Saving Alice Ryan

The Whales of Time, Book 3

De: Craig Robertson

Narrado por: Scott Aiello

Over Jon Ryan's very long life, he's managed to make a lot of very powerful enemies.

Mostly, he's accomplished this antisocial feat by exterminating them because they posed a threat to galactic peace or common decency. As with any action, there can be an equal and opposite reaction. Now, a fundamental force of existence named Xyándor is after Jon. You see, Xyándor's sole purpose is to spawn chaos. So he's dead set on killing Jon because our hero snuffs out chaos on a routine basis. Most likely, this Xyándor character must've had a really troubled childhood, right?

But Xyándor has observed Jon for a very long time. He knows that it's right there next to impossible to kill Jon Ryan. The man's irritatingly resourceful, skilled, and lucky. So, instead of a direct confrontation, Xyándor elects to kidnap Jon's mother, Alice Ryan. He will use her to get his vengeance on Jon. Hey, here's a question for you: what do you think happens to anyone who even thinks about harming one hair on Jon's dear mother's head? Yeah, something very not good, that's what happens to that individual.

So it's game on. Alice is missing, and Jon's going to find her if it's the last thing he ever does. The problem is that it might very well be the last thing he ever does. You see, Xyándor has a couple of outstandingly useful assets on his side. One, he's transcendentally powerful, able to manipulate the very fabric of space/time at will. And he's not actually alive. That's gonna make killing him awfully darn hard, now won't it?

Who's your money on? Jon, because he's the lethal human that he is? Or do you favor Xyándor, an eternal lifeless demigod? Well, listen to Saving Alice Ryan and find out where the smart money is. You'll be so glad you did!

©2025 Craig Robertson (P)2025 Podium Audio

Amazing

I love Scott Aiello and how well he portrays the various characters. I thought the story was fantastic. When 3 act as 1. It was awesome to see the relationship between the John’s become cohesive when it mattered.

it was a bit different.

I liked it but it was a bit slower than the others. Still fun though.

Always an interesting listen

Would definitely recommend listening to the whole series especially with this book, or it may feel pretty random. Just as you wouldn’t hop into book 5 of hitchhikers guide if never knowing the series and hope to catch on to the bizarre

The stories have just become jokes

I have listened to all of the Ryanverse stories. In the beginning they were awesome. The stories had a lot of meat and body, but the last 3-5 stories have just been a bunch of jokes and silliness. While that's fun, there needs to be more. This one started off great, but then when it got to the main characters it was all jokes again. The climax of the story is like, "Oh btw, bang, we win, now let's get back to being silly." You could rip out about half the book and not make any difference. Maybe it's time to retire Ryan. If there's another book, I really hope there's more story to it. Oh, and Scott Aiello is amazing! I have bought books just because he's reading them!

Short and unexciting story

I’ve followed the Ryanverse for a while. Some of the story lines stand out more than others but this was by far the more flat installment. I like listening to the gang and their antics again but this does not add anything to the larger narrative and had a very disappointing plot progression. I hope that if there are more Ryan books in the future, that can be fleshed out a little more, even if they take more time to write. As always amazing performance by Scott who breaths so much life into the charters

Mediocre at best.

Disappointing, lack luster. Boring compared to the previous storyline. Wished author went into a different direction.

What happened to Mavis?!

Could have been expanded into several books. Scryblood(?) had/has great potential as a villian. I can't tell you how many times I have listened to the entire series and I only have one question-What happened to Mavis Ryan? Remember when Miri asked john what his mother's name was?

Meh

The narrating was great, the story was pretty blah though. And the climax came and went pretty quickly and predictably. I love the storyline but it’s starting to get stale

Narrator

It was great to hear all the characters congregate. I guess something is better than nothing.