Triana Moore, Space Janitor

De: Julia Huni

Narrado por: Kaitlin Bellamy, Rachel Music

Cleaning a space station is easy.

Staying under the radar? Priceless.

Triana Moore programs the robots that clean the glitzy Station Kelly Kornienko. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of the station is her number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate."

But when one of her bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the window. Or the airlock, since the windows on SK2 don't open.

Come along on a crazy ride through SK2 and across the galaxy with Triana Moore, Space Janitor.

This book contains the complete Space Janitor series including:

• The Vacuum of Space
• The Dust of Kaku
• The Trouble with Tinsel
• Glitter in the Stars
• Sweeping S'Ride
• and the prequel, Orbital Operations.

Find out what all your friends are laughing about!

©2018 Julia Huni (P)2020 Julia Huni

Great world building!

I really enjoyed this series. Lots of great world building and interesting characters. I enjoyed the scifi space mysteries! There was a narrator switch in the middle I could do without and some jumping around in pronunciation but otherwise the performances were good too.

Fun enjoyable story!

Grabbed this title on a recommendation that popped up and am so glad I did. Definitely recommend a listen if you are interested in something light and fun. Would consider it a space fiction with some good mysteries.

Triana Moore - Trouble Magnet

Let me start right off by saying I enjoyed all of the stories very much. There were some great "easter eggs" to other stories and pop culture that made me smile a lot. Triana Moore is a pretty typical trouble magnet for these types of stories, and it makes for some fun adventures. I only had a couple of minor issues.

1. They switch narrators after two books and it took a while to get comfortable with the new narrator's accents for each character and such. Not a deal breaker, but worth mentioning

2. Moore and Oneal spent WAAAY to long playing the "will they or won't they" game. I will avoid spoilers by not going into specifics. I will just leave it at "to long".

Beyond those two minor issues, everything else worked. I would certainly love to revisit Triana and Ty if Julia Huni ever writes another entry.

Suggest For younger Readers 11-17

Character voices came across as as teenagers,
With personality and lack of formal training issues.

Loved Triana and her weird and twisted life

I love the main character, and grew to love many of the secondary characters. Triana and I have a lot in common... "Gym? No."
I probably should have broken this down into two or three separate listens. Hearing the four or five stories in a row it did get a little tiresome. Also, the quality of the recording on the last little "Prequel" was poor.
However, if you like your sci-fi, then spend a credit and enjoy this hidden gem.
I look forward to checking to see what else Julia Huni has written, and have already recommended this to some book reading friends.

A good mix of the usual and the unusual

This almost entirely subjective, but here goes... What I mean with my title is that while the basic framework is not exactly unique, how Julia Huni fills in the framework is. The main character has an inexplicable tendency to fall into convoluted situations, and has to use her wits, available resources and friends to get out, which of course, she always does. Along the way the character introduction and development feels natural.

I'd bought the first two books a year or so ago and thought they were great. I didn't get any more until I got this book. If you go into the third book expecting Kaitlin Bellamy hearing Rachel Music may seem distracting, but don't give up. Kaitlin and Rachel are quite different, and they both did a fantastic job bringing the characters to life in their own style. Rachel in particular is an example of narrators who use enough accent to both get the feeling that the character really has that accent, but not enough make to clearly understand the dialog an issue. She seemed to be getting into a groove (not rut!) with each book. The later books had the sort of feel that books read by the author have. Maybe Julia wrote more for Rachel's style. Maybe Rachel was having fun. Either way, it's a fun series. A bit of action, a bit of mystery, a lot of nerdy humor, and no suspension of disbelief is required.

Bad decisions by a so called smart protagonist

I like the style, I like the setting, the background works, but the really bad decisions the protagonist has to make to keep to story moving is just enough for me to go, “there are better stories out there to spend my time reading”

A bit flawed....

Technical/Performance: The two smaller stories (Tinsel and the prequel) both have an audio artifact cutting off the beginnings and ends of sentences, Wonky compressor? Whatever it is, I don't need to be distracted by that when I'm trying to sink into a story. The change in narrator after book two, usually a rough edge, was actually a slight improvement.

Story: So very many convenient outcomes! Really muddled situation regarding what started out as competent cost-is-no-object security around the protagonist. Now let's let her wander around! Let's use her as bait! Let's totally bet a bunch of lives on our ability to infiltrate a supervillain lair when we could cut bait and call in an air strike! It worked! Let's do it again next book!

Triana: less mature, less believable as a character, and more impulsive/petulant with time. Throws herself into danger just to...you know...make the plot move. So kicky! (See everyone else's review for discussion of tortured and wooden romance).

Side kvetch: It's interesting that the historical space figures and scions in the far future are almost all American. I find it distracting to exclusively hear Bezos/Zuckerberg/things named after various known US/USSR astronauts. Like...no other culture bailed out of Earth? And the current billionaires stayed on top? (Musk excepted, likely due to publication date) And there's not intervening Heroes of the Exodus or Hallowed Inventors of Magic Space Tech for which to name things? Hollywood levels (or less) of Asian representation in space? All very distracting to me.

another space dumbo mc

The first book was ok; the mc was portrayed as a wide-eyed innocent with some station knowledge and computer skills.

In the second book, she becomes a complete idiot. She disregards all advice, she fails to give pertinent information when reporting her situation. And her once-cute banter becomes tiresome as this new, stupid child persona takes over.

It's frustrating that authors continue demean women by portraying them as weak and incompetent.

Not engaging at all.

Shallow. No character depth at all. This buck had potential and just went no where. I’m returning it