Last Contact

Titan Chronicles, Book 3

De: Samuel Best

Narrado por: Jonathan Davis

The end begins.

A meteor makes landfall in South Africa, carrying a strange substance that alters plants, soil—and humans.

Yet something much more dangerous is on a collision course with Earth—something that will change the future forever.

In a Hail Mary attempt to save the planet from certain doom, the government sends a ship and its crew directly into the path of the oncoming threat. The crew’s daring plan might be the only way to save humanity.

Meanwhile, a research station in orbit around Venus could hold the key to survival. The scientists on board have been studying an alien creature that may be connected to Earth’s imminent demise—if only they could make contact…

©2021 Samuel Best (P)2022 Podium Audio

Titan Chronicles Series

Plot. Throughout the three-book series, we're dealing with an alien entity whose objectives aren't obvious, at least to this writer. There is a slew of techno-babble that will either delight or frustrate the space fans among us - mostly frustrate. It's not simply a space opera - but also includes sabotage and corporate espionage - and a bit of romance. But ... it's never clear exactly what the aliens want besides a moon of Jupiter, Titan, or the planet Venus. Do the aliens want to be friends? You'll never know - at least, I couldn't tell. Throw in the annihilation of mankind because of comets/meteors. Wait...what? Aliens AND meteors?

Liked. No sex, no offensive language, clean reads. Narration is fine; no trouble discerning who is speaking to whom. Bumped the speed to 1.5.

Not so hot. Holes in the story - lots - unnecessary subplots and characters. Needs a story editor.

Written by Samuel Best and narrated by Jonathan Davis. Each story is in the area of 10 hours of listening in unabridged audiobook format, released from March 2022 through August 2022 by Podium Audio.

Umm…Not sure how to feel about this one.

The first two books were good, but something’s…off with this one. The story started out ok, but starts to wander. The further you go the more disjointed it feels…it’s as if the author went in with only a vague idea of where he wanted to go but decided to keep writing.

I was really enjoying this series when…

No spoilers but what happened to the author 2/3rds in on this final installment? It felt like “eh I’m tired of this story. Let’s wrap it up.” It’s a shame, too.

ugh

this was a slog to get through really boring and just better off avoided. spend your money elsewhere

TERRIBLE… No other way to put it.

First book was very good, second book was ok but this third book is just a Huge rambling mess of words just to drag it out and try to justify the cost…