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Cibola Burn

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds, and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world.

James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the heart of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilisation which once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed them.

Cibola Burn is the exhilarating fourth novel in the New York Times best-selling Expanse series, following the Hugo-nominated Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, and Abaddon's Gate.

Please note: The original recording has now been replaced with a new performance by Jefferson Mays. If you own this audiobook, simply re-download it from your library to access the new recording.

©2014 Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (P)2014 Hachette Audio

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Loved the story, but why change the narrator!

As always these book continue to be an awesome ride filled with characters I love to hear about. Was super happy to hear from Bobby and Avesarila again.

My major disappointment is from the change of the narrator. Accents change, and types of voices, which in the case of Amos change his personality to me.

Apart from that, an awesome listen.

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TERRIBLE narration

Oh no! New narrator!
This guy delivered a stilted delivery and inhumanly bizzare inflection worthy of a nineties speech-synthesizer.
Way overcooked accents - British, German - and will male narrators please STOP voicing ALL women characters with this breathy, insipid tone that just belittles the characters and women everywhere.
Gahhhh, been loving the series up to this point, and this performance really took me out of the story. Thank the Lord Jefferson Mays is back for the next one.

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Jefferson Mays nails another amazing Expanse Novel

I am puzzled by the reviews here. The version I listened to was certainly narrated by Jefferson Mays, just as the previous 3 books (and at least the next book after this one) are. At the very least, as of May of 2017, the version made available here is narrated flawlessly by Jefferson Mays (rather than Erick Davies, who, google tells me, has also done a narration of this book).

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Great story, didn't enjoy the voice performance

If you have enjoyed the series so far you'll enjoy this book too. New setting, Jim Holden and his crew plus new characters and as a nice surprise some minor characters in previous books are major characters in this one. There is genuine tension and excitement in this story and I lol'd a couple of times. It is science heavy, epecially when talking about biology but that made it more immersive for me.There was one thing I thought let the story down, but only a little and it's too much of a spoiler to name it.
What let it down a lot was the voice performance. The cadence of his reading with a small break in between each word disrupted the flow and really grated on me. Even some dialogue was read the same way. The voices of some of the characters were too similar to my ear and it took context or actual "..he said" for me to know he was talking. I got used to it all but it took me half the book at least.
Overall, still worth a listen if you love the series.

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Started a bit slowly but feels like it's building

Great series, love the characters and setting. Narrator is consistently good to, especially at doing Avasarala's lines which were sadly a bit limited in this book.

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Great story shame about the narration

Why Jefferson Mays did not read this book as he has done the rest of the series, I don't know. This new guy leaves so much space between words he sounds like a robot or someone with a learning difficulty. Luckily the story is so good you can ignore it but if you can find it read by someone else, anybody else, get that copy instead.

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More disappointing than finding out you're adopted

The performer is garbage. Story is alright, very middle of arc though. Things happen but they don't really change things. Man this performer is bad.

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outdated references

the author have a tendency to reference events that are normally known or reference in the 21th century instead of referencing just as relevant in universe events that would be fresh in the minds of the people of the expense, it takes me out of the story every time

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Good, not great, but still enjoyable

Consistently enjoyable and what you’d expect from the writers but felt a bit paint by numbers.

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This one really delivers

Really enjoyed reading, book 4, and looking forward to the next in the series. Some surprising twists along the way which certainly keeps the reader engaged.

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