Taran Hunt
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Audio Narration
The narrator is Rory Alexander. I liked his narration. He was easy to listen to, with a pleasant English accent and good distinction between characters, not that there were many characters he had to narrate in the first place. There are several characters, but only three that get much page time.
Story
The story focuses on Sean, one of two survivors from his home of Kystrom, who apparently has a tendency to get himself in trouble. He ends up in prison, and is coerced into going with a team of other convicts to an enormous derelict ship about to be destroyed by a supernova. His objective is to retrieve data believed to be on it that holds clues to immortality. Naturally this data is in high demand, so there’s some competition and things quickly go awry. I didn’t find this creepy, but there’s a lot of creeping around, sometimes in the dark, trying to avoid getting attacked by enemies, so it might seem creepy for some.
This is a simple, straight-forward story. There are some mysteries about what happened on the ship, and about the motives of the different factions, but I thought things were telegraphed pretty obviously and I predicted most key plot twists well before they happened. I can’t necessarily think of anything else I’ve read that was very similar to this, and yet it felt familiar anyway. It had a lot of familiar tropes, I guess. They were things I enjoyed though, and I think my tolerance for simpler stories is higher in the audiobook format.
I liked the characters and would like to spend more time with them. I’m a sucker for the trope where
The main plot of this book is resolved by the end, but there are several open threads left hanging and a “huh?” moment near the end that was clearly intended to try to hook people into reading the next book. I’ll wait until the series is complete before revisiting it.… (mehr)