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Birth of a SuperVillain

By: Scott Spangler
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It's been a decade since the first ultra-enhanced human beings were forced to abandon covert military operations. Advancing public technology and new government legislation made continuing to operate in secrecy untenable, and so they mainstreamed, becoming the world's first superhero group - the Order of Champions. They are the ten mightiest individuals on the planet - beloved by the masses and feared by their enemies. And their world is falling apart.

The superheroes have become complacent - secure in their own sense of invincibility. They are arrogant and alone and increasingly rocked by scandal. They have grown wealthy in their new role and stagnant from being restrained on a leash against what they were created to do. They are gods among men, but must suffer being kept like pets. That is, until their most powerful member is unexpectedly murdered by an unknown assassin. The shocked heroes suddenly find themselves aligned against a new adversary - a supervillain. And the massive secret hiding behind this new threat will forever alter the world. Action & Adventure Fantasy Superhero
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Excellent concept, audiobook was hampered by virtual voice. Get a real narrator and you would be getting 5 star reviews.

Great story, get a real narrator

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the stories not bad and just as I really get into it there is an inhuman pause as the virtual voice gets confused with punctuation infliction and certain words

virtual voice killed this book

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I hate to write that because the story was decent but the reading was painful.
This was my second experience with Virtual Voice and the first time something seemed out of place but I figured that I could get past it. This time I got to the second chapter and realized what was wrong and by the fifth, I had to stop. I just could not finish.
The unnatural pauses and tempo, the absolute monotone delivery and NO changes in inflection or pitch. I don't need voices but this was so bad I couldn't tell the difference between who was speaking, what action was going on or when or where action was happening.
It's kind of sad because I was interested in the story but I just couldn't do it anymore. I have deleted any books that are using this thing as a narrator. I hope that they trash it.

UN-LISTEN-ABLE Virtual Voice is a distaster

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