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Solid Story, Brutally Painful Narration

Revisado: 07-12-24

Incredibly compelling and gripping plot, it was all too easy to see these story lines potentially playing out in real life.

That being said, this was probably the most painful Audible narration I've ever inflicted upon myself. The narrator's droning cadence and over-enunciated pronunciation style often came across as a tenured, burned-out kindergarten teacher reading a Dick and Jane book to their class just prior to nap time. Even listening at 1.25 speed, it was a slog to continue listening at many points.

To finish critiquing the narration, I cannot emphasize enough the need to consult with a military veteran or three to ensure proper pronunciation of military jargon and acronyms.

Apologies for spending most of this review ripping on the narration but that's my biggest take away from this book. This narrative performance was a terrible disservice to the author and what was otherwise a great story.

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Weak Sauce

Revisado: 02-02-23

Awful. Struggled to finish. Feel betrayed by the GE Universe with this one. Do better.

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meh

Revisado: 07-07-22

Incredibly predictable and lazy story telling. Milking this worn out and tired series for the last few pennies. The Oceans 11 ending was such a cop-out, a short-cut for a writer who needs to find new ideas and energy. I hope the series recovers but this is 2 stinkers in a row now. No more pre-orders from me.

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Out with a whimper

Revisado: 06-15-22

What an incredibly anticlimactic and disappointing ending for what was, up until this book, one of the best sci-fi serials I'd ever listened to.

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Decent story

Revisado: 12-29-21

Was going along really great until towards the end when 'evil' Western capitalism was slammed in favor of the ebullient and virtuous socialist democracy, whatever that means. Author just had to throw in with the globalist narrative. Won't be patronizing this author ever again. Have fun with your build back better.

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So much unnecessary language

Revisado: 06-13-21

Super-duper disappointed by the prevalent sprinkling of F-bombs throughout. Why? That adds nothing to the telling of the story. Please remove that in future stories.

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losing steam

Revisado: 04-05-21

By far and hands-down the weakest and most flimsy of the Galaxy's Edge series. Seems like the authors may be running out of ideas. It was an effort to even bother finishing this one.

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Awful Narration

Revisado: 03-21-21

What the narrator tried to pass off for as Irish brogue made most of lieutenant Owen's dialogue completely unintelligible. Just stop. That just about ruined the whole book for me. I finally just stopped rewinding, trying to understand, and just gave up. Might have been a better book if I could have actually understood a significant portion of the dialogue.

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Sure do miss RC Bray

Revisado: 01-31-21

Story was solid. Narration was very, very meh. Don't change horses in midstream - and if you do change narrators make sure they pronounce character names consistent with the previous versions! Audio mixing engineer for this one should be fired. inconsistent gain settings, cut-ins and edits etc were very obvious and super distracting. Seems like this narrator has/had frequent sinus issues - gross.

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Neat concept but...

Revisado: 12-16-20

The ultimate idea and ending of this book are pretty intriguing. However, the execution of the story was terrible. The story bogged down again and again (I almost quit the book during the ridiculous Prince battle scene.)

If you loved Ready Player One and hold Ernest Cline in high regard, do yourself a favor and skip this book, lest all that come undone as you slog and trudge your way through this one.

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