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A Jake Corby Sci-Fi Thriller

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By: Al Macy
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 On May 22, 2018, every person on Earth sneezes. Simultaneously.

Hours later, an alien spacecraft appears over New York City and broadcasts a dire message of impending doom. The future of the human race will depend on the whims of a solitary extraterrestrial who appears in the form of Walter Cronkite. Yes, that's right, Walter Cronkite, the deceased news anchor!

Ex-FBI troubleshooter Jake Corby has faked his death and dropped out of sight, living like a hermit in a small town. But the president is convinced Corby's still alive. He wants Jake, with his unique problem-solving skills, added to the team that will try to defeat the strange but powerful alien. Jake needs to overcome his introvert tendencies if he's going to help save the planet.

The alien has some nasty surprises for the residents of Earth, and the race is on to figure out his true motives and the meaning of the sneeze event--before it's too late. Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction
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Liked the characters … they were interesting and made listening to the story compelling. Overall I liked the story but disliked the AI narrator.

The “Virtual Voice” narration was tedious.

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Despots and cultists but the AI is not ready for prime time. The quality of the voice was excellent, but the pauses , inflections and the pronunciations were way off often enough to be annoying and distracting.

An interesting concept and warning about

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Ai may be fine for 10 or 15 minutes but I was getting drawn into what seemed like a good story and just can listen to the narration anymore.

Can’t finish narration is grating

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I really tried, but I had to give up before finishing. The Virtual Voice narration was just too annoying. Sad, as I think I would have liked the story otherwise.

Couldn’t finish due to narration.

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ai reading the book. at first I thought it was Kool but the performance got dry and listless real fast. I'm sure it will get better with time.

first aid performance

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Ai is terrible at narration- emotionless. The tone is flat at best and inappropriate at worst.

Narration is so bad I couldn’t finish the book.

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not a thriller by any means but pretty pithy and enjoyable, definitely stands out from the crowded "hostile first contact" genre.

upgrading from four stars to five to offset the tiresome and predictable review bombing over to the AI narration, which is actually surprisingly competent. beginning to suspect the flood of cookie cutter negative reviews that immediately hit every book that has AI narration is AI generated itself. what's good for the goose is good for Skynet I suppose.

a pretty clever story, stands out from the genre

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