Steve

Great book, narrator worse than one for books 2+3

Reviewed: 08-21-23

I am only intellectually aware of the cultural revolution. I think it's a big part of the opening chapters to give someone a reason to betray their species? Anyway, once you're past that, I hold this series way up there amongst my favorites in the Sci-Fi world. Very interesting conceptually and well paced.

I am not a fan of this narrator, though PJ Ochlan who does books 2 and 3 is fine. Almost bad enough to make me less likely to relisten in 10 years, sort of like the first narrator for Wool (Hugh Howey's series).

Hopefully this one will get re-recorded some day with a different narator.

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Kinda Eh?

Reviewed: 03-05-23

Of the 3 I bought, this one seems a bit more formulaic and not a great bang for the buck. I stopped at this point.

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Good, not great. Not as good as some of his others

Reviewed: 08-15-22

I really enjoyed the Bobiverse, including Heaven's River, and Singularity Trap. It was thus with high hopes that I listened to Roadkill.

It's amusing and has a few interesting ideas, but it felt a little derivative (Sheldon sentient AI is a bit too similar to Skippy from Alanson's Expeditionary Force books).

I continue to think Ray Porter is a very solid narrator.

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Enjoyed it

Reviewed: 10-17-21

First to both this author and narrator. I noted some positive and negative comments so I listened to the sample first.

The story has some twists and turns and interesting sub-species of human, and is generally interesting.

I found the narrator to be fine. Not at all annoying, though not significantly above average. I'd say he neither adds nor detracts to the story.

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A good speculative read

Reviewed: 04-09-21

I finished the entire series about a week ago. It's a fun "what if" world. The 2nd book isn't quite as good as the first and is focused on the inter-species conflict, and thus ends up a skosh closer to military sci-fi in nature.

I enjoyed the book, and by the end of it, wanted to know how it'd all turn out.

I've listened to the entire Lost Fleet series, also narrated by Christian Rummel. I liked him in both this trilogy and that series. He does a good job with female voices, which is more important in this book than you might think, as most of the reptilian species' main characters are female. Of course "female" when applied to such a species and such a different mode of communication is more for the reader than anything related to any reality.

He also keeps consistency between characters and across the books, which I sincerely appreciate.

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Good in a unique way

Reviewed: 06-30-20

I enjoyed this book. The universe is completely whacked and comes at you with no explanation. People have convictions, there is some evil. Tim Curry's narration is consistent with good range. I guess my only issue with it is that it's perhaps not well recorded or some loss occurred before it became an audiobook.

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Great book

Reviewed: 04-04-20

It was really funny and made me laugh, yet it was inspiring and relatable at the same time. I really enjoyed it, and am looking forward to trying new things as a result of listening to it.

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Meh.

Reviewed: 07-08-19

Worst in the series that I've listened to. I have not listened to 3.5, btw. First off, some of the non-Bray narrators didn't make any effort to sound like the narration Bray did in the first 7 books. While I loved Kate Mulgrew in Voyager and Orange is the New Black, she didn't give Nagatha the sound RC did. I believe there's even a sentence in the book (4?) where she's introduced saying she sounded like Julia Child. Whoever did Smyth didn't sound the same either. Not the end of the world, though I've experienced this sort of thing with a few audio series and I think that the production companies should see if the narrator's liked, then have the new one listen to all previous books.

Story was a little light on plot advancement, which was also a complaint I had about book 7, as if the series is being milked for cash. Skippy seemed a bit too dumb with the whole Brock Steele thing.

That said, I've never laughed during closing credits and there are some fun scenes acted out with music.

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Really enjoyed it. Interesting.

Reviewed: 08-19-18

So I grew up in the US, in California, in a decent neighborhood. What he went through is much different than many readers, I'd imagine. He's a great storyteller, and combines humor, love, and social insight rather well!

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OK. The robots are awfully human

Reviewed: 08-19-18

I enjoyed this overall, though not immensely. The portions which were about the larger minds and the history of what went down after the singularity were great!

I found that the robots were essentially human protagonists, unfortunately, and there's lots that doesn't add up - certain bits of current circumstance don't make sense. Likely to skip a hypothetical book 2 unless it appears better than book 1.

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