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Alien: Into Charybdis
- A Novel (The Alien™ Series, book 9)
- De: Alex White
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,799
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,650
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,643
“Shy” Hunt and the tech team from McAllen Integrations thought they’d have an easy job - set up environmental systems for the brand new Hasanova Data Solutions colony, built on the abandoned ruins of a complex known as “Charybdis”. There are just two problems: The colony belongs to the Iranian state, so diplomacy is strained at best, and the complex is located above a series of hidden caves that contain deadly secrets.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Did not Like
- De Timerunner en 04-23-21
- Alien: Into Charybdis
- A Novel (The Alien™ Series, book 9)
- De: Alex White
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
Poorly Written Story
Revisado: 04-23-25
I really wanted to like this book. I loved Cold Forge, but this one is just... not good? I don't wanna say it was horrible, it just has issues. First, the stereotypes got annoying rehashing modern geopolitics. Some of the MCs are just straight up annoying, like the feminist character.
Acid blood all of a sudden became omnipotent and speads like fire. It seems the writer got an acid fetish on this one, like a drop on the leg melted the hand that touched it and the chest they tried to wipe it on. It's Acid, not some sort of sticky slime.
The writer seemed to try too hard on writing marines, instead kinda made them seem like a shabby operation with good equipment. And there seemed to be far easier ways to have achieved their goals.
The reader seems to only have about two or three voices, but did some good accents. Not the worst, but also had poorly written characters to deal with.
This is just one of those books I was hoping the xenos would just win and get it over. The highlights are the connections to Cold Forge, they work well and follow up on the finally of that book.
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Terror World
- Zombicide: Invader Series
- De: Cath Lauria
- Narrado por: Ann Sprinkle
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 4
Scientist Dizzie Drexler is on the mission of a lifetime: exploring a strange planet named Sik-Tar, in the company of a mysterious alien crew. The dig looks like a dud, until they stumble across an ancient spaceship, filled with arcane tech. What could possibly go wrong . . . ? Everything: opening the spaceship activates an unimaginable horror: a form of ravenous mold which possesses the skeletons that litter the spaceship with the desire to kill, spread, and consume every living thing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Slow Build to Underwhelming Finish
- De Jake L. en 04-17-25
- Terror World
- Zombicide: Invader Series
- De: Cath Lauria
- Narrado por: Ann Sprinkle
My least favorite Zombicide novel.
Revisado: 03-28-23
This has to be the worst of the Zombicide novels, the rest were great, this one not so much. It also doesn't feel like Invader.
It starts off really slow and remains that way for most of the book. A member of an alien species decides to run an expedition to an unexplored planet because of a distress signal. Knowing there is some link between the Xenium and Xenos, they only decide to send one soldier amongst the 6 or so members. One being a new and weird alien race new to the series, based I think on centaurs. Makes the cover feel misleading. And when the crap hits the fan, it's all at once with a rush to the ending. Then ending is so contrived it feels like a large portion of the story was missing.
I'm not much a fan of the narrator. She seems to only have the range of young girl to raspy grandmother. I had a hard time taking Grayson seriously. He sounded like a chain smoking grandmother trying to be British. The slang he'd use occasionally seemed really forced because of this.
The main character, Dizzy, uses they/them pronouns. Nothing wrong with that, just the author needs to remember to use their name when also referring to the group in the same thought. A couple of times, it got confusing on to whom they were referring to.
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