BY AMIE KAUFMAN & JAY KRISTOFF
NARRATED BY KIM MAI GUEST (Auri), JOHNATHON McCLAIN (Tyler), LINCOLN HOPPE (Finian), DONNABELLA MORTEL(Zila), JONATHON TODD ROSS (Magellan), ERIN SPENCER (Scarlett)& STEVE WEST (Kal)
❐ Overall Rating 3½ | Narration 4❐ Aurora Cycle #2❐ YA Space Fantasy❐ More Adventures while saving the world with Squad 312❐ Billed as...Guardians of the Galaxy meets Six of Crows at an intergalactic military school. They're not the heroes we deserve, they're just the only ones we could find.❐ With all the "bloody, shooty glory" you can get
Talk about a cliffhanger ending...jeez.
I love the Illuminae series, whether you read it (book format) or listen to it. Or both, which I totally recommend by these same two authors...so I couldn't not listen/read to this series. While the characters nor the story itself have gotten under my skin quite like the way the Illuminae series have; I do still like the series so far...I just have a few significant issues.
I struggled at times keeping track of all the characters and what they had going on...and with where the story is going in general, I think it's a combination of both the many characters and all of them having their own POV. It could get confusing, sometimes it switched between them so quickly, I wasn't aware that it even happened and by the time I figured out who it was, it already switched again. Also, who is the Echo?
This could have been solved or at least been improved upon by having full-on full-cast narration. I'll try to explain what I mean by that. Where each character does all the voices or conversation bits of their character instead of having one POV where the different narrators each do a different inflection for the other characters. While I'm sure they try to make them sound like the voice of each character...it isn't really feasible that they're going to pull it off (except for Six of Crows...they came pretty damn close to doing so).
❐ Libby Listen through my Library❐ Length ➯ 15H 17M❐ Plot ➯ 3.7/5
❐ Characters ➯ 5/5
❐ The Feels ➯ 3.5/5
❐ World-Building ➯ 3.5/5
❐ Ending ➯ 3/5
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