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Salvation Lost
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: Salvation Sequence, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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Fight together - or die alone....
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Salvation Lost is the second book in the Salvation Sequence by Peter F. Hamilton.
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- thomas
- 25-11-2020
😊😊😊😊
it's just what you're expecting. high quality from this author and narrator as always. it feels like a mix between some of the previous series premises but that's not a complaint.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-2020
Let down by the details
The major story arc is interesting and engaging enough but some of the individual plot lines are fairly weak. Not as bad as Salvation but eye rolling nevertheless. The dialogue is poor made worse by the narration. Not sure why every character needs to have a different accents but it's jarring to say the least. But good to see that the Brummie accent is alive and well in the 22nd century. Im still keen to see how the trilogy ends but it's the meta story that keeps my here... Really don't care about the main characters and the incidental plot lines just scream 'filler'.
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- Gwilym Major
- 17-08-2020
Great story, quality science fiction
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- Anonymous User
- 19-03-2020
Great book
Great book, especially liked the far future parts, waiting for the final book to come out
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- Benjamin
- 02-12-2019
Fantastic!
Hamilton at his best!! Fast pace , action packed heavy SCI-FI. If you like sci-fi, recommend ++
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- Anonymous User
- 21-11-2019
Fantastic
Another fantastic story and performance. Can not wait for the next book in the series.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-11-2019
Great
Another great experience from Peter F. Hamilton and John Lee. Can't wait for the conclusion!
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- Mont6760
- 12-11-2019
Such talent!
The narration, matches with the story, is just so very good. These are a quality production and I love them.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-11-2019
Bit monotonous
Bit hard to follow, not sure there is a part 3.worth persevering,live long and prosper
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- Marco
- 27-12-2019
slow and unfulfilling... again
I cant really say what is wrong with this book, it follows a similar pattern as other sagas, but it feels fragmented and with many characters and events that seem unimportant, I understand that probably they will be crucial for the last book in the trilogy, but you can't have half of the books narrating stuff that doesn't quite connect to anything and seems unimportant that just makes it a bad book.
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- Trex
- 25-11-2019
Much Better Than The Last One
I wasn't mad about the first book. This is better. (Not a spoiler) Actually the best bit is the stuff with the High Flyer. I still mix up some of the guys from the assessment team apart from the Scottish guy which is a bit weak. A lot of hate for John Lee in the reviews ? Maybe the American ear doesn't suit his voice but I think he & Hamilton go together like rejuvenation clinics and enzyme bonded concrete.
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- J
- 16-12-2020
A little slow and meandering
I know that Hamilton’s books are long and detailed and full of individual story arcs that come together towards the end. And I usually like it (esp the Commonwealth saga). However, here it seems like a bit of pointless dithering. I had more or less lost interest in the “now” even during the first book, and the future setting is where all the action will take place so that is what I want to read about. I think that he should have written the story more linearly, but I understand that he didn’t want to come to the point where “the plan” was set into motion and having to write “and then 10000 years passed” before kicking off the final part (which is what Neal Stephenson did in his absolutely horrible Seveneves). So, I still enjoyed it, but 80% felt like filler, especially clearly felt in the audio book format.
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- ANJA MUSAR
- 25-10-2020
Great 2nd part of the series
I really like Peter F. Hamilton's books and this series is really good. Can't wait for the last one. I hope the ending will be as good as is in his other book series.
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- Roy
- 10-11-2019
Not as good as the first book
An ok story but the character voices put me off, nearly every character has what sounds to me like an East London accent and the 'posh' characters all sound like reformed gangsters from East London. Ainsley's contributions are basically saying F#ck a lot, without actually coming up with any useful ideas - so much for the technical genius. Peter is one of the best in my opinion but I think I'll skip the final book in this series and wait for the next series.
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- Vinay Sastry
- 12-11-2019
Good story marred by bad narration
The overall story is good, but the narrator's attempts at non English accents is horrendous irrespective of the accent he tries to emulate
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- kieran J Kelly
- 04-11-2019
Would make for Fantastic TV
An excellent follow up to the superb Salvation. The story whips along much faster this with none of the character flashbacks this time. My only mild criticisms are: it’s over too soon! Obviously it lacks some of the mystery of the first book...
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- jonathan
- 07-06-2020
Amazing *****
Amazing story it's definitely up there with Ian Banks, can't wait for the next one
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- MAX
- 10-02-2020
Loving this series
I was amazed when he read the parts happing in Croydon, some of it was right on my doorstep down Beddington Lane. Great work Mr Hamiltion. Glad John Lee was narrating again to.
