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Caretaker

Caretaker Series #1

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Caretaker

By: Josi Russell
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
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About this listen

Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up 50 years later with his family on the planet Minea. Instead, after the ship's caretaker - the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship's vital systems - suddenly died, the ship's computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything ran smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about. Ethan is resigned to his fate until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret - a navigation room hidden from even the ship's computer. The ship is not bound for Minea but somewhere far more dangerous. With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns that he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly advanced, hostile alien race.

©2015 Josi Russell (P)2016 Tantor First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

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I didn't like the the fact the mystery was short lived, two hours and a half in and you already know all there is and can easily anticipate the ending, would have liked it to drag on the isolation loneliness for characters development.
I like the first two hours.

Short in the wrong places

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book for 3 year olds.. sad I bothered. .. ... ... .... ...... ...... .. ... .... ...

what a waste of my time

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it took 5 hours to get past anything not mentioned in the book summary. after that it followed a highly predictable path

slow and predictable

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