrative wit. F-bombing does not humor make.

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