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Most Enjoyable Story in a Long Time

Revisado: 01-04-25

I truly enjoyed this story. I am always a fan of the narration by R.C. Bry, and Jeremy Robinson is also one of my favorite authors. This was a very "strange" story from the very beginning. One of the main characters (Henry) has a medical condition where he has no amygdala. This condition made him "fearless." I had my doubts as congnitive neuroscience is an area about which I know something. I did a liittle research and learned that there is a rare genetic disorder, Urbach-Wiethe disease, where a person does not have a functional amygdala and experiences no fear. That gave this story credibility.

The issue aside, this is a bit of a wacky story, but if the reader just enjoys the action, the story can be entertaining. I truly enjoyed listening to this. It was crazy and fun.

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Bad LSD trip

Revisado: 12-31-24

I was intrigued by the title, so decided to give this book a try. I was intrigue by the inventiveness of the various story lines. However, even though I realize there is a "book two," nothing was ever resolved within an underdetermined number of branches to this mutant tree. While I have never taken a hullucigenic drug like LSD, this story feels fike the ramblings of someone on such a trip. I kept hoping for ome sort of conclusion, but there was none. I am not going to listed to book two.

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Surprised and now frustrated

Revisado: 12-12-24

I have listened to a number of books by Jason Anspach, and J.N. Chaney, and generally have enjoyed them. R. C. Bray is arguably my favorite narrator. When I bought this look, it was clear that it was a start of a new series. I dislike committing to any series. That having been said, I found this book probably the best of this genre that I have listened to in a very long time. It is never boring. There is a lot of action. While it does not take a genius where the direction of the second book might go, I am now frustrated because I have no idea when that will come out.

If you like military stories set in the future that are well written and narrated by a 5 star narrator, I believe you will like this book.

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Why?

Revisado: 11-26-24

I am a fan of R. C. Bray as a narrator, and I look for books where he has been the narrator. Audible was pushing this book, so I took a chance. My question is why was this book written and why did Mr. Bray agree to serve as the narrator? A large portion at the beginning is essentially a monolog. As we get to the end of the text, while the [spoiler alert] concept of the universe being a computer simulation has been around for a couple of decades, the last third of the book is a mish-mash of scenarios that might be more appropriate for an academic discussion after considerable ingestion of magic mushrooms.

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caveat emptor

Revisado: 11-23-24

I bot this box set because it was at a low price and 61 hours. I wanted something to last until my next credits. Unfortunately, this was a poor choice.
I do understand how hard it is to write a coherent book, but this one has so many issues. The "science" is "pop science" at its worst. More importantly, if there is a plot line, it because fragmented through multiple time jumps. Each chapter starts with short philosophical comments from Dr. Quigley, the scientist who supposed thought up all this stuff, Most are just silly. He never sounds like an academic who could have thought up this technology.
Unfortunately, the narration is also terrible. I do not know how old Mr. Hellegers is, but he sounds very young. There are very few inflections in voice and those that appear seem to be in the wrong place. The best narrators clearly distinguish between the voices of the different characters. I know that is hard, but it became too painful to listen to the entire work.
I made it almost to the end of the first of the four books, but just could not stand to listen anymore.

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Strong Stomach Required

Revisado: 11-02-24

I am not a prudish person, but the extreme violence and detail of that violence in this collection of books is excessive. This omnibus consists of three books. The first two are clearly connected. Book three shifts to a different main character who we met earlier, but the disconnect from Gus, the main character in books 1 and 2, was disconcerting. I kept hoping the author was reconnect Scott and Gus in the end, but book three just sort of peters out with a silly post-apocalyptic ending that ignores a wide range or issues that cannot (should not) be ignored.
R. C Bray always does well. Kudos for him sticking through the grotesque dialogure and imagery.

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Less than expected

Revisado: 11-02-24

I have followed Riyria from the beginning and always enjoy the narration of Tim Gerard Reynolds. I appreciate that this story was trying to give us a deeper look into the relationships of the main characters. The storyline is problematic, however, and some of the relevance of events don't necessarily make much sense.

This book is a prequel to other books, and that is fine, but there still needs to be some clearly connectivity.

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RC Bray

Revisado: 09-18-24

This book never lets up. I liked the ending. The author is far too obsessed with technical specs. It is distracting, but Bray carried it off.

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Disappointing book 2

Revisado: 09-14-24

I have listened to the first two books in this series, The first was a common trope for science fiction about cosmic invaders and how Earth survivors cope. The characters were interesting, and their situations somewhat unusual. The narrator did a good job of enhancing a relatively lackluster story.

In this seond book, howeve, things change. The storyline reverts back to the old storyline of the crazy military who does not care about the civilians, so not the characters must fight the military and the invaders almost become secondary. I stuck with this until towards the end. Len, one of the main characters, suddenly chenged about two hours before the end of this book. The narrator changed his voice. Len was apparently from Nigeria. We don't know if he was native of Niigeria or had American parents, but the change in voice dropped an octave and his manner became more stilted and less sure.

Pammy Mays' transition, however, was so far beyond the ability to suspect disbelief thatthe story was no longer coherent or made sense. I can see the foreshawing the author is putting in place for the future books, but the story is no longer of interest to me.

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Impossible to continue listening

Revisado: 09-06-24

The story is complex and fragmented. The narrator's tone changes very little throughout, regardless of the situation. Scenes switch so rapidly that it becomes difficult to follow.
I do understand how hard it is write and produce and publish a work, but I cannot endorse this specific book are good value for the money. I am unsure if the story is badly written or if the narrator's reading makes it seem that way.

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