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Good start to a new series

Revisado: 11-29-24

I generally like Marc's writing so I never really hesitate to get one of his books. This one does start of a bit slow and builds allot if back story in the beginning all the way up to the last third of the book - maaaaaaybe a tad too long for my taste hence the 4 stars. But I expect that will get allot of character development and backstory out of the way for the next few books so I am quite looking forward to reading them.
The narrator was new to me, I enjoyed his reading style, I think it fits well to the rype of story the series appears to build up to.

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solid stoey, good character development from book 1

Revisado: 04-24-24

I enjoy the story, but question the choice of the narrator. His narration voice is fine, his technical skills are good. However, his character voices sound more like caricatures rather than actual personas. To me it makes the story sound like a book for children rather than adults. The book is still overall enjoyable and worth it, but could have been better.

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another great book in the series

Revisado: 12-05-23

I love this series, there is not one book that ever disappointed. when listening I some5 look at the time left in the story and get sad when it counts down further ...
also, the story is great but the series greatly benefits from the performance of John Lee who is just the perfect voice actor for it. wich Incoukd manipulate time so I good travel forward and get the next book today ...

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sorry to.say: weakest book of the series...

Revisado: 10-14-23

I've read all of Jay's books and have always enjoyed them. This one I could just not get myself to even finish.
if one could cut out the ever repeating (after the firat monolog there is never anything new to it) inner monologue of each *and *every *character including the robots, this story could shet 4 or maybe 5 hours in length. i really have to wonder where the editor was in all of this. I assume you have to hand over a certain number of words/pages worth of story but in this case making it shorter would have greatly improved the outcome.

I stopped with 5 hours remaining, it was just unbearable to me.

Sorry Jay, I am looking forward to upcoming books and series.

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Another great book in the series

Revisado: 09-11-23

the longer a series goes on, the more likely it is a weak story might come along - not in this universe though. the story is well written, the characters get constant development and don't just stay the same in perpetuity. The story lines in this book also make overall sense in the larger development of the story's universe and you get a few new characters which is what I enjoy.
Performance but Steven Brand is - as usual - really, really great. a good part of why I enjoy the books so much is definitely also dues to Steven's performance.

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Great background creating story

Revisado: 11-13-22

loved the story, the narrator is great, but I will just have to step on my soap box for a moment - if you have several different narrators performing stories in the same universe/series then the producers really, really have to get the pronunciation or names and places consistent across all books. It hits me like a hammer in the head every time I hear a different pronunciation....
just my pet peeve maybe, but it irks me enough to write this much in a review.
The story is still great the the narrator is the right choice for this story , and i don't regret getting the book and enjoyed listening to it.

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never disappoints

Revisado: 10-10-22

the combo of Terry Mancour's story telling and John Lee's narration really never disappoints. I enjoy these .5 volume that Terry outs out. They are a great way of putting out background and peripheral story info that actually make the main bike more interesting without having to make them really long by having to add allot of "color" which I often find distracts from story.

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Good ending to the series, if somewhat long-winded

Revisado: 09-16-22

i have read/listened to each of the books in the series and lived all of them. this is the first I feel i can't give a full 100%.
The author tends to give the characters long and in-depth inner monologues that explain allot of their thinking and - at times - that could get a bit long. in this book though, the characters repeat themselves over and over and over again. I feel that this book could easily loose 15 - 20% of unnecessary fluff and still be the same great story. knowing this ahead of time I still would have bought it, but I would had much less reason the say the words "Get to the frigging point, we've heard this already x times" so many times under my breath.

still happy to have listened to it though, great tie-in to other series which i totally did not see coming.

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narration let a decent story down

Revisado: 07-30-22

i remember reading this book first sometime in the mid 80s and loving it. I actually read it a few times. i had not touched the book since then but always fondly remembered it and since I almost solely listen to books now got this one out of nostalgia.

Could.Not.Finish.It.

Ggranted the story aged a bit and the technology discussed in it - that for it's time was well thought through - does not quite stand up to the reality of history. That would have been ok, there are allot of.boka you could nitpick on like that.

But the narration is just God awful. what a horrible choice of narrators and what a terrible job they did. I blame whoever was the producer, i think that the voices themselves were OK, it was how they were used.

what a shame, i was looking forward to this.

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if I could give more than 5 stars I would

Revisado: 07-22-22

jeez ... trying not give away spoilers but just wait for Sargent Joe to try all about his wife. that scene alone is worth buying the whole book.

just buy t huh is one, don't think. just get it.you won't regret it.

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