Michael

as always, RC Bray is great

Revisado: 06-13-22

but, sorry, the story didn't capture me. Not really SCIENCE fiction, more akin to fantasy fiction which I am not into. Science does not play even a minor role in this series.

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Finally, a totally awesome part

Revisado: 03-22-22

Part V is the first book in the series that had a congruent plot. plenty of action, and of course, R C Bray as the narrator. this book actually had a closed ending, a place you can drop off and say you read Galaxy's Edge start to finish. Or you can go to part VI. Be forewarned, you lose RC Bray after part VI, I guess he was ready to do something new, just as I'm ready for a new series, a good place to pack my things and move on. If they hadn't charged narrator I probably would have stayed, but under it all, I'm a Bray fan more than a Galaxy's Edge fan. but up until Part VI, this series sucked me in.

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still a lot of plots going simultaneously

Revisado: 02-25-22

but at least I was able to keep up with them this time. Not quite the acid trip of the first.

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a mixed bag

Revisado: 01-31-22

RC Bray, as usual, gets 5 stars. The story is... well... another story. Character development is very good, the characters are engaging, funny at times, likeable. But this particular novel was very difficult to follow. The main character often flashes from present to past like his thoughts are coming out of a blender in random spoonfuls. In the end, you finally come to realize who the main character is, and in the last few sentences the story is tied in to the Galaxies Edge saga. There are still a lot oof unanswered questions and several character roles left undeveloped from the Tyrus Rex story line. Still worth the listen, but I can't imagine anyone other than RC Bray pulling this off and making me look for another sequel.

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I finished it, but I am not sure why.

Revisado: 07-16-21

this book was like a bad dream that you just can't shake out of your head. The plot was way too complex, there were way too many characters, and in the end the author just packages everything as though this was the plan. Too much reliance on drug trips, and almost a subliminal advertisement for smoking. Apparently the author's favorite word is "curling " as in "I felt the first tendrils of smoke curling in my lungs" and "the tapestries of people depicted in various stages of sexual abandonment curled around the walls". The main character confides in the reader how confused he is by the first person point of view,, then suddenly executes a plan that wins the day that wasn't anywhere in his point of view earlier. Too many minor characters to keep track of, another way too many throw away characters. I just found this story tedious and confusing, and it crossed too many moral lines for my liking.

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Buddhism on a bad LSD trip.

Revisado: 05-10-21

I am astounded that I actually read the whole thing. In hindsight, I think I was hoping that eventually it would make sense to me. After the end I was still confused. was it an LSD trip or the ravings of a mad man? Is he alive or dead? One other thing the author fails to address is how humanity, much less a research station in Antarctica, lasted 12 million years. You really have to suspend disbelief, and perhaps some mind altering drugs might said the reader on putting this plot together. Most tedious read I've done in a long time. and I've read some bad stuff.

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Suspend disbelief and science

Revisado: 03-24-21

This may be the first one star story I have ever finished. The result of a really long boring drive and crummy data plan. So many shallow characters, I kept waiting for one of them to step up and become the protagonist hero. Instead all the characters are either irrationally scared, wimpy, dumb, or politically correct vegetarians. The best character was a robot that turns out to be a failed science project, and the bad guy that is a badass Marine becomes the good guy before he becomes the bad guy that eventually becomes the hero that blows himself up for some unexplained reason. The real bad guy, though, the one responsible for hundreds of dead people in a crusade to save his child turns out to be just a good guy that is hated by everyone for killing hundreds of innocent people. The science is as shallow as the characters, making Star Trek seem like a more believable future. Not really my cup of tea. Thankfully there does not seem to be a sequel as it's so popular these days. Just a good old fashioned conclusion... thank God.

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Might make a good movie...

Revisado: 02-04-21

This book reminds me of The Matrix, except I didn't have to read it three times to understand the ending. I am a big fan of RC Bray. I'm not certain this particular story was really in his wheelhouse, but he did drag this book into a 4.5 star review. The book itself moved too slow at times, and usually my review is affected by how many times I have to rewind because I drift off the plot. I listen to audio books while riding a tractor on mind numbingly straight lines for hours at a time, so there is not much to distract me, but I did lose track a few times. There are a lot of plot twists, in the case of this book, right up to the last word. Like the main character, I lost track of reality. Maybe that was the author's intent. The science of the immortality part is pretty sketchy, but it was necessary to pull this plot into the last virtual world, so I do get it. That said, I think that being able to go 4,400 programming hours without eating or changing your underwear is a bit sketchy. Some of the scenarios the main character finds himself in are pretty unbelievable. But since his reality was suspended, like mine, I guess fantastical stuff can be forgiven. I do like RC Bray though. He could probably read War and Peace and I could listen to it. Decent way to pass time, I'd do it again.

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Discordant plot.

Revisado: 12-30-20

this book is two books shuffled together and put in the same folder. One book, the one about Magnus, is a funny, slap happy continual bloodbath, the other with Aiwen, is a remake of Alien, a psychic horror show, and the three stooges mixed into one. the last chapter of the preview of the next book sounded like audio out-takes and made no sense either grammatically or plot-wise. I am not sure why I finished this book, but I can attribute that only to the performance of R C Bray, who's reading style intrigues me. That resulted in a review that is a discordant as the book ( a 2 star review on a 4 star performance). the book gets 2 stars instead of 1 only because I finished it. the performance gets 4 stars instead of 5 because the last chapter of the preview of the sequel (which I will NOT read) gave me a headache. Goofy and scary and horrible and somewhat funny all twinned together into a hairball of a story.

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OK story, decent plot, poor science/performance

Revisado: 08-09-20

This book would have scored better as a kindle book. As an Audible, it is difficult to listen to. The narration is just too slow. And the dialogue of the quantum intelligence characters is slower yet. Besides the performance, the science is questionable. Come on, the hero crashes 2 space shuttles into planets and asteroids and manage to survive? I understand that killing the hero is bad for the plot, but cataclysmic situations should not be the climax except once in a while, not twice. Add to that the main character, Scott (sounds like Gotta by the narrator) is a mauldling morose guy who spends 3/4ths of the book locked in his cabin crying over his lost love. Call that sappy.

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