Alex Mercier

Death Guard flavored "bolter p*rn"

Reviewed: 11-17-22

Going in, I was expecting a sort of deeper character driven story for Morty, similar to Konrad Kurze's Night Haunter book. But alas, this book is about 4 hours of space marines doing battle with humans. A few stand out moments, but nothing spectacular. If you like the DG, like I do, go for it. Keeble was a great narrator as always.

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Interesting and entertaining.

Reviewed: 09-27-22

From her life changing medical situation to deep sea submarine exploration, this is a memoir of the incredible adventures and life of marine biologist Edith Widder. There is not a dull moment to be had!

Narrator was also solid enough to keep me engaged.

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Some good, some bad, some middle road.

Reviewed: 08-01-22

If you're more of a fan of the pure and simple action aspect of ALIENS, then I suppose I can suggest picking this one up. There are. a few stories that night scratch that itch for Bug vs. marines action. But fans of the horror aspect of ALIEN. like myself, will surely find this lacking.

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Top tier ALIEN content

Reviewed: 07-05-22

A story of corporate greed and spiraling insanity, using ALIEN as the catalyst.

The book's protagonist, Blue, is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting main characters from this long line of ALIEN(S) novels. Her predicament of being severely medically impaired adds am interesting level of urgency to her motives and definitely made me want to root for her to be victorious the entire time.

On the opposite end, the antagonist, Dorian, is someone you love to hate. Everything about him is awful, and it is an ever increasing want to see him finally get the comeuppance he deserves.

Fantastic narration as well. Simple, but effective.

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ALIEN was always "woke".

Reviewed: 06-17-22

Ignore the people complaining that this Alien entry is too "woke", they clearly missed 1) the point and messages of the original two films, and 2) lack any sort of literary critical thinking to properly critique media in any way aside from spewing generic derogatory buzzwords.

As for my thoughts; I'd actually only give it like a 3 or 4, but I wanted this to be seen easier haha! Either way, I think telling stories about the people and colonies within the Alien universe is far more interesting than a 10 hour gun fight would ever be. Alien is allowed to tell more than one story, and I'm enjoying what we have been getting.

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The story of stories, just as great as the first

Reviewed: 11-10-21

Long story short, if you liked the first one, you will most definitely enjoy the second act as well. Suburb writing, voice acting, sound design, and so on.

Also, don't listen to the folks claiming this to be filled with "woke virtue signaling", they're just bigots who get offended over the mere mention of a trans person/ character. News flash, The Sandman comics were always "woke" and filled with representation and diversity. Easily the most casually queer stories I've come across.

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A fun and eerie experience

Reviewed: 10-29-21

I have read the original Call of Cthulhu, however H.P. Lovecraft's style of writing is simply too difficult for me to follow and enjoy most of his stories. These kinds of audio dramas are wonderful adaptations, and a lot easier to digest. This one was my first, and it's quality makes me excited to try out more down the line. Definitely reccomend for Lovecraft fans new and old, or horror fans in general.

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Superb.

Reviewed: 10-13-21

Excellent voice acting, character writing, story and plots, sound design and music effects, and overall production quality. One of if not the best audio drama I've ever experienced. I sometimes forgot this is supposed to belong to the same universe as DC comics legends Batman and Superman.

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A decent prequel, also better than Alliances

Reviewed: 07-30-21

As a stand alone story for Thrawn and his actions before joining the Empire and becoming Grand Admirial, this book was pretty good. Not amazing, nothing jaw dropping, and unfortunately not a whole lot we haven't seen Thrawn do already before. I personally wish this first book was more about Thrawn growing up, perfecting his love of art and tactics, his time at the Chiss naval academy, and all around more about Chiss culture in general. We get to see some of that Chiss culture scattered about, but it doesn't feel fully flushed out just yet. I would have liked to see more flashback/ memories moments going back to Thrawn's early years, as I genuinely want to know how he was as a child.

As for the plot itself, it has it's ups and downs. Unfortunately the antagonist was simply not interesting. Put him in any other Star Wars setting and nothing changes. At first he seemed like a competent threat to match Thrawn's own prowess, but then any build up or backstory for him ceased and he became a generic angry guy who couldn't make a decision.

Thrawn on the other hand was great as always. But I feel like that was more a detriment than anything. Since there is not a lot of depth into his growing up or time in the academy, he is kind of just already good at anything he does/ already knows tactics. I wanted to know specifically how he got so good at it in the first place and it was just never delivered, unfortunately.

I'll definitely be going on to the next two books at some point, hopefully they will be good.

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A truly unique experience

Reviewed: 07-14-21

Like some other reviews have mentioned, it might just be the best option to go into this book completely blind. The sudden realization of finding out what exactly I was listening to and whether or not it is true or not was thrilling. This is my third MC book, after Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and it did not disappoint.

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