M Barnett

What an enjoyable find!

Revisado: 05-03-25

I normally would never go for something like this. But what a joy!
My biggest compliments to the narrator! He really bought the characters to life. Especially the protagonists, just so entertaining!
The storyline is a but difficult to follow at times- there are so many abstract names and places, it's hard to remember them all. I read an online summary after which helped. So I will definitely listen to this again sometime (something I ordinarily would never consider). This seems to be a really well constructed and thought out story. There are endless plots and twists, and you literally only get to the true bottom of the rabbit hole right at the last chapter. I'm very impressed! Well done!

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So incredibly disappointing

Revisado: 03-15-25

I loved the Expanse. However, I did notice a similar trend with the later Expanse books, they got more and more bloated with descriptions, world building and meaningless meandering. I'm 7 chapters in and this book is unbearable. It is just endless waffling, and inches forward at a snails pace. There is so little story line going on, I can't even tell you what it's about. All of that bloated meandering is obviously an attempt to balance out the lack of story telling. This is thoroughly boring. Extremely disappointing. Looks like fame got to Corey's head and he's totally forgotten how to write a captivating plot. Jefferson Mays as always is really great, but even there, is he subconsciously getting fatigued by the same endless meandering?

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Bloated with boring personal anecdotes then bloated with endless doctor talk.

Revisado: 03-27-24

I bet this author is a compete narcissist. All of his personal biographical meanderings are boarding as hell and come across as nothing more than an ego writing.

With regards to the useful content of the book, even the author states something on the lines of; I'm not going to teach you what to think but how to think. However, 1 chapter later you get swamped with chemistry jargon and doctor talk. it quickly became unlistenable. Took a refund.

Unless you are in the medical profession, don't waste your time!

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Brilliant!

Revisado: 12-17-23

Non stop action. No time wasting. Great plot. Enjoyable characters. So glad I found this. I've already downloaded the next 2 books in the series!

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Tedious

Revisado: 12-08-23

For the protagonist nepotism trumps any merit- ugh! 4 full chapters are just endless "I must be dreaming...", "I must be hallucinating...". That is 10% of the book- repetitive waffle! Even once the story gets going its still boring. I read and listen to a lot of sci-fi and I had to quit this about 1/3rd in for a refund. Nothing original. Van is unlikable. Perry is the only somewhat entertaining character, yet he is only an AI and not a real person (too similar in sarcasm to Skippy of Expeditionary Force). I'm guessing this is targeted at young teens who are not well read? The narrator doesn't help lift the book either. I cant believe so many people have listened to this and liked it.

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Overly complicated with too many themes

Revisado: 04-23-20

Aliens, gangsters, Russian spies, and even zombies!

There are some great parts to this book but it ultimately fails with too many themes and it ends up being just too a weird mix of things. The authors have tried to be creative incorporating all these themes, but somewhat fail in the story telling. It has it's moments now and again, but just gets a bit much at times. I don't think I will be pursuing the sequel.

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Extremely creative!

Revisado: 07-23-18

Many popular and recent scientific concepts used through out the book. Reminded me of the Martian a bit with the mechanical approach to solving many problems, but way more fun and varying problems and back drops. I'm really pleased to have found this really smart and creative author!

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What a brilliant story!

Revisado: 11-08-16

Each book in the series gets progressively better. Thoroughly enjoyable. A very well thought out story with a great ending.

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Boring, long, poor narration, couldn't finish it

Revisado: 10-21-16

Characters are completely one dimensional .

The story is completely flawed (spoiler alert) ;
the moon explodes, but there is no massive explosion or even debris that hits the earth.
The pieces of the moon just huddle together for 2 years, to give the Earth time to prepare.
Then suddenly the pieces start moving away from each other drifting to hit earth.
During the 2 year preparation nobody on earth thinks that the "Ark" space ships should not be placed in orbit between the moon debris and the earth. Instead they orbit the earth and then have to deal with the incoming debris.

I am sure this book was targeted at an audience who liked The Martian - a Sci fi story involving problem solving with practical scientific ideas. This book is so long winded and boring it completely fails in that regard. Mostly because the "problems" are completely unbelievable and irrational to start off with, stemming from bad planning rather than unpredictability or suspense.

The female narrator is poor. Trying to pull off gruff men voices is annoying.

I'm half way through this and have to stop it is so tedious.

I am a big Sci fi fan and have listened to many books. This has been the first one I have genuinely not liked at all from the start and is the first Audible book I have been unable to finish.

Absolute junk, spare yourself wasting your time.

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Another epic story by Hillenbrand

Revisado: 09-14-16

Fact is often stranger than fiction, and in this case just a fantastic story which has been really well researched.

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