Great book from a fantastic author

I loved Pandora's star. I still rate it amongst the best book's I've ever read, but I didn't like Judas Unchained. It didn't engage me much. I was a bit concerned the same things would happen here. I loved the Dreaming Void, and the characters and progression they (and The Commonwealth) had made in the intervening centuries. Thankfully, it didn't disappoint.

The narrator of this book is John Lee, a favourite of mine - albeit from non-fiction books - and he comes in for some unfair criticism in other reviews. Although he gets off to a slightly shaky start, it quickly gets much better, and I actually preferred his style to the one adopted by Toby Longworth, who tried to give voices to every character in The Dreaming Void and ended up with some rather dubious accents. The only criticism I have is the inconsistent pronunciation of names. One of the central characters and a key location are named differently in the books, which I found irritating.

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A new narrator, but still good

Like others, I was disappointed with the change of narrator. Not really as good as the Toby Longworth. However, I have to say that I got used to the new voices fairly quickly.

The story itself is, as always with this author, intriguing. You just can't help getting involved in the characters' lives. Looking forward to the finale. Hope it keeps up the pace.

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Incredible listen!

A lot of time is spent developing the characters and back story so you need to be patient before appreciating the whole picture but it works! Great story!

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Lost for words

Usually a review title pops out at me but I honestly don't know what to say.

Peter F Hamilton does it again with this incredibly written, emotionally engaging story. After reading the original commonwealth series (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained) which was incredible, I then read book 1 of this series (The Dreaming Void) and felt a little less satisfied. However, now after reading book 2, the story (or should I say stories) really intensifies and the threads begin to weave together, and it's just as gripping as I found the first series to be!

The concepts Hamilton describes are exceptionally creative and a little mind bending towards the end! I always find myself listening for hours on end, like binge watching a Netflix series, because I just can't get enough.

I'll be moving right on to book 3. Thank you for writing such masterpieces, Hamilton!

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A great tale, brilliantly narrated

brilliantly narrated - it was a bold move to change narrator after the first book of the trilogy, but the right one; this narrator adds to the story, rather than distracting from it with silly voices. it's a great story too, weaving together two plots which, for most writers, would each have been worthy of their own book.

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Excellent

Great book once you get over the change in narrator! All the characters voices change so takes awhile to get use to! But all round great book again.

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Better than he's getting credit for

I disagree with the other reviewers on here that are criticising the narrator, after 30 minutes he finds his feet and then proceeds to deliver hour after hour of very good storytelling. He doesn't attempt to be a voice-actor like the reader of the previous book did and I think that's why he's getting some grief but after the initial thirty minutes he definitely picks up in quality and delivers a good performance. The story itself is obviously very fascinating and I need a story of this length to make my commute bearable. I'd recommend it.

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Narrators.

Their is a lots of peeps on here saying about the narrators, John Lee is fantastic, he is absolutely superb in every Ken Follet novel I have heard him narrate ( A couple now), he really does get involved.



I also really like Toby Longworth who narrated the 1st book in this trilogy and the "Greg Mandel" series of books, I am pretty much with everyone else on here once you change narrators it screws up the books a bit, I am used to Toby's voices for this and then they have changed it has confused me slightly, I wish they had of kept Toby for these books.



Anyway onto the book, Its fantastic, cant wait to listen to the 3rd, it would of got 5 stars for me if they had of kept the same author!!!

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Sound level are a bit sketchy at the beginning

Once you get past that, John Lee narrates it very, very well. I don't usually like narrator changes mid way through a series but I've listened to him previously and know how good he is.
The story is fabulous as expected. I have six days to wait for my next credit and it is already spent on the next installment.

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GRIPPING STORY...

Unputdownable...story of these characters is a great tribute to its author imagination. Thank you I enjoyed this so much.

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