Costisor Emanuel

Brilliant

Revisado: 04-05-22

The story is incredibly rich.
True or not it gives you insight into the world of spying, high stakes deals, cool and calculated minds and Asian wisdom.

Performance is awesome as well. The actor has a firm grasp of many voices and you know who's talking even before the text hints.

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Meh

Revisado: 01-04-22

Prolog really put me off. It was corny.

The narrator, while having a very nice voice, has a very matter of fact way of narrating. It was hard to stay immersed. Sometimes it felt like he was reading a grocery list.

As for the story, often new plots were spun only to be abandoned and picked up way later when you already forgot about them.
Not all loose ends are tied at the end. A lot of questions are left unanswered.

Secondary characters are meaningless. They are one sided and cause no sway on the main characters, which are indeed complex, but they don't seem to evolve.

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so much bloat

Revisado: 12-17-21

Just the same as the rest of them.
Great story overall, but in each book there was always so much bloat.

I didn't care about Kit, nor about the forced character development through action that has nothing to do with the story.

Performance was pretty bad too. The reader has 3 voices tops and more often then not I'm struggling to figure out which character is talking.

Good ending to a very good core story.

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Could not put it down

Revisado: 10-20-21

Only work and the low battery prevented me from continuously listening to it.

It just grips you. The way it is written just makes you want to know what comes next.

Yes, it's over the top sometimes, but it pleasantly surprises you at all times.
There are also speckled humorous moments that make you laugh out loud.

Definitely would recommend.

I never read the Martian, but liked the movie. I liked this one better.
And is sooo much better than Artemis.

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so much potential squandered

Revisado: 10-02-21

first 2 3rds were tedious. no character development, just facts. last 3rd was fun
a movie off of this would probably be good with the right budget

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Cute story

Revisado: 08-19-21

Light and unpretentious.
It gets less believable in the latter parts.

If you're looking for any substance, this doesn't deliver.

If you just want to pass the time, it's cute.

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A must read

Revisado: 05-25-21

I'm not sure how culturally accurate it is with 1600 Japan, but the views expressed are wise and the story most compelling.

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Exposition exposition exposition

Revisado: 06-06-20

And even more exposition. The author feels the need to explain everything, even the obvious.
This is particularly bothersome when you feel you're in the midst of action and you get a pause for some explanation. The second part of the book has less of this, probably due to the more scifi aspect.

Voice acting is pretty bad in the first part.

Overall story was nice.

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This should be a benchmark for performance

Revisado: 07-04-19

Compared to other books I've listened to this was just amazing. It had multiple actors each reading their own character lines, ambient music, pauses for suspense. It was my best listen.

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Take the author's word and don't buy

Revisado: 06-19-19

I love the kingkiller chronicles series and I was OK not having Kvothe in this book and instead gain some insight into Ari and the underthing. But the book does not deliver. Whatever else about the underthing that is not in the other two books can be summed in about 2 pages.
All the insight about Ari is about 3 pages.
You also learn about alchemy, like spit on a substance to make it glass or drop some other substance on some solid to make it glow and that's about it.
There is a very nice surprise at the end, about a paragraph long which I'll not spoil, but that sums up the entire book to just 5 pages and a paragraph. Totally not worth it.
Rogues, just for the Lightning Tree, is way better than this.

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