Bad impression of male voices!

This is a great listen and the narration is very good, except when the female narrator attempts to ‘do’ a male voice! It is bad to the point of being distracting from the story.

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A toxic workplace!

Well narrated, this story is a novel twist on the parallel worlds concept, but my goodness it's a tough listen having worked in a toxic workplace with a narcissistic boss like the one in the story. It's relentless! Needs a lot more light and shade, instead the author beats you over the head as the tension piles up to an unbearable level. Got to bale out on this one.

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great

I really enjoyed it kept me entertained. Short and exciting can't wait for part 2. I thought the narrator was good personally and did it justice, however a few reviews mentioned her sounding like nickelodeon characters and now I can't unhear it lol.

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Excellent Sci-Fi

This is great modern sci-fi disaster and the author is very good at it, will get part 2 now.

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Good fun

A bit of British Pagan folk music fun… I enjoyed it. Probably not worth a credit but for free it’s a winner

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A run of the mill Sci-fi with poor narration.

I've listened to the entire trilogy now. If you like your run of the mill sci-fi stereotypes, cliches and story, then this is for you. Except, the narration is quite poor.

A not too particularly well written story, but bearable made worse by the narrator. I've listened to so many audiobooks lately that are completely ruined by poor narration. Ironic really, as the narration will make or break an audiobook, more so than the story!

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Brilliant!

A classic science-gone-wrong story that builds and builds towards certain catastrophe. The characters are fleshed out nicely and the science is explained very well. Exactly what I expect from the never disappointing Maberry. Ends on a real cliffhanger, so you have no choice but to get part two. My only complaint is that the narrator at times sounds like Bart Simpson...

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Enthralling! Brown Stuff hits the spinney thing!

Wonderful pacing dragging you straight into world's of infinite possibilities.
Really good! Now part two!

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B movie plot, painful narration

Most of it feels like filler, as it only seems to pick up in the last chapter or two. The worst of it is the narrator giving long, slow, drawn out narration. I ended up playing it at 1.5x which makes it close to bearable.

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Could have been great

This could have been a great book. The story idea might not be new exactly, but it presents an interesting twist and the writer is talented. However, the level of stereotyping and the cartoonishness of the characters is extraordinary. This has the psychological sophistication of a 70s James Bond or Indiana Jones movie. The bad guys/girls are one-dimensional, narcissistic, blond, blue-eyed villains (think "James Bond villain meets bunch of Indiana Jones antagonists from World War II") and the good guys/girls are extraordinary, loving, selfless, culturally diverse heroes whose only problem is that they are quite literally too good to be true. And so it goes: the story never rings true, not even for a short while. Another problem always accompanying such a cast of simplistic characters: the end is way too predictable.

Such a shame, this could have been so good.

Performance: the narrator does her best to stick to the stereotypical concepts of the characters, even going a bit overboard at times. For example: just because a character has a Spanish or Indian name, is it strictly necessary to go down the Homer-Simpson's Apu road of overexaggerated dialects? I thought that kind of ethnical stereotyping was a thing of the past?

All in all, this still has/had the potential to entertain, though. The most disappointing thing is that it could have so easily been so much better. Therefore 2 stars instead of 1 for both story and performance. Not much harm done, however, one may argue, as these titles are part of the "plus catalogue" thus free of charge.

PS: books 1 to 3 are more like chapters of one book than a series of three individual books.

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