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Mass Effect™ Andromeda: Annihilation

By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
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With a new game, Mass Effect Andromeda, set for release in 2017, the launch of a new series of Mass Effect novels is timely. The new game will take the story in a dramatic new direction and is set in a new region of space, with a new and deadly enemy.

Titan is publishing four unmissable Mass Effect novels. The novels will act as prequel and sequels to the events in the games and will become part of the overarching Mass Effect saga. These new stories, developed in close collaboration with the Bioware game team, weave directly into the action of the new game - and will reveal events kept secret over the course of game play - and will add to the canonical Mass Effect saga.

©2017 Catherynne M. Valente (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Game Thought-Provoking

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To tell the truth, the narrator is great! The story has its plot and everything, but somehow I felt it weak...

Performance great, story - average

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after playing the game i awalys wonder why half the mass effect species were missing but this book done a good job on explaining why there missing

good book

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whatever the future holds we will take all our fears, prejudices and misguided notions with us. we can tell ourselves that we want to do better, that we are better; but the truth is we are all even the most alien of us only human.

it was a great listen

to an entertaining if fatalistic future

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This book is a must for all Mass Effect fans. A brilliantly written story and an excellently produced audio book, Tom Taylorson made it come to life like a new Andromeda DLC. It added new dimensions to the ME universe for me, fleshing out the history and personality of Milky Way races that aren’t explored in the games.

5* voice acting

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having read Nexus, and finding the narration fair and the story a little drawn out, I came into Annihilation with lower expectations, particularly towards the narration. This was a mistake; Tom Taylorson not only manages an amazing range of voices for each character, he does so with amazing attention to detail; cadence, both personal and racial, is particularly well done, and each character truly has their own identity, while being immediately identifiable as to their species, exactly like voice actors in the games.

The story is interesting; I enjoyed it, but some may find the exposition moments a little long winded; I actually enjoyed this, but others have stated that it was what they enjoyed least. While the perspectives of the non-council races are well developed and true to the games, one thing that bothered me was the amount of the exposition that was framed for humans, when none appear in the story. An example is an elcor explaining something medical to a quarians, a stellar, a volus and a batarian. The elcor keeps bringing up human examples of what he's talking about first, even though it's not a common reference point for any of the characters in the scene. Several characters do this, in a variety of situations, which I feel could have been better handled; this is obviously for the reader's benefit, and out of character.

Overall, I definitely don't regret listening to this; it FELT like mass effect, with memorable characters with distinct points of view. If you're a fan, I'd recommend it, if only for the very authentic cross species bickering and banter, as performed by the amazingly talented Taylorson.

Unexpectedly brilliant

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