Ksilvan

An embarrassing display of male ego

Revisado: 10-28-24

The previous books in the series weren't as bad, but this book has dipped into some serious male ego stroking. The series went from an end of the world fiction, to ego stroking of men. It's older, out of shape men saving the world, while the women all lose their brain cells slowly over each book, needing to be saved over and over, and in the end the main character get the pretty girl that is way out of his league.

Previous books in the series weren't this bad. Book 1 had a southern woman that hunted with her father, proving her marksmanship in book 1, and all around kick butt kind of girl to ride beside during the end of the world. The other woman, a mother that ran a homestead on her own, including raising, butchering animals, and organized a local militia on her own. This books seems to have replaced those women with a couple of 4 year old, behind cardboard cut outs of adult women, with audio clips of them saying 'How could I ever live without you' and 'Save the children". They are not the same skilled women written in the first book.

As unrealistic as a bodice ripper fiction for the portrayal of the opposite sex, but for men.

I must be a glutton for punishment because I got the whole series all at once, I am hoping the next book is better.

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Too smurfing Smurf for me

Revisado: 06-29-23

Performance was great, but all the swear words seems like lazy writing.
The swearing was way too repetitive to the point I started imagining all the characters as smurfs.
When creating a whole world with words, there are more descriptive words to paint the picture then the F word all the time, hence smurf writing.

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Horrible Female voices, for a Lustful Story

Revisado: 04-02-20

The story kept me interested until the end and the narrator does have an over all nice reading voice but he needs vocal training on how to read for a female voice badly. The narrator's female voice is between a whining, bratty, 5yr old boy, and a old croon that nags.

At the start of the book, he made the friend use this horrid voice and the main character used an audibly acceptable voice. Once the friend was out of the picture he switched the main character to that voice that is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Because of the beginning of the audible book he demonstrated he can make a female voice sound human, so now I hesitate to listen to the rest of the series because I dread hearing that irritating fake female voice again.

The book is a shadow of the book The Outlander with a modern twist and mixed with magic. The historical details are lacking compared to the other book but because of magic I am willing to give it the fantasy leniency that it all could be a parallel universe to ours.

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The stry was good but the narration falls flat

Revisado: 12-10-19

The story is good but the narrator reads it like a 4th grade science report. The changes in vocal intonation are few and the character's voices are all very similar to the point of not being able to know who is talking.

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The narrator ruined the book

Revisado: 11-09-18

-The book drags for chapters giving fluff and pseudoscience and things the author has found in other books not actually giving any real concrete suggestions to help. In the last chapters the author gives some limited suggestions to help a relationship but nothing new or inspiring from the basic advice of other, if not all, standard relationship books.

-Why the very bad review? I might have thought it was ok if I had read it, but I didn't read this book I listened to it. The Narrator speaks like a condescending grandma, with the tonal inflections of one that is chiding a wayward child. The first chapters were the worse being full on parental lecture mode by the narrator.

It wasn't just me, Males and Females of my household had to endure this narrator's patronizing talk, as I listened to the book. Which resulted in plenty of comments about shutting the book off, returning the book, getting my money back, even a few groans, rolling of eyes, and one young teen yelled at the speaker for narrator to shut their face. The condescending voice is just that annoying. Teens seem very sensitive to this tonal quality of lecturing, reacting very badly, but as an adult I didn't appreciate it either.

**Overall, The author it using the same old advice of a thousand other, better written, relationship books, and wrapped it in a new ribbon. Also Don't listen to this book unless you like grinding your teeth at being lectured at.

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