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Unexpected Destiny
- Narrated by: Ryan Kennard Burke
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
When it comes to saving the universe from an apocalyptic force, Kyren would’ve picked anyone to be the hero....
Anyone, but himself.
With half the galaxy in ruin and whole star systems filled with the husks of starfleets that failed to stop the deathbots, one self-taught robot boxer will attempt what no one thought possible.
He’ll save the galaxy.
But he won’t do it alone.
Aided by a cat-girl engineer, a crazy alien scientist, and a child oracle, they will search the galaxy for the key to victory against the unstoppable juggernaut of the deathbots.
With a maniacal cyborg dogging their trail, and space pirates around every moon, will Kyren find a way to defeat his foe?
Or will the galaxy burn as all life in the universe is snuffed out...one planet at a time.
Buy this book now and enjoy the exciting space opera that fans of The Fifth Element and Stargate will love!
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- L. Miles
- 20-08-19
Enjoyable
I like the general story of the book. I only have one criticism. The book reads well but for some reason every now and then the author puts in a 'fancy' word that sounds out of place with the rest of the book.
The narration is done very well.
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- sarah bancroft
- 21-10-19
enjoyed this space fantasy audiobook
I really enjoyed this audiobook at first I struggled to get into it l, but I had promised to review it so I restarted the book and gave it my full attention and while probably not something I'd have picked for myself I'm excited to listen to the next installment of the story and find out what happens next
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- David Munch
- 08-10-20
Extremely unimaginative scifi space opera
Unexpected Destiny is a science fiction space opera, written by Trevor Ames Gregg. We follow Kyren, a human that is tired of living the life he’s currently stuck in with his brother Athar, doing robot fighting matches. Of course, things go really wrong when Kyren makes a stupid decision and his brother is killed, so he flees the planet he is currently on, but ends up being caught and sold as a slave. After that, his life takes a 180° turn, and he is suddenly destined to save the universe with a collection of misfits.
The book is generally well written, with plenty of well paced action. Scenes and dialogs generally flow well, and the prose is good enough to keep your attention. Unfortunately, the writing isn’t enough to scoop this story up to an acceptable level, as I found several issues that really ruined it for me.
The biggest flaw was that I found the overall writing extremely unimaginative. At first I noticed a severe lack of descriptive writing for scenes. The author tries to portray the story as a thriving futuristic science fiction world, with crazy technology and varied aliens, but it ultimately falls completely flat. There’s almost no descriptions to set the scenes, apart from a few random descriptions of things, and nothing that really pulls the scene down over the reader to make one feel that one is there. Sure, one can use ones imagination, but the author gave practically nothing to go on. Aliens were portrayed to be very different, which is good, but the author usually just gave a short description of one specific feature/appendix/behavior/sound of each species, and then made an analogy to an Earth being. Over the course of the story, I noticed aliens being described as looking like an: Insect, dog, mermaid, pixie, frog, fern, centaur, hippopotamus, saurian, caterpillar, fly, cat, lizard. One was even being described as having “cartoonish features”. Given that our main character is unlikely to have ever been to Earth, and its contemporary culture being a thing of the past (And perhaps in a galaxy far far away), this kind of writing just comes of as lazy and unimaginative. Coupled with contemporary Earth slang over and over again, the entire world building just falls completely apart. The main character even wears denim trousers.
Characters were almost completely one-dimensional, with only the main character, Kyren, having a pinch of background - One that was unfortunately ignored following the first couple of chapters. It was a pity, because it was actually the most interesting part of the book to me, learning about growing up in the slums, with hardships around every corner. All other characters were there to be a role, and not to be developed in any way. Heck, we even have the exotic cat-like alien with the very imaginative name…. Alice. Oh, and the author made sure to tell us that her particular species were anatomically compatible with humans - I wonder what that leads to… The main character falls in love with her the moment he meets her (The first woman in the story even), and for some reason she also loves him back, because… I don’t know? They just did. We didn’t see any cross-character interactions that could result in the development of feelings. Maybe it was just a matter of their compatible genitals.
The villain was also completely one-dimensional, and he wanted to destroy the entire galaxy, because someone killed his wife. Sure, be mad, but destroy the galaxy? Wut?
Storywise it was okay, albeit somewhat over the top, and very plothole filled. Backwater planet looser is supposed to save the universe, because of a destiny. Uhm.. Yeah. And then we have the generic space pirates, time manipulation (Plot holes!), and a sacred relic that will save the world because it is sacred. The villain he had a super AI, which can predict everything, based on absolutely no data. It could predict everything happening in detail, including time manipulation, but it couldn’t predict the outcome of a 1 on 1 fist fight? It was ridiculous, and so far out! His incentive to be an antagonist for our main character was simply that the AI said he had to do so. The above mentioned cat-alien was a variable it count account for, which, given the scope of everything else should be absolutely nothing in comparison.
And then there were inserted several interludes that broke up the main story. It was a bit strange, because it seems they were only there to give a bit of incentive to background characters, and explain their positions in the story later on. The interludes were numerated, which I found strange.
And the story ends in a giant cliffhanger, in case you don’t like those.
It was a somewhat short story, especially considering the sequels are 33% and 100% longer in comparison. It would have been markedly improved if the author had expanded the story, and fleshed out scenes and characters.
I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Ryan Kennard Burke, who did an amazing job of it. Clear narration, good pacing, with an absolutely excellent set of different voices for individual characters. Really enjoyed his narration!
Overall, if you enjoy science fiction space opera with plenty of action, with a very generic and out-there story written in an extremely unimaginative way, with shallow characters, then this is for you. Unfortunately, I think there are much better picks out there.
I received this audiobook for free in return for a review. I have no affiliation with the author, the narrator, the publisher, or their pets (Although I am sure the latter are quite nice!).
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