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- Taurian Empire
- Narrated by: Daniel F Purcell
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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- Ostfeld
- 08-06-22
Enjoyable first encounter.
I truly love how the author Nate Johnson writing is simple to understand unlike others who make you crazy braking your brain to understand what’s going on and he does it beautifully.
The thing is that on Goodreads this is book number two of the trilogy which makes no sense because this one is a First Contract book but on the first book of the trilogy ‘ Drake’s Rift ‘ which is excellent and also written beautifully but is all about a war against the aliens which we supposably first come in contact on book two ‘ Discovery ‘ , maybe the third of the trilogy will make sense of it all ?
About the book it was fun easy and very simple to understand, the author sure knows how to pull you in and keep you there all the way to the ending !
Excellent Narration by Dan Purcell wraps the whole thing into a perfect audio package !
Recommended
Without a doubt,
For all !!!
Oded Ostfeld.
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- Jim The Thing
- 10-03-22
Not bad
This was from the ‘Included’ catalogue. Not a bad tale, although not outstanding it was entertaining enough. My main gripe was the narration for the audio version. The reader seemed to keep getting stuck on some words, which distracted me from being fully immersed in the story.
On balance it’s worth 3 stars because it didn’t cost me a credit.
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- William W.
- 05-12-20
its ok
the reader was rather monotone and every thing seemed dry but the story is decent
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- Kristjan Larson
- 14-07-20
First Contact Survivor Short Story
Another stand-alone story in the Taurian 'verse ...
The world building is pretty stock; so don't expect anything special here. The characters are pretty two dimensional as well; they have an almost 60's charicature feel to them. Start with the simple, honest man (a navy petty office) who is loyal to a fault and meets a girl way out of his league. Throw them into a situation where the boy can show howmuch of a unsung hero he is and the predictable girl meets boy drama can commence. In this case, ship wreck them on a planet with a primative alien civilization where they must survive until the Empire can come rescue them. Make sure you emphasize that the expected forbidden romance could never happen ... then do it any way. That is not really a bad thing (unless you are looking for something other than pure entertainment); sometimes I want a story where the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad and the boy gets the girl in the end.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
#feeaudiobookcodes #audiobookboom
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- Arthur M. Thomas IV
- 21-12-18
Boilerplate story with bad writing
Listening to this book was like listening to a Valarian Howler monkey.
The most annoying and noticeable problem with this book is the extremely poor use of simile and metaphor. This was abused in lieu of good descriptive writing. Taking an earth animal and just sticking "valarian" in front of it to use as a simile as a replacement for writing actual context and emotion is not good writing. This method is used over and over in the book so much that is really sticks out. I have never listened to nor read a book that abused this so much.
The story also is extremely boilerplate. More advanced humans get stuck with less advanced and some bad guys some then the advanced humans come to rescue the team and oh by the way there is a love story thing. While actions happens there is no suspense to it and you can probably guess what will happen next.
Also they characters seems to comment on not making assumptions and parallels between human understand and alien understanding just because they appear to be lizard like. Then they do nothing but make assumptions. It really came through that the author has a poor understanding of evolution. Basically all the aliens acted like human. The bad guy we don't learn much about at all but are even stereotypical in looking 'rat like' and have a name like 'scrags'. Why would a species with interstellar travel need to travel to force slaves to harvest drugs? It really makes little believable since and absolute no effort it put into even the pretense of building a believable world.
There there is the generic love story mixed in. Clearly written by a man writing how he thinks a woman thinks. All surrounding this silly idea of a man who is apparently a skill chameleon that can simply do anything. A hardworking but lowly engineer or a starship in the military for some vague "empire". Then he becomes some ultimate warrior that apparently already know the strength capabilities of aliens as he gets into a fight that makes little sense. Then at the end he becomes a lawyer and diplomat. The characters are really just superficial and the hero is just given whatever traits he needs to keep being the hero at the time. Struggle seems superficial.
And the narrator tries to do a good job. His voice was just to distracting. I encourage you to listen to a sample first to make sure you will be ok with him before purchase. (If you decide to purchase this bland story).
I will be avoiding this author.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-03-18
Discovery
Discovery by Nate Johnson. This is the way it should be life, all life is sovereign
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- Dan P.
- 04-09-17
Entertaining story!
I typically don't like these kinds of books but I found myself looking for time to listen.
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