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The Orbs Series Box Set: Books 1-4

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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A thrilling collection of the entire best-selling Orbs series from New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith.

While training for a manned mission to Mars, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team of scientists find themselves cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped inside a biosphere deep within the confines of Cheyenne Mountain, Sophie and crew discover they are the survivors of a brutal alien invasion. But as they struggle to stay alive, they realize their safe haven is far from safe and that they must team up with other survivors around the world to defeat the aliens before it’s too late for humanity and the Earth.

©2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 Orbs I © 2013 by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Orbs II © 2014 by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Orbs III © 2015 by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Orbs IV © 2018 by Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Anthony J. Melchiorri (P)2021 by Blackstone Publishing Adventure Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction First Contact Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Scary Survival
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and then everything became way too far fetched, too many holes in the storyline. performance was good, however, too much shouting for my liking.

Started out with so much potential

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The underlying story concept is good. I was entertained through book 1.
By book 3 it was getting hard to continue - the story elements were repeating themselves. Not much new in the story line.
I struggled through book 4. Gave up about 1 hour from completing.
Maybe the editor should have trimmed back to TWO books.

Hmmmmm!

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The story kept me listening, and wanting to hear more. It did get a little repetitive in book 4, but not too annoyingly. I was able to really feel for the characters and be involved in their development.

Enjoyable story, kept me listening.

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took a bit to get into but once I did couldn't stop listened to it over about 5 nights

thrilling story

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Well written, some of the voices the narrator does though get very annoying very quickly, he sounds like a robot impersonating a person, which is even worse when he reads the voice of the Computer, so he sounds like a robot impersonating a person playing a computer/robot, I am considering a refund based on this alone, good story though!

Interesting story but the voices..

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Pseudo intellectual, romance novel.
Writing a character more intelligent than yourself is very difficult, which is unfortunate when the 5 characters are all supposed to be unparalleled, experts in their fields.
The dialogue is janky and the characters are weak and not overly believable.

"The girl with all the gifts" is quite similar in tone, but better written and more enjoyable to listen to. check that out instead.

mediocre

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Loved the Series, only thing I would add is when it changes scenes something to indicate this as I got a bit confused now and then, other then that I loved it.

Loved it, I binged all 4 books.

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Narrator has an annoying habit of empathising random words in a sentence, it’s extremely distracting, if it hadn’t been for the desire to hear the conclusion to the story I would have given up long before the end of the book.

Entertaining, however, another narrator would have made it better.

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Interesting story line, set in the not too distant future. Earth has been pummelled by solar flares and temperatures have risen. A Biospheres project containing scientists going into lock down for a 6 month training mission, to eventually end up on mars has just commenced. 3 days into the mission aliens invade, they are after earths water supply and drain it dry… The majority of earths population is wiped out in a matter of months. With a handful of military personnel, doctors, scientists and some lucky kids you are taken on an agonising journey of survival of the human race.
Some of the AI voice work was hard to listen to at the start but was worth getting past that! Cool story line, full of twists and turns to keep you interested.

Survival of the fittest

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Really loved the narration and voice acting , could completely visualise the whole thing

Epic science fiction sage , with space spiders!

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