
Middlegame
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Narrated by:
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Amber Benson
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By:
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Seanan McGuire
A Locus Award Finalist!
This program is read by Amber Benson.
New York Times best-selling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces listeners to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the stand-alone fantasy, Middlegame.
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: To raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
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Critic reviews
2019 NPR Best Book of the Year
2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
2020 Hugo Award Nominee
2020 Locus Awards Nominee
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fantastic story
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Simply fantastic
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LOVE
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amazing
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The writing is sharp, the narrative flow is good, and the story seems promising. However, I have to agree with other reviews about the poor voice narration. The voicing of the villains is so overdone and cartoonish that it distracts and frustrates. Makes you wonder who greenlights these productions. I will make an effort to finish the book, but I'm not 100% certain I'll be able to. I may end up buying the print version.
Review in progress
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Middlegame is magic
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Incredible book!
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I seriously love the ideas that were at play here, and I love the complicated way that McGuire chose to express those ideas. It does make it hard to approach, hard to sink into, but the end result is something that stands out as completely unique. The only book I can think of that has some grain of similarity in terms of actual storyline and scope is The Library at Mount Char.
I'm definitely curious to see where this story leads us, and what more McGuire has to share about this version of our world she has given us.
Notes on the audiobook: Overall I wasn't entirely fond of Benson's choices in terms of individual voices, especially when it came to Reed and Leigh. Even at the speeds I normally listen to 2.5x or 3x, those two voices were still incredibly odd on the ears. Other that than I found the narration decent, with good pacing.
Such an Imaginative Ride
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Well Played for 17 Hours
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Intriguing Story. DNF Due to Narrator
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