Gil's World

Wanderers, Book 1

De: James Murdo

Narrado por: Rhett Samuel Price

Three hundred million years ago, the galactic community was taken by surprise. A catastrophic war with a hostile entity threatened to destroy all life until the fight was postponed by a calamitous event known as the Great Conflation. With the majority of pre-Conflation empires in ruins and the Ascended Biologicals wiped out, the hastily formed Wanderer Enclave tasked its fleet with unearthing answers and continuing the fight.

One lone ship has found something: an innocuous world it had marked for routine decontamination that may hold vital answers.

Gil, a young woman with special abilities, battles to save the future of her commune and possibly much more.

©2018 James Murdo (P)2018 James Murdo

It was going very well, and then it just ended...

I fully understand that this is book 1 is a series, but it has to have some sort of conclusion, instead, two characters are having a conversation (that's not really related to anything that's already happened), and all of a sudden, Mr. Price says..."This has been Gil's world"....no satisfaction of any of the story lines, no real pointing forwards to what's going to happen, no cliff hanger...nothing...

I was really enjoying it up to that point. It was well written, and Mr. Price has a very luxurious easy to listen to voice, but the ending...well, for me anyway, there wasn't one.

I received a promotional copy of this book and have left this review voluntarily.

Decent to great depending taste

Had a very interesting premise which is what lead to try out the book. It gave me mass effect like vibes which is what drew me too it but it had more flash and less substance

OK

My problem with this book, like many other reviewers is that part of the story is told from Aliens/machines. I still don't really know which. It also doesn't help that the author gaves these characters numbers instead of names which confused me a lot because the author gives us a history of what happens until they get to the point where they meet up with Gil. Now this is not a bad thing but because there are many characters that are numbered I got myself really confused with who was who and I found it really boring because it felt like I was listening to a text book being recited more then a story. This did not help because I switched off at times. If there is a test based on this book then I would fail. The only part I did like was Gil's POV. There is dialogue between the characters, we get to know their society they live in and it is not long. The only thing that made me listen to the audiobook is I wanted to know what happens to Gil and her brother. There is also something that happens in the book towards the end that I was not expecting and I wish the author did not do. I must admit I shed a few tears. The book does end on a cliff hanger. Do I want to know what happens next? The strange thing is I do. I want to know what happens to Gil and her village. I hope the next book is better.
There is no sexual content or profanity but it does have some violence but it is mild. The ironic thing is I would recommend this book. If you can get over the other POV then this is not a bad book.

Gil's World

I really enjoyed this story and performance.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Audio quality needs to be improved

Could not enjoy this Audio Book the Audio needs to be done again.

I am sorry but it is hard to listen to any Book if you struggle to listen to the performance.

The work deserves a better chance to be presented to the listener.




This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review

Poor audio production quality, good story.

Audio quality was subpar, lots of hissing and rumbling. Sounds like the narrator was to close to the mic and audio was adjusted after the fact, poorly.

Good story, narrator does terrible women's voices, always sounds like they are whining. Just give them a difference, don't try to sound feminine, it doesn't work with your voice.

It's like two different books...

The premise is interesting, but I just couldn't get into it.

It's like there are two different books. The odd-numbered chapters are from a spaceship. It reads like a boring history or science lesson. I had no idea what was going on.

The even-numbered chapters are from the perspective of people, primarily Gil or the title, who live on a primitive world in a collective. I loved these chapters.

Maybe it's because the odd-numbered chapters felt so technical. Maybe it's because there really wasn't a character to lock onto. I just couldn't wait to get through those chapters.

I really enjoyed the characters in the even-numbered chapters. I loved learning about their world and their relationships to each other. I wish the whole book could have been written from Gil's point of view. Though it's frustrating to think that Gil lost the ability to speak as the result of an accident as a child and many years later, they still hadn't developed some sort of sign language or pictorial communication. Just because there's no written language doesn't mean you can't draw pictures to communicate! Deaf people make up gestures to communicate even when they don't know sign language, so that part was very frustrating to me.

I really, really, REALLY wanted to like this book. It just kept missing the mark.

It might have helped if the audio quality was better. The narrator has this wonderful, deep, rumbling James Earl Jones voice, but sound engineers, you have to turn down the bass or it just sounds rumbly. I could actually feel the car vibrating from the bass when I listened in the car. Maybe not reading in a monotone would have helped the technical chapters, though I think he might have been doing that on purpose to convey the mechanical nature of the narrator for those chapters. If that's what he was doing, it didn't work. His wonderfully soothing voice, with bass so strong it was hard to tell what he was saying, just kind of lulled me to sleep.

I think this one might work better as a print book where I can more easily refer back to the science-y chapters to help understand what's going on as I need to, and not have to struggle so hard to understand the narrator.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review

I found it hard to follow, but I will listen again

The numeric character names didn't suit audio, but the story was interesting. I will listen again to better my understanding (and many I don't bother doing that with).

Great Concept, Weak Execution

This book was interesting. The concept grabbed my attention immediately. The author has created an interesting dynamic wherein he illustrates facinating differences in perspective. My principle complaint is that every character in this story seems incapable of getting to the point. Ever..

The narrator's voice grated on my ears. While he was able to capture some of the characters' emotions decently, he mispronsounced some words and spoke with so much bass, that it was difficult to follow/enjoy the endless dialogue.

A great story

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

So glad the audio was fixed because this was a really good book. I really enjoyed the story and thought the author did a great job world building. The characters were interesting. The narrator did a great job with the voices and really brought this book to life. All in all, I think this is definitely worth a listen.