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An interesting concept with mediocre execution.

Revisado: 02-21-24

The premise and plot are interesting. However the author crammed in as many progressive tick boxes and social theories as they could watering it down and making it come across more like a political religious pamphlet than an interesting world and story, and the narrator consistently reads like she's half asleep. Which sort of works for the main character, but not the others, and all of it starts droning on by the end.

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Political propaganda is not entertaining.

Revisado: 01-24-20

The story had potential, if the writers had not decided it was more important to overtly shove in their political views and create ridiculous straw men characters of those they disagreed with to act as punching bags than focusing on telling the story and making it entertaining.

One can only roll their eyes so many times at any non-leftist view and it's adherents being idiotically misrepresented before it stops being worth it to endure the dumb plot-irrelevant tangents in the hopes of the actual story picking up at some point.

A pity for the narrator who was doing a decent enough job, minus a few jarring cuts and tone shifts. Hopefully next time they'll chose better content to lend their voice talent.

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Worst. Voice choice. Ever.

Revisado: 01-24-20

If the story had been even the slightest bit less interesting I would've quit listening and been glad of it. The heroine sounds like one of those stereotypical obnoxious secretaries with angled glasses who holds nothing but contempt for her job and those she has to deal with, droning on and on in a nasally monotone. The male lead, despite supposedly having a British accent called for, sounds at best like a muddled Jamaican. Literally every character (including those two) sound like they're half asleep, special needs, drugged, or some combination thereof. Pacing is so bad that you almost have to wonder if the narrator wasn't being paid by the hour and purposefully dragging everything out to squeeze a few more dollars out, if not for the terrible inflection making it apparent they likely aren't competent enough an actress to pull it off.

Understand in which the fact I was able to listen to the end despite the near constant desire to rip off my ears, was purely on merit of the story being one I found interesting. Though admittedly not the most original, it was decently entertaining and written well enough that- if it had been better performed- it would've been quite enjoyable indeed.

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Excellent, right up until the last chapter

Revisado: 12-27-19

Entertaining and fun as it was, and well worth listening, the blatantly manufactured attempt at emotional manipulation at the very end was so dumb it made me cringe through the entirety of the scene that was supposed to be dramatic.

* spoiler alert*

I mean really, having a supposedly strong and intelligent woman fall utterly to pieces and become a weepy mess because her still living boyfriend got some cuts and burns, five minutes after proving she has the healing power to restore a pile of bones to a fully fleshed breathing, speaking, powerful human? Just long enough for him to stop breathing? How dumb do you really have to be to think that's even the slightest bit realistic.

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Predictable, but entertaining.

Revisado: 12-13-19

The story would be better if the motivations and characters were less dumb. It's enjoyable when there's clever plotlines with just enough hints to guess at what's happening- less so when it's so obvious that the characters must have concussions not to have done so themselves at the same time. And when you get to the reveal of the motivations of the villains and find it amounts to ridiculously overreacting emotional nonsense with no real fault in the protagonists worth mentioning since the author can't let them actually be responsible for anything bad, it's honestly a bit of a let down.

It is, however, well performed- and entertaining enough to hold interest- and at least wraps things up solidly.

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Better without the progressive fetishism

Revisado: 12-09-19

I can only think the author chose to write in this time period out of a fetishized obsession with progressive theory and a desire to make heroes of feminist nonsense- due to an understanding that it isn't a problem people actually face in any real extent anymore, and the misguided belief that it was faced in the form of every attractive man in the past being a misogynistic autocrat who had to be made to change his ways.

It gets tedious working through the straw-man caricatures she puts up as foils for her right-thinking virtuous heroines every. single. time.

But- it is what it is, and if you can slog through that mess it's interesting enough.

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Nice story, questionable accent

Revisado: 12-09-19

It rather breaks the immersion when the teenage European descended girl sounds like a middle aged African descended woman. The story was interesting and the performance skillful apart from that choice, but it really did take some work to get used to it.

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Enjoyable overall

Revisado: 12-02-19

I do wish authors would stop trying to shove progressive moralizing and propaganda into their works dealing with other time periods where they don't fit and wouldn't have been practiced, but once you get past that grating nonsense, the story writ large is enjoyable and the characters interesting.

It is also quite well performed- though there are a couple spots where I might have preferred different intonation and nuance, for the most part the voices fit. I will be continuing the series with pleasure.

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Obnoxious accents are obnoxious.

Revisado: 11-29-19

The choice to do the entire part of the female lead- I.e., the majority of the production- in a barely intelligible faux French accent was, quite frankly, a horrible one.

And in contrast having the male lead with little to no accent, sounding much like the performer was simply reading it straight, had me utterly confused when I discovered it was supposed to be the male lead and not in fact a woman as voiced him.

If anything, it should've been the other way around, reading the female part straight and the male with enough of an accent to at least make it somewhat clear it wasn't a woman's inner monologue during his lines, but alas...

If you can get through the ear cringe the story setting itself is interesting enough, though the forced tension with the antagonist and the female lead's thoughts and decisions pertaining to such just seem utterly dumb, and the story arch as such doesn't really happen and has no conclusion- indeed ending somewhat by surprise halfway into where one would expect the story to be.

I may pick up a continuation if I get bored since it comes with the subscription, but it's more for fondness of the genre which the author does portray decently than for the story itself, or certainly the performance- and certainly not something I'd pay for separately.

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Honestly, pretty dull.

Revisado: 11-23-19

It had potential in the idea and setting... but wasted it in what became a tedious slog through a morass of political and sociological opinions thinly veneered with lifeless characters and a plodding half-baked mystery that didn't lead to anything interesting. I ultimately finished it more because I didn't have enough in my library to switch to something else until payday, rather than because of any inherent entertainment value in the piece itself.

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