Tim

My last one of the series...

Revisado: 12-31-24

My interest for this series has been waning for at least the last 4 books. Heavy handed plot devices, authors with a laughable understanding of martial arts, tactics and clandestine activities, and melodramatic verbiage that is amplified by the narrators smarmy reading.
this last book has me convinced that the authors replied heavily on open AI and/or GPTs to compete the book. there are so many hyperboles and unnecessary descriptions. This book especially feels like they asked AI to make a 40,000 word book into a proper novel at over 70,000 words.
I'm done, the series jumped the shark for me about 3-4 books ago.

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Great books , it's always tough when a series switches narrators.

Revisado: 04-02-24

I love this series, Brian Hutchinson created some incredible character voices, Eric Burgher is good, but between the first few books of this series and and the Silencer series, I just got attached to Hutchinson's voice.

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Great book and story

Revisado: 09-14-23

One thing that I loved a lot about this story is it didn't go nuts with the military jargon and gun/gear/martial arts "moves" fetishizing. the story was great, had twists and turns that weren't predictable, the performance was great and it had good characters. and... just enough gear talk to stay within genre, but not over the top.

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Weak story, no character development.

Revisado: 07-05-22

I love Mark Greaney's gray man series, this book is not like those. it's also one that I could not keep listening to. I had to stop after about hour 3 to cleanse my ears with better stories in my library. I'm glad I didn't spend a credit on it.

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Brick makes me feels things. Orphan x my jam

Revisado: 03-23-22

Scott Brick is so good. period.
The Orphan X series is something that I look forward to. I learn from these characters, and bond with them. Enough said.

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follow the 80/20 principle with this book

Revisado: 01-27-22

Long winded and opinion-based application of this principle. The author even mentions that most books are 80% fluff; this is one of them.

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Story is blah and narrator not at all right for it

Revisado: 06-05-21

This is the genre of audiobooks I listen to; but this one falls flat. The story itself is pretty bad, characters that I don't care about, and plot that has some plausibility to it, with a bunch of stuff that makes it feel like the author is making up on the fly. this genre also has a sycophantic aspect to it with weapons and fighting, but the fighting info in this story is circa 1987 and does not represent a current knowledge of combat sports. the banter and dialogue in this book is often boring. the villain is not at all believable if you know anything about anatomy and physiology, even in folks who are contortionists.
The narrator: it's like the narrator is playing an actor, playing an ad executive I'm a film from the the 1950's. His tone and intonation detract from the story. this, combined with what I wrote above, makes for a story that made me quit. I kept going through chapter 5 only because the story is set where I grew up, but I had to stop.

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I enjoyed the story and performance

Revisado: 03-24-21

I really do love performace-basedaudibke books. This one is in line with the mystery/investigative genre that I usually listen to and the story was compelling, kept my interest, characters were developed well enough, and the performances were great.

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Not as much a history of bourbon

Revisado: 03-24-21

This course is more of an essay about distilling alcohol with historical implications than it is a strict history of bourbon. There is definitely a slant toward bourbon, and references to it's history, but I expect ed to know more about the origin, or at least the various origin stories, and an overview of the historical data on bourbon.
I did enjoy the course though and listened to it while drywalling. it even prompted my to pour a stiff glass of top shelf bourbon I had in the cabinet after.

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Good story, bad performance.

Revisado: 02-28-21

I really like the Luke Stone series, the forging series was good but the narration suffered. It's like the books were ready Alan Alda and the accents were Alan Alda, doing Chinese or other east Asian individuals, doing middle warren accents. pretty much all accents or women sound breathy.
But, this is another Forging of story and it's a good one. sets up the full Luke Stone series well. luckily the full series is ready someone else.

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