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- S. Morris
- 24-10-2020
Opportunity Lost
Well, my review of the first book in this three part series defended the claim that "nothing much happens", my view being that that first book was setting the stage for-the middle act and therefore for readers to be patient. I have to confess, after just finishing reading that middle act, Salvation lost, that I couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed. I had expected that once the ground work had been laid so well in the first instalment to this trilogy, that this second instalment would really hit the ground running. The invasion was on, the decades long deception was over and now the pace was set to ramp up in this story. Umm ... not so much I'm afraid to say. Don't get me wrong, I am a champion of the classic "slow burner" and love the immense world building that Peter F. Hamilton can do so well. I sipped that fine wine that was the first part of this series with great anticipation for this book. Alas, I'd have to say that Hamilton really didn't get anything of great significance to happen with respect the direct assault that was expected until just about half way through this story! Sure, he focused on elements at the periphery such as Ollie and his Southwark gang and their unwitting part in crippling part of London's power generation network. All this is fine and Hamilton is excellent at painting complex collections of characters and the world they inhabit. however, not quite enough happened in the first half of this book to hold my interest as much as in the first in the series. I really think Hamilton wasted an opportunity to get this moving much quicker and thus pack more into this story. I do really like Hamilton's writing abilities, his incredible imagination and skill at generating rich and complex worlds, but there are times where he hangs around in the weeds too much. With the worlds and habitats he has already touched on in his first book, he could've taken us on journey's to those places as the war unfolded and expanded the cast of characters and their plights to really drive home the widespread scale of the conflict. Things become far more interesting for me when Hamilton does start to do just that, but by now we're half way through the book and the forays to other asteroids and an habitat are too limited and only offer a taste of the growing human story he might have told. In fact, given the massive scope of the potential spread of humanity here, we could have had a long series of books that focused on different groups as they struggled to survive. I've seen this sort of narrow focus before, where authors paint us a broad potential canvas in their extensive world building phase, only to limit their narrative to a tiny portion of it. I understand that having too large a cast of characters can dilute things and that it's a balancing act, but entire books in the series could've focused on disparate groups of people in their story of survival. So far, I feel that the Commonwealth saga was a better series of books and mainly because it managed to take us to more worlds than this series has. I found, for example, that the trail ranger journey in the first book that set out on an alien and unexplored planet to be far more mysterious and compelling than the grubby streets of Southwark. On that subject, I found that hearing of places such as Plough lane, Richmond, Kew gardens and other areas that are just down the road from me tend to make such stories feel far less mysterious and exotic and bring a depressing air of the mundane to things. Probably just me, I know, but that's how I felt. I have to conclude that "Salvation Lost" was more akin to opportunity lost as much as I hate to say it. I do like Hamilton's work, but he can be rather hit and miss at times. In overall terms, I enjoyed this book, but I only began to feel that way after the half way point. Interestingly, the end of this book has a section summarising the key events in history that led to the current society and situation faced in this series. For me, this would have been far more helpful had it been placed at the beginning, as a sort of foreword or prologue, in book one. Why it was left to the end of this book is a bit odd. Alas, Salvation Lost was not the middle act I was hoping for. I can't say I hated it, not at all. It was just less than I'd hoped for in this pivotal part of the three book series.
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- Muzzy
- 10-05-2020
underwhelming
Peter F. Hamilton has written some epic space operas. This isn't one of them. Slow. Repetitive and full of forgettable two dimensional characters. Reading this is akin to watching paint dry. I suspect the author could have condensed this into a sharp story, one book or at most two books long as he did with the fantastic, Pandora's star - but it seems he decided to milk it and pad it out needlessly resulting in a great concept, delivered in a watered down lacklustre story that is diluted with hours of filler.
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- ThorfinnSS
- 24-03-2020
Classic Hamilton
Really good story. Narration took some getting used to - a declamatory style intrudes in full immersion IMHO. Looking forward to the last in the trilogy.
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- Jon
- 22-03-2020
Gripping From Start To Finish!
Hamilton has another trilogy masterpiece here! John Lee's narration brings the characters and story to vivid life! I simply can't fault this book!
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- Iron Duke
- 17-12-2019
The narrator kills this
John Lee narrates all of Hamilton’s books so I’m used to the delivery of.ev.ery.word.syll.able.by.syll.able but this book has some heavy dialog which John Lee mutilates in his awful attempt at accents. Often I can’t tell who is the speaker or even the supposed gender of the speaker. Can’t really review the book because I spent so much time reuniting trying to work out what was going on.
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- Mo
- 21-11-2019
Latest Instalment
This is the first Peter F Hamilton book that I've read that is just an instalment rather than a novel on it's own right but part of a series. Exciting and full of the future tech you expect from him. The best stuff happens towards the end, then it tells you have to wait until next time. Grrrr! Can't wait for the next part though.
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- Steve M
- 16-11-2019
Excellent Story
Really looking forward to the concluding 3rd book. But don’t rush it Peter, hopeing for surprise’s in the plot
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