
Destroyer
Hidden Planet, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Sleep
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By:
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Anna Carven
A hair-raising ambush. A malfunctioning ship. A distant, uncharted part of the Universe.
Calexa Acura and her crew of misfits are lost, and their ship is in desperate need of repairs. When a massive spacecraft appears in their radius, they're helpless to resist its magnetic pull.
The terrifying ship is bigger than any craft she's seen in her life, and somehow, she doubts its occupants will turn out to be the friendly sort.
First Encounters are always better when they're amicable, but if necessary, Calexa and her crew will fight.
It's what they've always done.
Contains mature themes.
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With her other series I was excited for the next book. With this, I find myself wishing this was a one-off. I read books y other authors like this and it doesn’t bother me.. I think I just had higher hopes based on her other books.
Is this even the same author?
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Hard to get interested in
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Good read
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Um, what? Just like Calexa’s thoughts, this book was all over the map for me, and sometimes I found myself loving and hating things at the same time. Frankly, having just finished this, I’m still not sure what to make of it. Perhaps that’s because I went into this expecting campy, smutty alien romance.
And, this was 10% that … but also 90% other things.
“Ba bum … ba bum … ba bum …”
A big hurdle for me was the narration which felt very monotone, with odd pops of emotion and the ladies sounding the same. I even thought it was virtual voiced for a bit. Considering the switches between Calexa’s and Ares’s POVs, the story begged for dual or duet narration. I will say that Mr. Sleep’s voicing for the males was growly and excellent. To be fair, the writing may also have contributed to the narration struggles, especially where sound effects were written, like the beating hearts. Hmm, perhaps graphic audio narration would have best sold this.
“One by one the bricks in her hard fortress of memories were being stolen
by a creature who was made of metal and flesh and dreams.”
This was more sci-fi and fantasy than romance, and felt vaguely like Event Horizon meets Star Gate meets John Carter Goes to Mars. I know! What?! Ares’s people are primitive and shun science, yet this is mostly set on board a Goliath spaceship. There’s zombie-alien hordes, an unhinged A.I. (add Borg vibes), a magic-like assimilation that allows for melting walls and ship wide control (yep, definitely Borg vibes), and multiple factions who were once slaves and are now charting their own, very different paths:
Ares’s people shun tech, the Naga have co-opted tech left behind by advanced beings, and Calexa’s crew have augmented themselves to ensure they can never be enslaved again. Yeah. A lot of to digest. It hits you non-stop and scattershot.
Calexa: “Stars!”
Ares: “F!”
What’s up with the human using creative cussing,
but the purple skinned, three toed, barb-tailed aliens using F bombs?
Calexa: “You got this?”
Mai: “Grumpy a holes, language barriers, outnumbered … yep, I got this.”
But, by the end, it turns out it is the campy alien romance I was expecting. It’s clear there will be future pairings between Calexa’s and Ares’s people, amid fun, danger, and alien-human shenanigans. And the romance between Calexa and Ares was strangely, uniquely compelling, with the enemies to lovers trope
I enjoy. There are only two sex scenes, you need to get through 8 hrs to get to the first one, and it was 90% deep feelings of the universe metaphorically exploding and 10% “take it” awkwardly smutty exclamations (the narration did NOT help with the cries of ecstasy). I was one starring this as far as
half way into this book … and yet was still intrigued enough to continue. I’m not sure if I liked this or not,
but I upped my rating a star on the originality alone; this was indeed something.
Well, that was … something
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I liked it
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Good story but a rough start
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so great
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Missed
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I actually put this one down for some time and started listening to it because I didn’t have another book picked out. I actually would never have gotten it due to the three way arrangement near the end - I am soooo not into that - and don’t really want to listen to it any more with 50 min left. Adding in another sexual partner is just icky. Description should have a warning on it.
Overall this was not up to the standards of the Kardolian books and it has been a project to get through it this far. Not sure if I will try to finish with some fast forwarding or not.
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