The Rapscallion Agency
The Rapscallion Agency, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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a full cast
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By:
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Christof Laputka
About this listen
Set shortly after the events of the award-winning The Leviathan Chronicles, this spinoff series continues the adventures of its two youngest characters, Lisette Mainsabiles and Paul Kim (aka Cluracan) as they use their unique skills to start a business, navigate young love, and lovingly care for a cybernetic rat.
Having been raised by an immortal thief, Lisette’s experience as a cat burglar makes her confident she can handle any physical threat the pair might face. But as a computational savant and former underground hacker, Cluracan knows that analytical thinking can be better than acting impulsively. Sharing a misfit love for each other, they leave behind their lives in the U.S. to start a fledgling cybersecurity agency in Paris, France.
After converting a bakery van into their mobile hi-tech headquarters, Lisette and Cluaracan explore Paris by calling upon old acquaintances to help them find work for their new agency, But during a professional ‘audition’, Lisette and Cluracan are double-crossed, but manage to escape with a priceless research asset that makes them a target of a powerful international conglomerate, VeyTech Pharmaceutical.
As they try to decode the mystery in their possession, they have to stay alive as they are ruthlessly hunted by an assassin with a metal arm while figuring out who they can really trust to help them escape France.
Will Lisette and Cluracan end up as unfortunate pawns in a dangerous conspiracy, or will they be able to turn the tables on their foes and win back their freedom?
©2023 Christof Laputka (P)2025 Leviathan Audio ProductionsUnfortunately the good story is lost in low quality, lame writing & poor execution/production.
Entertaining: Yes (but debatable if it was worth the price)
* Writing = lame, choppy, unrefined
* Storytelling = first half of story hard to follow, scene breaks & time jumps disrupt narrative flow, emotionally shallow & stereotypical characters
* Characters = 2 dimensional, shallow character development, extreme stereotyping especially in relationships & emotions
(Note: writer did capture the essence of sidekick you need but "should have dropped you in college" who is a jerk face, self absorbed video gamer that talks trash everyone, oblivious to others feelings, and ignores everyone else's life as a NPC.)
* Voice Acting = poor, accents were a nice story telling touch but were often too thick and hard to listen to
(Note: at ending some actors did capture emotional intensity in final action scene)
* Sound Mixing = overall bad, some character voices too loud and other strained to
(Note: listened on smart phone speakers; did not listen with headphones)
* Sound Editing = horrible!!!
(Track/chapter 4 sounds like a cat ran over the editing board! Editing snippets mixed out of order, other tracks/voices overlayed making following story impossible! Literally gave me a headache & had to give up!)
* Dialogue Writing = weak!!!
I do not know if writer is ESL but the dialogue was weak, awful and lame!
Many times the characters would repeat the same thing multiple times, making the conversation and the dialogue go no where.
Example: How many times can a "friend" interrupt you after 1 sentence? How many times can someone say "tell me more about you" in a couple minute conversation?
* Dialogue Writing = awful!!!
Often dialogue was choppy and emotionally shallow. Some conversations sounded forced or like 2 people have 2 separate conversations. (Maybe writer did not read dialogue script outloud to hear the flow? Or maybe voice actors recorded separately???)
Example: relationship fight between main characters, sounded like 2 self focused, tunnel-visioned teens verbally fighting, repeating themselves while literally cannot hear the other person. Then suddenly out of nowhere switch on the romantic passion??? I feel like I am listening to a teen soap!
* Dialogue Writing = lame!!
Other times the character would state already narrated known story facts for no reason -- I say "no reason" because everyone, characters & audience already knew it!
Example: Narrator: bad ceo recalling evil henchmen for update on clandestine assignment from private office on separate cabled, scrabbling tele-communication.
Characters: "Are you sure this line is secure?" "Hard line on encrypted monitor" "conversation held in complete privacy" "if this conversation were known it would be catastrophic for both of us"
Literally already knew all of this! THE NARRATOR TOLD US RIGHT BEFORE!!!
(Also if you are a ceo bad guy calling your hired henchmen from a non-secured line... you deserve to be caught.)
DISAPPOINTING QUALITY NOT WORTH YOUR TIME OR MONEY
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