Interstellar MegaChef

Flavour Hackers, Book 1

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Interstellar MegaChef

By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

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Looking for your one shot to rise to the "top of the pots" in the cutthroat world of interstellar cuisine? Look no further—you might have what it takes to be an Interstellar MegaChef!

Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili . . . and an invitation to compete in the galaxy's most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus's austere, carefully synthesized cuisine. Until now, no-one from Earth has ever graced its flowmetal cookstations before, or smiled awkwardly for its buzzing drone-cams.

Corporate prodigy Serenity Ko, inventor of the smash-hit sim SoundSpace, has just got messily drunk at a floating bar, narrowly escaped an angry mob and been put on two weeks' mandatory leave to rest and get her work-life balance back. Perfect time to start a new project! And she's got just the idea: a sim for food. Now she just needs someone to teach her how to cook.

A chance meeting in the back of a flying cab has Saras and Serenity Ko working together on a new technology that could change the future of food—and both their lives—forever . . .

Lavanya LakshminarayanSoneela NankaniTantor AudioFlavour Hacker

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I really, really wanted to love this book. The premise sounds amazing, but both the execution and the narration just sadly falls flat.
The two chapters I did listen to didn't make much sense - I didn't feel engaged with the characters, the story, and there wasn't any sense of urgency or hook to it, and the old adage "show don't tell" needs to be revisited. This felt like a first draft of a book, rather than a published, finished audible book, and for that, I am sorry.

The narration sounded odd and robotic, as if it was AI - the inflections were all wrong and disjointed. I ended up putting my narration on 1.5x speed to try to make it better. Sadly, it didn't.

Gave up after chapter 2

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