What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
There’s nothing I enjoy more than laying back with my eyes closed, listening to a long audio-book, perhaps even a series,.but there simply must be a reason it’s long. Give me content, not hours of back story about characters in chapter 10, that you intend to kill off in Chapter 12,
What could M.R. Forbes have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Don’t spend 18 chapters building characters and in 5 minutes throw all of physics in the trashcan, introduce a new idea of preconceiving by something called “circular time”. Up until the 18th of chapter this audio book was moving so slow that I couldn’t imagine listening to it for the full 9+ hours required to finish it.
What aspect of Jeffrey Kafer’s performance would you have changed?
Not much at all. The poor man was handicapped by the author.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
The level of disappointment felt was Eminence. I enjoy long books and I enjoy long series of good books even more, but the author must be up to the challenge. This was the first book I’ve bought by M.R. Forbes and I might try another in the future, but it will not be a book from this series.