Lasse Rosenkilde Olsen

Excellent story with a star trek feel to it.

Revisado: 09-12-14

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Aurora is a classic space exploration book about a untested and untested crew on a space ship, throw into an improbably scenario and an impossible situation.

First of all the narration of the book is excellent, clear engaging voice that manage to differentiate the characters from each other and there were to me no glaring hiccups in pronunciation. All in all a better then average reading of the book.

The story has an engaging setting with many potentially interesting connection between the main character and the rest of the characters introduced early creating a somewhat interesting background for the story. Despite this excellent start this is soon dropped and the other characters are either presented as potential love interests or are fairly quickly relegated to semi obscurity in favor of a wealth of female characters that, while potentially strong and individual characters, are more defined by their social relationship with the main character then by their own merits. This character presentation is a bit of a shame as there are several character that have the potential to be interesting but fails to become so as soon as they have been fully introduced to the reader.

While the story starts out engaging it soon falls into a pattern that seems more like the first episode of a star trek show then anything else, while certainly not full and there is plenty of events happening around the characters, the author fails to be original in the story and there were very few surprises for me at any point in the book. That said I will recommend this story to anyone whom wants to experience a story with strong star trek like feel, that focuses around the struggles and discoveries of a captain and his senior crew (first officer, tactical officer, chief engineer, a scientist, and a few minor a science officer and a medical officer), this first book also introduces a group of rebels under the leadership of a Merrick and his translator/second in command the mysterious green-eyed woman.

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Action packed with modern tech against monsters

Revisado: 01-18-12

The audiobook tells us a story about an ancient champion of mankind, who slays monsters in a hospital in New Jersey. While this is the very core of the story, it Matthew Bryan Laube tells this story mostly through the eyes of three characters the Ancient One (Joseph Miller) a cop (Mike Samson) and a Biology Ph.D. student (Ann Melakh). This first person perspective enhances the action and characterization of each of these three characters, which helps elevate this story above a rather straightforward and unsurprising story.

The introduction to the story is less then interesting telling us of the last encounter Joseph Miller had with the monsters. The story picks up as soon as the book moves to modern times and we get involved with the two other characters Mike and Ann and from here it slowly build up until all three characters are at the hospital, the scene of most of the book. Here the monsters begins to rampage and our main characters must struggle (or lay wasteto many monsters in Joseph Miller's case) to survive. It is here the author truly shine and he lifts the audiobook up and makes it an interesting action story. The monsters here are all named after classical monsters (werewolves, vampires, banshee, demons) but are in most ways very different from the classics making them much better at fitting into the tale.

The story seems to want to be a horror story, but falls short becoming more an action story with monsters, where modern technology, usually in the form of guns, blows apart one monster after another setting humans nearly on par with the monsters. Here the character of Joseph Miller again stands apart doing most of his work with blunt objects (like the surgical cast he wears in the beginning), underlining how much different he is from everyone else.

The audiobook ends with setting up the story threads for the next book in the series and the author does an decent job at this and still manages to keep it brief.

B. J. Harrison narrates the story expertly and is able to draw out the essence of each of the main characters making them feel different to the listener, and with his help the audiobook becomes truly interesting and involving.

Overall this is an decent book I can recommend to people interested in action with a touch of the supernatural. The author clearly excels in writing action scenes and uses this to his advantage throughout the book. The narrator takes the story and in the best storytelling tradition makes it come alive for the listener.

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