An Intriguing Saga

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Legacy is not an action-packed, non-stop-movement kind of book. It has some action, but much of this opening book of the Biodome Chronicles is about the emotional state of the characters and their relationships with each other. Well-written and including marvelous descriptions and beautiful imagery, this book was quite enjoyable, although I could have stood less tension between Leaf and Willow (she may only be fifteen, but her temper seemed rather unreasonable sometimes).

Sunil Patel, the narrator, has a wonderful voice, and it was very pleasant to listen to him. However, I had trouble distinguishing between the voices and therefore was not always certain which character was speaking. I also sometimes felt as if the epigraphs from the Atoms to Adams Daily Show represented his voice-acting better than when he was performing the characters in the actual story and wish the energy from some of those was more prevalent in the audiobook as a whole.

While it started clean, once Fillion and his world gained greater focus, the book developed some language - thankfully, I had moved to listening with the earphones by that point instead of setting my phone nearby and using its speakers, so the little ones weren’t exposed!

All in all, I liked this book a lot (I’ve already purchased and am almost finished with book 2, Elements). I knocked off half a star for the language and half a star for the mild performance issues, leaving it with a solid four stars.

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Jesikah Sundin. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

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Spoiled by jarring narration.

It was a nice story which I could probably have enjoyed if it weren't so hard to listen to in this presentation.

I felt the flow was repeatedly disrupted and wooden, both of which jolted me in and out of the story like a series of bumps in the road. Eventually, sufficiently bruised, I gave up. Each to their own, I guess.

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Great story, poor narration

Whilst Jesikah was flawless in her storytelling, I feel as though it was wasted on the narrator. Each sentence felt like a climax to a great nothing. Sunil's tone was all wrong for what he was reading, making it hard to follow along and grasp the gravity of any given situation. It was as though he'd never recited any stories or events in his life - because of this I couldn't listen past chapter 2, instead I'll be reading the book on my Kindle when I have time.

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