Is there anything you would change about this book?
I would have kept the first book whole. As it is, the first book was obviously cut in half to make two 5-hour books. While the story line and performance is quite interesting and I would have certainly paid for the 3rd book simply for closure, I gave it a 3-star overall performance because of the disjointed way the books were sold. I’m sure that the reason this book didn’t take off was nobody wanted to pay a full credit for half a book that is competing with better books in the 8-12 hour duration.
What did you like best about this story?
There wasn’t any one thing I liked best. This series(?) was too predictable and had no closure, even for smaller subplots.
What does Kevin Pierce bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Kevin Pierce is one of my favorite narrator’s and was the only reason I bought the first book. He brings a quality that fills in the blanks while not saying anything extra, simply through the way he reads.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No, too predictable to pay extra to see it on the big-screen.
Any additional comments?
There is no closure to any part of this series in the first or second book. The first book literally ends almost in the middle of a sentence. The second book is not much better, and now, the third book won’t be on Audible at all so I wasted my time and money on two books and still have no closure to any part of the storyline! Fortunately, this is a rarity for Audible.com. I’ve bought more than 400-books and this is the first review I’ve written like this.
William Weber is certainly a talented writer but he shot himself in the foot with this disjointed series. Furthermore, while this series doesn’t have that many reviews yet, alienating the few readers you do have in a system with literally tens of millions of clients is not the smartest thing to do.