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T. Warrington

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Brisk writing style

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-10-24

This is a series you just can’t stop listening too. Been a fan for a long time.

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Excellent performance

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-31-24

Great overall, though the accent given to Muldoon -who is supposedly a white Kenyan- starts out as Afrikaans (white South African) and switches to a more generalized African accent.

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Good performance of a meh story

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-30-23

As title. The performance was outstanding, but the story itself was bland. With the ending it has, the story could have been shorter and not drag on like it did.

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Good performance

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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-23-23

Does a great job of bringing the Lion into the current setting. Voice actor was great as well.

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One of the funner series

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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-25-23

While grim dark, the Ciaphas Cain series has more humor than other books or series. It’s refreshing to say the least.

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Awesome work as always

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-24-23

Narrator does a great job of breathing life into all of the characters. And keeps up with dialogue fairly well too.

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Terrible story carried by a great narrator

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-01-22

This book sounds like the author made a list of tropes from other Alien media, and then slapped a story on it. The female lead keeps flip flopping between ruthless and overly emotional, and male lead starts as a bad caricature of sociopath company man and ends with him being even more of a caricature. He’s a copy of Patrick Bateman in all but name.

As for the story, it’s too busy. There’s three separate characters all out to betray the rest of the crew, and some how no one catches on. The male lead shows up with the ridiculous plot point of cleaning house to save money, but seems more intent on dominating or sleeping with the staff and then firing everyone. And finally the story just drags on at the end when it’s down to the two leads. It goes back and forth, with cliffhangers over who’s going to live and who dies, it just got repetitive.

The only good thing about this was the narrator. He absolutely carried this trash story through to the end.

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A review of the audio book

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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-25-22

It’s a bit jarring to have performers for parts of the audio book and then just the narrator.

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Great overall

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-24-22

But the narrator right at the end flipped accents during one point, then flipped back. Otherwise overall great reading of a great book.

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Skip Alien 3 for this version

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5 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-07-19

Definitely skip the poor excuse of a story that is Alien 3. Alan Dean Foster can work magic (love his adaptions), but noone could salvage Aliens 3.

I am a long time fan of the Alien series and also a huge fan of Gibsons. So this is a match made in heaven. Additionally, this audio drama hooked me so well with it production values, I got an actual Audible account just to keep getting more of Maggs work on the Alien series.

The only reason I dinged it on performance, is that towards the beginning, Mr. Biehn sounds very rough, and it takes about 45 minutes for him to start sounding like Hicks again (having rewatched Aliens prior to starting this). At one point it sounds like hes talking out of the side of his mouth. By the end though he is in fine form.

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