"Yes, all right, I did listen to the second one."
This is another one which held my attention just long enough to finish. And I never felt truly engaged. I did finish it and I think there's a readership out there for this sort of thing, kind of not-too-deep but maybe just deep enough.
I like the heroic characters and the nature of the struggle itself, though. Too often these days authors seem to be determined to make their characters as flawed and unprincipled as possible and we are supposed to care what happens to them when they get themselves into trouble with the impulsive mistakes tthey keep making.