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Aurora Rising

The Aurora Cycle, Book 1

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Aurora Rising

By: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer, Steve West
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From the New York Times and internationally best-selling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic....

It's 2380, and the graduating students of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Tyler Jones has been a star pupil who hopes to recruit the squad of his dreams but ends up with a mixed and volatile crew.

And Ty's squad isn't even his biggest problem - that'd be Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, the girl he's just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler's squad of losers, discipline cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

Vividly told in the seven voices of the team members, this is fast-paced, action-packed, wickedly humorous and fabulously entertaining.

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This story was brilliant, the best book about a young group of misfits since Six of Crows and a total breath of fresh air that it was set in space. The whole storyline, straight from the beginning with Tyler saving Aurora from a cyropod in deep space known here as 'The Fold' was just so well done. It keeps you gripped to the very end. My favourite characters were probably Cat, Scarlett, Tyler and Finian. I think the weakest characters are probably Aurora and Kal, but this is because they are the typical characters needed in a story like this, the chosen one and the broody love interest. I just thought everyone else had much better developed personalities, or maybe I just liked them more. At the end of this book we lose a major character and I felt genuinely sad for it, I'm still hoping that maybe they could come somehow return in another book? I hate mating story lines so I really didn't connect with Kal and Aurora but that's probably the only negative I can say. In terms of the performances by the voice actors, I thought they all did an amazing job at voicing their own characters. However, I did almost choke from laughter when the American actors had to imitate Kat and Kals Australiab and English accents. These are Paid actors and for some reason think a victorian cockney accent can pass for modern aussie? I honestly cannot believe it got past editing without someone saying, hang on this is a bit shit. What annoyed me was that occasionally in long dialogue moments, all the voices would come into a chapter and voice their characters, which worked amazingly. But this only happened I think once or twice and then it would go back to the actor voicing the character whose chapter it was, imitating the other characters. I would have preferred it much more if the actors did ALL the dialogue for their characters. So this is the reason I rated the performance 3/5. This being said, of you can get over the terrible accent imitations this is a brilliant audio book. I will definitely be downloading the sequel.

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Okay… so I’ve seen this book advertised and for some reason always passed it by! I am a fall or should I say was a fool! This is a spectacular piece of writing! I love the way all the characters had a different person portraying them it made the whole story come alive. Love the world building fell in love with a character development I finish this not five minutes ago and already can’t wait to get into the next book! This is a must, don’t do and me and pass it by. Five stars all round!

What a book!

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Beautiful imagery. Intense Action. Intriguing Mystery. Characters feel so alive.
You will love this so much, don't think about it, just get it!

An Absolute Must-Listen

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It met my needs definitely pick this 1 up you won’t regret, at first I found it difficult cos it felt long winded then it got good !

I’m a sci-fi geek

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This was a really enjoyable listen with a great cast of narrators. I don’t usually like too many sound effects in audiobooks but it works really well in this storyline, I especially liked the radio communications between the characters which was a pleasant surprise. This is YA so don’t expect anything too heavy going, it’s more a light fun listen/read. Now onto book 2!

Great entertaining listen

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