OYENTE

Stepan Chizhov

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Much better than book 3 and even book 2

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-25-24

Did the author lose a bet and had to pack a many words "monkey" in the first chapters as possible?

And then there were goblins. Lots and lots of goblins.

Just to be sure that everyone gets it: lots of monkeys, but even more goblins.

On all seriousness, I promised myself not to continue following this series after the decline of storytelling in book 2 and the compete disaster that was book 3. But I read another review and it seemed that it's author had struggled just like I did. Still, they mentioned that the fourth book was much better. And I can confirm that.

While there is room for improvement of the style, language, and dimensionality of the characters, this book can be a quite enjoyable listen.

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Nice novel, but could have been so much better...

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-24-24

It isn't that easy to find a harem fantasy novel that is written well, with. And this book seemed like it was just the right thing. At least until the middle of the book when the investigation part got full attention. After that moment it felt like the main characters are kids who were put in young adult bodies only to mage the spicy content legal. The actions and deliberations of the characters are at the level of the 6th grade at best.

Also, why does the author have hint a dozen of times that a woman in glasses can't be considered beautiful? That's just bizarre...

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Brilliant, as usual!

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-13-23

This time, I made myself not to listen to the whole book just in two days to spread the joy over a long period of time. Can't wait to see the 11th chapter published on Audible!

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Interesting mix of sci-fi themes

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-13-23

That's the first book by Djuna I listened to, and I'll definitely look for more books of the same author!

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Abusive narcissistic parenting at its best

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-12-23

It's not news to me that Orson Scott Card is a bit problematic author. Still, more often than not, I enjoy reading his works. The most recent I read/listened to is Duplex (2021,) a continuation of Card's Micropowers Series.

The book should be delivered with a bunch of warnings:
- Denial of body autonomy to a woman/wife
- Propaganda against choice
- Kids/wife considered property by a father/husband
- Aggressive behavior towards children, bullying, distant parenting

Card is great in transferring teenager's angst. And he's good at depicting the drama of a household where teenagers live. However, here, most of this drama and abusive behavior of parents (mostly of the father) is depicted as normal, and the mother that decided to make a very hard decision is blamed for everything going awry.

Moments when the father explains that his son is poor because he doesn't possess anything and that everything he has in life is only due to his parents' efforts are true to life. But they also are cruel.

Also, explaining to your son that he owes you everything, because without the father, he wouldn't even exist is quite narcissistic: children never ask to be born. It's always a decision parents make (or don't make) and never the kid's responsibility that they have been born.

All in all, I have never been as disappointed by Card's book before.

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Every next book gets worse than the previous

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-07-23

it's quite impressive how the quality of writing and storybuilding degrades in this series with every next book. Not that the level of the first book was too high, though. Still, it's a bit upsetting as the original permise is quite entertaining. Don't think I'll be waiting for the fourth book.

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Could have be much more engaging and interesting

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-04-20

Predictable from the beginning to the end. In also struggled with the narration style quite a lot.

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Anakin Skywalker is just unbearable...

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-15-18

Darth Vader is so much better... as a character... in this book...

Also had to speed it up. The second time it happened to me with the new canon books (the first was the prelude to Solo). To boring if listened with the original speed.

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Performance might have been much better

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-15-18

It was fun to get all these additional details of the story. However, Thompson's performance becomes really strange when he describes actions of young female characters. This almost spoiled the whole experience.

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