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Alone
- Generations Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Scott Sigler
- Narrated by: AB Kovacs
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler's unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story but....
- By Anonymous User on 27-08-2020
- Alone
- Generations Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Scott Sigler
- Narrated by: AB Kovacs
Disappointing
Reviewed: 06-09-2017
I found this disappointing. The contrast between the two narrators is stark, too stark. Listening to Kovacs read is like hearing the story being read by a 25 year old Em to a 12 year old child. I found it almost boring. When listening to Emma Galvin's version of Em you feel like the story is unfolding before your eyes (or ears). You are there with Em, in the moment, in middle of the action and it's intense. Everything that happened in the final book felt like it was happening to someone else - another Em and not the Em I grow to know from the first two books. I found it hard to care for her in the same way. If you liked the series it's worth getting to the end. However I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd just read it.
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- By: Carrie Ryan
- Narrated by: Vane Millon
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story3 out of 5 stars 9
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her. She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stay with it
- By Kaya on 21-08-2017
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- By: Carrie Ryan
- Narrated by: Vane Millon
I'm not sure what others have seen in this book.
Reviewed: 31-05-2017
So downloaded this book because it kept coming up in my "recommend for you" list. I read some reviews all pretty positive. I read the blurb and it sounded like an interesting concept. I didn't listen to a sample though. It was a mistake. I honestly found the narration boring. Why? Because the narrator sounded like she was bored. There was basically no emotion in this narration and some of the phasing was down right strange like a mature sounding primary schooler trying really hard to observe all the grammatical inflections. As this book had a director, I imagine that it was intentional and not necessarily a reflection on the narrator herself. It was so, so hard to keep engaged with the story. I was also waiting for something to happen in the story that wasn't just happenstance. Nothing happens as a result of the main character making strong choices. To me the main character came off as selfish and uninteresting but who knows how I'd feel if the read was more engaging. I also thought the all characters responses were unrealistic. If you like zombies and teen love stories and don't mind the style of the narration give it I go. I shall be returning this one.
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Genesis
- By: Bernard Beckett
- Narrated by: Becky Wright
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better. She's sat facing three Examiners and her gruelling four-hour examination has just begun. After the Great War in 2077, her island Republic emerged from a ruined world. Its citizens were safe - but never free. They lived in complete isolation from the outside. Until one man rescued a girl from the sea, and shook the very foundations on which the Republic was built. It was a time where ancient philosophical questions had collided dramatically with the march of technology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unique Slow Burn
- By Amazon Customer on 24-02-2017
- Genesis
- By: Bernard Beckett
- Narrated by: Becky Wright
Not my cup of tea.
Reviewed: 01-11-2016
If you like books where the main character spends majority of the time recounting the story of a fabricated historical person and not telling their own story then go ahead and read this book. It was not my cup of tea.