Sea of Red

De: James Bultema

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Award Finalist American Fiction Awards & Award Finalist Best Thrillers Awards

Sea of Red is an action-packed Military Thriller involving a war between China and the U.S. in their fight over Taiwan.

With Chinese hypersonic cruise missiles thundering toward the aircraft carrier USS Reagan, the captain has only minutes to decide how to save his crew of 5,000 before they all end up at the bottom of the South China Sea.

As the battle rages, under the sea, U.S. fast attack submarines silently maneuver against the PLA Navy while jet fighters battle for air superiority. On the ground, Marines fight for control of Chinese-held Woody Island. A Taiwanese tank squadron confronts a superior attacking force on Kinmen Island in a courageous attempt to halt Chinese forces.

In the White House, the president strategizes with his National Security Council on overcoming China's advantage in ballistic missiles and ships. His counterpart, the president of China, develops a daring plan to destroy America's fleet of aircraft carriers.

Sea of Red is a must-read, powerful new Techno-Thriller with warriors you won't soon forget.

The reader has a way of making the story irritating.

I just had to stop listening half way through. The reader was so bad that when the story spoke about 9/11. The reader stated it as “9 to 11,” like it was a shift at work versus a tragic date in American history.

Very good story, AI narration poor

I enjoyed this story very much. It was reminiscent of Red Storm Rising, which is high praise indeed. However, the AI narration, while easy to listen to, missed out on quite a bit of opportunities when some emotion would be useful. Also, the AI narrator failed to recognize that an acronym such as PLAAF (PLA Air Force) is not pronounced "PLAAF". There were quite a few errors of this type scattered throughout the book, especially as the author included many abbreviations when describing the military technologies of the US, Taiwan, and China. These made the performance rather irritating.

AI narration

Great book but the AI is so monotonous that it ruins the story. It needs a human to give the excitement it deserves.

Great story

Great story definitely laid out a realistic way things could happen
AI narration wasn’t enjoyable

Not a fan of the AI narration

The story was good, but the AI generated narration was monotonous and failed to convey any semblance of human emotion. There were also numerous errors in pronunciation and the voice was garbled at times.

plot

too much description and ordinance naming. very tiring naming each munitions, it destroyed the plot

Do not care for “Virtual Voice”

While I liked the listen, I do not care for the monatomic virtual voice. There is no audial feeling added to the story line as a human voice actor does. I recommend the book but have issue with the synthetic voice is all.

Disappointing

Book started out strong but ended poorly. It felt like the author was writing the story and half way through decided to end it. No follow up on characters and action. Just stopped.

Good story

Virtual voice was terrible mispronounced words garbled at times and too robotic no emotion in the reading

Terrible AI audible book!

The AI "performance" was without any emotion or dramatic story telling. For the amount of money amazing audible charges for these performance, I expect a REAL HUMAN PERFORMER not a lifeless AI dead panning the whole novel! There is no dramatic presentation, no different voice for characters, and no engagement for the customer listening and/or reading during the performance! AI as it stands presently is a colossal waste of money for people looking forward to an entertaining story with a narrator who brings the story to life. My Two Cents.