Seven Surrenders

De: Ada Palmer

Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith

The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.

For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy the than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life.

Shot through with astonishing invention, Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great SF epics of our time.

©2017 Ada Palmer (P)2017 Recorded Books

Complex Story Continues

The complexity of this series deserves a 're-read' at some point but the story line became more comprehensible and somewhat action packed in conclusion.
Smith is a great narrator handling the nuances and many characters a bit better than Mays (who is great also) in the first half.

Absolutely incredible

I stumbled across this series from a booktuber and have been astounded from the first sentence. This is the book series I didn’t realize I was looking for until I found it. In this Ada Palmer has truly achieved something remarkable and I cannot wait to see how the rest of the series unfolds.

Egad!

Wonderful! Possibly the single best series of speculative fiction I've ever read. Utterly different from my other top picks, but definitely jostling for #1.

The change in narrators is jarring, but give yourself time to adjust. Smith brings a nuance to the performance that I don't remember being present in Mays, though both are excellent. #NearFuture #Mindbending #LGBTQIA+ #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes

An extraordinary series, but narration falters.

With all due respect to Mr. Smith, please bring back Jefferson Mays to narrate the final chapter!

hang on until chapter 3!

The narrator shift is jarring and the first chapter is difficult to endure. The story is worth the struggle. By chapter three everything feels alright.

A great follow up to Too Like the Lightning

A different reader was something to get used to but it is done very well.
The story itself reveals many of the mysteries put forth in the first book. You might actually want to reread the first book so can enjoy all background and reveals in Seven Surrenders.
Really looking forward to more books in this series no matter who reads it!

narrator of first book was better

narrator of first book was better, but the story is still good. waiting for book 4!

The plot thickens...

There is no sort of book so intimate, so personally revealing than a speculative fiction like this one. It puts all of a writer's ideas (many of them hopes and fears for the future of our world that you'd otherwise have to pry out of her with alcohol in her neighborhood tavern) on display for readers to sort out and pick apart. I don't know another writer working in the genre who crams more ideas into her stories than Ada Palmer, and this is what I love - the mess of everything brought together into this delicious idea soup.

Fascinating exploration of human nature

This series explores philosophical questions and the nature of humanity in a uniquely interesting way. The world building alone is impressive, but there’s so much more to this utopian/dystopian take on the future.

Narrator is terrible; returning a few minutes in

Too like the lightning was a singularly magnificent book and Mays was a great narrator who brought a very complex story to life. The new one alternates between a slow drone and an odd, affected storybook villain caricature that ruins the story.

Listeners, do not bother buying you’ll just return it.

Recorded Books, it’s worth your time to just remake this one, you’ll sell more in the long run.