PingThePong

Great series, fantastic narration

Reviewed: 01-14-25

Very fun series. The author has done a great job keeping the vibe of the whole thing very positive and optimistic, without making the storyline cheap and cliche. The narrator is the same throughout the series, and is very, very good at capturing the characters' characters

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uplifting & fun

Reviewed: 12-11-24

Interesting and engaging story.
Can't say I've really ever enjoyed such light and uplifting reading/listening prior to this. Usually books like that just aren't interesting, or engaging enough... this series hits all the right spots so far. Definitely moving on to the third book.

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Great, incredibly positive

Reviewed: 12-08-24

Not a genre I'm too familiar with, but enjoyed this book tremendously. Very positive vibes, with lots of humor. Definitely looking forward to the sequels

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Better than the first book

Reviewed: 09-21-24

A lot more interesting, and better written than the first book in the series.
The narration is also a bit better, though it's still by the same guy, and still sounds like every word is an exclamation immediately followed by a period... a bit disjoined to my ears.., and somewhat hard to get past, initially.
But, if you liked the first book and didn't mind its narrator, then you'll very likely like this one better.

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Excellent, just as the prior two seasons

Reviewed: 07-21-24

Incredibly well narrated/acted by all involved.
The story is quite interesting and engaging, but the acting and the sound work (effects, music, etc...) really make this work truly great.

There were a few bits, mostly in the first ⅓rd of the audible, where the sound was a bit off - jumbled artifacts, and some parts where the voices were unintentionally drowned out by the background noise/sound effects. Hopefully it's something they can fix, though it didn't detract from the experience much.

All the "Seasons" so far have been phenomenal. I highly recommend they are experienced in order - if you like the first then you'll very likely dig all three.

Can't wait for the next!

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Unnecessarily hard sci-fi

Reviewed: 07-18-24

It's interesting to see what near future sci-fi, published eight decades ago, had predicted about the world that we ourselves will occupy in just a couple decades.

Although I appreciated that the main characters weren't merely all-around heroes, and that they exhibited both good and bad, as well as questionable human qualities, I found it hard to like any of them. Pretty much everyone of note that was mentioned in this book, was quite immortal and highly hypocritical.

The aspects that made this a "hard" science fiction, made it seem more like a documentary or biography - which could very well be appealing to some. Not so much to me.

The narrator did a pretty good job with distinct personalities' voices, and had fairly few moments in which he mixed the voices up. Big kudos for reading almost all of it using a foreign accent.

It's kind of difficult to judge quality of an "outdated" sci-fi story... but NOT considering it's potential original importance, and impact on the sci-fi genre overall.... I was pretty bored.

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Despite running along age-old tropes, actually really quite imaginative and, damn hurry up with the sequel already..

Reviewed: 07-08-24

The breadth of Adrian Tchaikovsky's repertoire continues to astound me. I haven't come across another author that has been able to create such mature (for lack of a better word) narratives, in so many vastly differing ends of the fantasy & sci-fi genres.
With a single exception, every book of his that I've read and listened to (prob. close to 3/4 of what's available on Kindle & Audible from him so far) is a master work - remarkably well thought-out, original in most ways, and enrichingly imaginative.

This specific book, for example, is in essence just another fantasy adventure... a hero and her band of unlikely allies, having a go at some villains to save the world.
Just based on that summation, had it been by pretty much any other author, I would have likely skipped over it and turned on the teli instead.

And... not that this story is world shattering, or anything of the sort... But, maaan, Tchaikovsky really knows how to tell it.


The narration is top notch as well... not certain, but I think the same narrator has done at least some of Tchaikovsky's space sagas as well, and she is very, very good.

Looking forward to the sequel!

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clever and entertaining

Reviewed: 06-07-24

I love British humor, and this is very much it.
Despite seemingly being unable to simulate a female voice, the narrator/author did a very good job making his characters come to life.

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mostly more of the save

Reviewed: 06-02-24

This and the previous couple books are mostly just more of the same. Which isn't necessarily bad, but I personally hoped for a bit more development/growth from the main character, or something more original and unique from the story arch.

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still good

Reviewed: 05-17-24

I can't say why, exactly, but I enjoyed the story told in this third book a little less than the first two. Still good though

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