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Feels more like a filler with a cliff hanger at the end. This should be marked as book 4.5

Revisado: 10-09-24

The stories while interesting bring not much to the table. The dragon culture is hardly fleshed out. More of a draft of a story. Ai crisis felt meh. Bits and pieces of politics also were basically inconsequential and without much plot to them.

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Lack of agency of main character

Revisado: 01-01-22

Nice world setting but story is about people reacting to events and never doing anything about their fate.

Pretty much ever main character just sits there until something happens so they can react.

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Not bad, not great

Revisado: 11-15-21

It's rather dry hard scifi of near future. The characters start of interesting but they don't really have any arcs.

The problems that crew goes through are presented and dealt with without much buildup or twist. Problem => solution and move on. Maybe except one of the last that opens so many possibilities for plot to progress but it also fizzles out very quickly and is not mentioned again.

The lawyer and owner plot seems a bit lacking to the point where it could be cut out completely.

The positive is meta look at venture capitalist overtaking the space exploration and a critical look at the values those people bring to the table. Or better lack of some values. At first I felt book is very much pro privatisation of space, beginning has a lot of glamourificstion of billionaires.

Overall ok read but sadly forgettable book with a cheap setup for part 2 that I will be skipping.

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Nice self contained hard scifi story

Revisado: 05-14-21

I was surprised how much I enjoyed the story. The premise is interesting from get go, bit of mystery , bit of problem solving and sprinkle of adventure. All in space.

Some authors tend to slip in quality after their big break, but that's not the case here.

If you liked Martian, you will like this book too.

Same as Martian this story suffers a bit with 'numeroisis' where all the calculations are presented during problem solving parts i tend to just gloss over it. Not a big deal, it's rather a nitpick. Story ended bit off to me but that's author's choice so again nitpick rather then a fault.

I liked the structure of the story being split in two. The current mainline story and the flashbacks leading up to the start of the current mainline. It made sense narratively and structurally filled the gaps in a seamless way. Usually I am not a big fan of such narrative devices but Andy made it work.

Overall I strongly recommend if you are looking for a fun scify book that is not 'Book 1 of infinite series that will drag on till heat death of the infinity'.

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Easygoing adventure fantasy

Revisado: 04-08-21

It's not LOTR but it's nice adventure story in an interesting world.
I definitely do not regret getting it.

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skippy the meh

Revisado: 09-02-20

finally decided that this is the last one, the book kinda ends where I am going to treat it as conclusion of the story.

I honestly couldn't tell you what happened few books back. the author is really milking the story since around book 5ish. the characters are static, nothing really changes and the 'action' bits are wearing off. In this book I wasn't even slightly exited about action stuff which is few and spread out between fillers.

The big stuff is teased but we get drips of it. instead we are getting hours of bishop acting like a teen around adams for... I dunno 5 books now?
even author is kinda making meta jokes about it.

The problem is that this is a male flick story, humorous with action bits. It has some grand politicing bits but those were a background settings. it feels like that is being brought forth as bigger part of story, aliens their alliances and diplomatic relations, the thing is this feels boring and fillery. it's like the story is trying to change from lighearted sci-fi action into political drama more akin to dune.

Being honest I think the reason I got this far was top notch performance by RCB, he really breaths life into the characters. and is pleasure listening to.

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very enjoyable

Revisado: 08-24-20

Feels like a pitch for a tv series, some episodes are bit disjointed but nevertheless fun experience. I like the world building and characters. I am looking forward to second book/performance/season

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Same old story, starting to get too repetive

Revisado: 11-10-19

I enjoy the series as a soap opera for men but last few books it feels like the story is just waffle and filler with not much actually happening.

I don't think even excelent VA is working anymore for me.

sadly I think the author is set on milking this cow untill it drops dead, given spinnoff was written.

I might listen to one more but if nothing improves I will have to move on.

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Interesting book, recommended despite voice acting

Revisado: 08-14-18

Interesting story that will make you think hard who is right and who is a bad guy.

But me holidays narration is abysmal. Monotonous and badly paced like he is reading it for the first time and sometimes has to stitch in the rest of the sentence. Next time maybe hire a profesional VA.

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Nothing interesting really happened in the story.

Revisado: 08-07-18

There was a light commentary on pointlessness of war and it was quickly brushed away.
The side characters deaths are pointless as they are not really fleshed out to make me care in the slightless.
The main protagonist feels flat and is somehow good at everything and will survive anything universe will throw at him.
Apart from few things it's just a boring go there and shot things plot.

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