Leah Petersen

One of my favorite books ever

Reviewed: 01-22-25

Murderbot is amazing. If you haven't heard the entire series get that done. The narrator is an old favorite of mine so it was lovely to hear him again.

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Amazing end to series, awful narration

Reviewed: 12-10-24

Martha Wells is one of my favorite authors ever. But this last book in the series is narrated by a different narrator than the first four. That happens but the narrator made no effort to pronounce names the same way the other did, and made voices that were high and fast in the first book deep and slow, and vice versa. It made everything and everyone sound and come across so differently. Honestly, just try to read the book. Otherwise, you mostly get over it eventually.

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Lovely story, one of my favorite narrators.

Reviewed: 11-29-22

Novelette only so not long, but such a cute story. I love the way she combines personalities and backgrounds to make everything so perfectly plausible and redeem past wrongs with skills and experience they didn't have to avoid it in the first place.

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A Great Elliot Read Beautifully Read

Reviewed: 01-30-21

Kate Elliott is an always-buy author for me and this standalone didn't disappoint. The narration really makes the audiobook version a must have. Truly excellent.

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Read the book instead

Reviewed: 01-25-21

I'm a huge fan of R. Cooper and some of her audiobooks are divine. This is not one of them. It's a great story so please go buy the book if you don't have it. But the narrator is awful for this story and takes what should be shy, sweet, and smoldery and makes it full of exclamation points. Maybe you won't mind if you haven't read the book, but I've got plenty of her audiobooks that I've never read on paper or ereader and am head over heels in love with them. I think this one I would have written off sooner if I hadn't kept hanging in there trying to recapture the love I had for the written version.

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Amazing Worldbuilding

Reviewed: 01-12-21

I've followed Hurley since she started and she's one of the great worldbuilders, up there with Sanderson and N.K. Jemison. This one made me sit and ponder so many times trying to both figure out the world and being fascinated by how much sense it made while still being entirely alien. The storyline is not formulaic, even though that could have been fine in the setting but the ending subverted my expectations while still being entirely consistent. I loved it. I wish it were a series.

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Lovely Continuation

Reviewed: 01-05-21

Great follow up to the Whyborne and Griffin books by one of my favorite authors. she delivers every time.

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Wonderful story. First two narrated beautifully

Reviewed: 10-24-18

I had already read this trilogy before I purchased the audiobooks and it's as good as I remembered. Not Berg's best work, but still worth the read. The narrators of the first two books are superb. The narrator for Dante in the third book is so appallingly bad I almost gave up on it. Only the fact that I was engrossed in the story already, and the occasional reprieve of the POV changing back to one of the first two narrators, kept me going.

I had to turn up his chapters to 1.2 speed and it's still rather slow. He reads as if each sentence is the only one he's aware of and he over-enunciates the odd word and is overdramatic with it because it's the only chance to impress you. It's loathsome. I've learned to put up with bad writing or narration if the goal is worth it but it's really bad.

Honesty, just get the first two and content yourself that the lingering plot issues are resolved in the third book. Better yet, buy the book and read it. The story good. I'm simply shocked at how awful this last narrator is.

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One of my favorite books ever

Reviewed: 04-11-18

I've read or listened to this book in every form and I'll still read it again and again. So beautifully written it hurts. Narration of the audiobook well done.

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Amazing story, beautifully read.

Reviewed: 05-16-17

If you haven't experienced an Emma Newman book, you're missing amazingness. Get Planetfall before this one but then definitely get this one. Gut-wrenching and gorgeous and written with real talent and hunanity. Don't miss it.

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