Tony H

Great series. Performance less good.

Revisado: 11-24-24

All of the books in this series are well written. The storyline is epic and tied into other related book series by this author. I have enjoyed the ensure family of books.

For this series, the audio book performer was good with his reading and different “voices”, but he failed in my opinion due to lack of doing his homework on the other voice actor that recorded dozens of prior books in the larger universe of the story.

This performer pronounced many common names (names of crossover characters, alien races, etc) quite differently than the original voice actor in the priori series. It would have been such an easy improvement to make if he had listened to just one of the prior books to ensure consistent pronunciation.

He also modified key character personalities in the way he acted out their lines. I will not mention the characters to avoid spoilers, but it was also disappointing to see the way the character was performed. It was very difficult to correlate the character being acted out in this series with the character I came to know well in the other series.

Easy fix next time? :)

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Fun Book Series

Revisado: 11-05-17

Really enjoyed the first two books in this series. Just bought book three! Big shout out to the Audible actor. Great work all around.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 10-27-17

Having read the first book in this series, which I thought was very good, I had high expectations for book 2. Unfortunately, the book missed the mark in my opinion.

I’ll start with the good. I like the concept of the book. I like the main character most of the time...and the performance of the narrator was amazing. He made the aliens come to life. Truly exceptional work.

However...almost every major scene in the book had a half-baked feeling that left the adventures of our hero very forgettable. I listened to the audio book over a two day period and I found myself forgetting what had happened earlier in the story simply because the descriptions of the various underwater alien bases, locations around the world, etc. felt bland and were difficult to visualize through the words of the author. I kept thinking things would get better...more interesting...but they didn’t. When we finally got to the climax of the book, I had the distinct feeling that the author just wanted to be done...he rushed and wrote what seemed to be a lazy climax and ending. I think this author has a ton of potential. He just needs to give us a little more of the good stuff he had in book 1.

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Disgusting. Pedophilia...child rape...unnecessary

Revisado: 07-24-16

Unnecessary. Enough said. But I need to have at least 15 words...so here we go. This story was tough to follow, but had plenty of cringe-worth moments where the author decided to take us into dark places where we didn't need to go. Unfortunate.

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Narration was distracting

Revisado: 07-13-16

The story was typical BV Larson and entertaining enough. However, the narration on this book (and the other two books in the series) has a multitude of mispronounced words throughout which I find very distracting. The first two books were not as bad as this one...but after finishing this book, I had to call out the distracting nature of the mispronunciations in this narration. Some examples include: "acuator" instead of "actuator"....."silver" instead of "sliver"...there were many more such mis-reads that changed the meaning of some of the sentences. He pronounced "cache" computer memory as "cash-ay". Computer cache memory is actually pronounced "cash". Other mispronunciations include "strenth" instead of "strength", "hants" instead of "hints", "chassises" (plural) instead of "chassis" (singular), "brazingly" instead of "brazenly", etc. There were many other examples throughout the book.

Also, compared to the narration of Mark Boyett (narrator of other BV Larson books), this recording is harder to understand and has a strange tone to it as if the narrator is talking to me through a long tube.

On a positive note, the narrator's performance of character voices was very well done. However, the mispronunciations and poor tone (EQ) of the recording only allow 2 stars for the narration performance.

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