Couldn’t stop listening

Great story, well presented, engaging and thought provoking. Totally recommend. More like this please!! I could not stop listening.

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Big budget feel

This is well edited and presented, with decent characterisation.

However, what Alethea gains with its impressive presentation and production values and cast, it lacks in it's storytelling prowess and originality, which seems to lean very heavily into big corporation conspiracy theory. I have heard it all before really.

Alethea is a short story but without the nimbleness of events and the satisfying twists of that format, with a conclusion that feels somewhat rushed and anti-climactic, relying too heavily on a backstory that did not lend much weight to the big reveal.

But with that said, this audible book was made freely available with my membership, so was worth the listen.

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masterpiece!

this is amazing!!! I want more asap!!! brilliant, smart, amazing and outstanding!!! the storyline, actors , sound effects...just perfect!!

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Short but sweet

I liked this story but I think it should or could have been like 40 chapters to develop the characters and make the mystery a bit better I kind of guessed it a while before the last two chapters.
I think you could have drilled in the environment a bit better like if you don’t work for Talos you had nothing like a class struggle.
However that being said I did enjoy it but it was a short storyline which could have had different issues interwoven to develop better.
For instance she just became a radical rebellious traitor to her friends because her conspiracy nut father was missing, was a bit far fetched and lazy I think something more than the fact of thinking her mam was alive could have happened.
Anyway I’m drifting away from the point. It was a nice listen and I am liken these stories.

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engaging story

the story line and plot is engaging and flow fairly easily. it is believable and actually fits in well with the narrative of what's going on in the world today.

Will be interesting to see where they take the story from here.

what I didn't like was that once again the alphabet community take a centre role in the story. you'd swear that the majority of the population were in this category. it seems that audible cannot produce a single thing for those who whould like to just listen to something not alphabet represented

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Really enjoyed it

Loved the voices, the music and the story. Would love a movie or videogame of this!

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Believable futuristic fiction

Great story with some twists and turns. Would be great to get some back story but in itself very entertaining. Great characters.

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Brilliant

Really immersive and captivating. Would love to know what happens next - it was a really great story

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Undemanding and unoriginal

Starting with the positives, the production values are top notch. It's very well produced, and the sound design is excellent. Shortly after it began, I was walking down the street and I stopped to look around me as I thought that a vehicle was approaching . There wasn't, it was part of this drama, and I felt stupid when I realised. At another point, I almost jumped out of my skin. A voice appears from the right side when you're not expecting it.

The actors for the most part are fine.

And that's it.

The story is generic "resistance fighters against the system". And it's very generic. There nothing original. It’s not a bad story by any means, but you’re never left surprised.

One big problem is that the main character isn’t very likeable. For someone supposedly so intelligent, she’s very dumb. Her actions or the things she say are annoying. Her girlfriend is the (generic) passive aggressive doormat type, willing to accept that this woman just disappears for days on end and is secretive, yet also suffocating. The English actress who voices her has been in a few other Audible productions and she has an annoying voice. So again, an unlikeable character. The other characters are the (generic) background characters you'd expect. The nerd. The over-involved leader-type. The old man who’s seen it all. There's nothing wrong with them. I suppose it's a form of shorthand. It immediately puts us in the story without having to explain too much. But while there's nothing wrong with them, there's nothing that makes them stand out.

I feel it only fair to give this spoiler:

This seems like it’s the first season.

If I had known that, I wouldn’t have started this. I don’t care enough to listen to a follow up.

The cast features some pretty C-list celebs. Chase Crawford, Helen Hunt, Beau Bridges and Rachel Dratch, to name but a few. Names we know, but not really a name you’d intentionally go to watch at the cinema. And the casting reflects this drama. I’d give it a C.

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Brilliant

I loved it I need more! This would make a brilliant tv series . Come on somebody make it

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