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Great Sequel

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2024-11-05

I’m hooked! The narration is my all-time favourite and the story is endearing - this is a great second book.

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Spectacular, addictive, worth it

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2024-11-05

Jeff Hays and Matt Dinniman are an incredible combo. I’ll surely be listening to this series annually.

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Pretty bad on all fronts

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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2024-07-05

The story is just..bad. Tacky, no depth, pacing is bleh, writing is stiff and things are written to impose the info on us. Just..overall, very weak. The narration is not awful but I felt like it made all the faults stand out even more as the MC really feels superficial.

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Great entertainment

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2024-04-30

My true rating is 4.25 - the story was engaging and I was happy to return to it after The Book That Wouldn’t Burn. Personally, it’s not on the same level as the previous which I loved, but the writing has gotten better (and the editing). I look forward to the third book. Narrator: When listening to the first book it took awhile before getting accustomed to the narrator- everything felt a little stiff. After a few hours I was used to it and could ‘feel’ the story - they are amazing at doing different voices, gravelly voices and male interpretations. So it was an easy return for this book, but still a tiny bit stiff in 3rd person narrating.

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Worth the slow, daring buildup

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2024-02-14

It took me a while to get used to the narrator but when I finally attuned I could hear their marvellous talent and ability to voice all types of genders & creatures. The story felt somehow distant in the beginning and I got emotionally attached towards 8hrs (before that I was quite interested just not in love) after that it just gets better and better. I kinda guessed alot of what was going on but that didn’t take away any of the fun along the ride! I Highly recommend - I’ve already pre-ordered the next book.

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Poorly written and childish

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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2024-01-12

The voice actor did a great job! It kept convincing me to keep going until the story just got way too silly - this is kind of written like a preteen story, in the sense that the political and scientific happenings are dumbed down a million, the protagonist is a bratty insolent frustrated ‘teen’ that is constantly validated in her testing of authority - it isn’t believable that she has such a position in her workforce and she doesn’t have much of a brain. Everything in this book lacks depth and realism. If you check other reviews there are some pretty good arguments pointing out plot holes.

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Toxic sexist crap

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1 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
Story
1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2023-09-28

Love interest stalks MC at night watching her nude and it’s supposed to show his love - we shouldn’t be shown this as if it’s something to accept.
Constant Jealousy and possessiveness is used to show the extent of love - that’s just wrong.
Love interest is constantly hiding info and planning everything on his own without including the individual concerned- again, really bad relationship behaviour.

It was certainly a good representation of everything I’d say is wrong, toxic, and damaging in how to be with a partner.
A good case of stupid simplistic storytelling too.
Couldn’t finish it was so bad.

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Gentle science fiction with a relationship

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 2023-06-13

This is my second Maxwell read but first audio listen of their work. The performance was lovely and focused, making parts that could be tedious more meaningful. I know everyone is reacting to the fact that this isn’t ‘romance’ enough, and I’d say it’s a new, modern approach to romance, one that puts its energies on building trust, on getting to know the significant other, and on personal/mutual growth, rather than attraction and sexual tension/flirting which we’ve all been conditioned to expect from decades of stories made with the purpose of demonstrating power through love or the necessity to form a couple just cuz. Maxwell writes with an extreme respect for human life, dignity and rights, which helps me realize some of my internalized aspects (I’d get hungry for ‘more violence’, ‘more sex’ ‘more dramatic’) and it helps me see that we don’t need to diminish humanity in stories to drive points through.
As a science fiction it was fun- I just wish the physicist world building was less abstract, and I felt like I couldn’t ‘feel’ how characters acted within it- often we’d get ‘and they did X’ rather than descriptions of how X could happen. Anyway, it wasn’t my favourite but I was happy for it and would read more from the author.

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