Chad Hiob

Strong female character power fantasy

Revisado: 11-03-24

I wish I’d read the comments before investing my credit, but my eagerness for a Halloween thriller overruled my usual caution. The tropes of all the typical modern female power fantasy are present by end of the first half. Strong female lead who’s brilliant at everything she does? Check. Evil racist white guy villain? Check
Obviously this novel was not written for me, a straight white man who loves science fiction and horror novels. This is written for teenage girls who kinda like sciencey stuff. It’s a shame because it almost captured my interest but when the main character, who’d been in space for half a year, over powers another character, who’d been in space for only a couple weeks, I’d had enough.(I can only turn my brain off so much)
This says nothing of the narrator who, even at 1.2x, reads in a monotonous drawl that it’s hard to stay focused. And, who miss reads consistently. An example would be when two characters greet each other, “How are?” “Well how are you?” not “Well, how are you?”

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Childish and simple

Revisado: 04-25-24

It’s a Sons of Anarchy fanfic with a fantasy twist. Staring a simp protagonist with a love interest written like an angry teenage girl who don’t need no help from no man. The childish reference to genitals and fat jokes are ridiculous and over the top.

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Mediocre but engrossing.

Revisado: 01-11-24

A few brief observations:
A) Regarding the narrator’s cadence, it’s very slow. This is easily rectified by increasing playback speed to 1.1X. At regular speed the narrators speech is similar to Eor from Winnie the Pooh.
B) This novel has the single most awkward sex scene I’ve ever read. Do yourself a favour and skip forward that scene. Also, the author seems to be under the mistaken assumption that women don’t enjoy sex.
C) The amount of navel gazing, hand wringing and moralizing is WAY to high!! Not a scene happens without the main character Vacillating on if he’s “doing the right thing” or how “he never expected to live such a great life’l blah blah blah.

All in all it’s a decent novel to listen to while busy working, you don’t have to suspend your disbelief too much and there’s no gaping plot holes I can see. I’d listen more but keep that skip ahead button in mind.

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Good book, difficult narration

Revisado: 09-26-22

I love a good book but a narrator can ruin even an enthralling tale. In this case I have to constantly strain to understand what the narrator is saying, I’m not sure if it’s the recording quality or his accent but it sounds to me very slurred and muffled. I’m going to have to ask for a refund because if I can’t loose myself in the story, if I’m constantly straining, or I’m rewinding to catch the narrator, the experience is a waste of my time.

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Warning, major suspension of disbelief required.

Revisado: 10-17-19

I had to stop the story after listening for several hours as my wife was getting tired of listening to me point out the major plot holes.
According to the story a plague rapidly wipes out 95% of the population, in fact it seems closer to 99.9%. This leaves our protagonist alone in an Amarican(this is important) rural small town. He eventually finds his way to forming a small group with a neighboring family and a woman. Now the incredible thing here is, none of these people, or anyone he later comes across, seem affected by the plague physically or more importantly physiologically. Now imagine, you're alone in a world where you've just watch EVERYONE die horribly, everyone. Our hero and band of companions just shrug it off! Ridiculous.
Then once our band of heros establishes themselves in their rural paradise they commence hand wringing about supplies! It's as if everyone who passed away from the plague rudely took their possessions with them! This really drove me nuts. The character start scrounging for supplies, not to horde but to trade! What you might ask in a world devoid of human life would they need to trade for? Apparently moccasins and canning seals!!! In the three months since the world ended I guess all the canning supply's at Target and Walmart went bad? Not to mention all the supplies in people homes.
Then they start scrounging for weapons, and this is why I mentioned the importance of setting the novel in rural America here, why would they need to scrounge? Did the dead take theirs? Amarica is FULL of weapons and ammo!! Target, Walmart, Bass Pro, etc etc. Again, not to mention homes or the U.S. army.
Anyways, after listening for a while I needed to put this one down.

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