Citadel: Omnibus: The Complete Citadel Trilogy

By: Kevin Tumlinson

Narrated by: Bryant Sullivan

Length: 27 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Citadel: Omnibus is the fully collected Citadel Trilogy, bound together in one volume for the first time!

More than a century ago, Earth was suffering under the weight of overpopulation and ever-dwindling natural resources. Humanity’s best and brightest were commissioned to create a means for humanity to escape the overcrowding of Earth, and to branch out and live among the stars. Their efforts were hampered by the seeming impossibility of faster-than-light travel, until a team of researchers discovers an usual answer they call “the Lightrail”.

On the eve of Earth’s first successful jaunt to the stars, however, a powerful organization called Earth First commits a horrible act of terrorism, setting the program back by decades. A single figure, "the Destroyer of Worlds”, now stands among the most villainous men in history.

A century later, humanity is recovering from a 50-year war with the Esool, a plant-like race that has its own version of the lightrail. Territorial battles raged after miscommunications and fear took their toll, leaving both sides compromised and weakened, with no choice but to come to peace.

Onboard the Citadel colony vessel, humanity and Esool are embarking on their first journey of peaceful joint colonization, when history tragically repeats itself. An Earth First saboteur has put the vessel on a crash course with the wrong world, and the results of this errant journey could cost humanity all it has gained.

A group of castaways on a world far from home are all that stand between humanity, the Esool, and the end of faster-than-light travel. And, as the Destroyer of Worlds reawakens in the universe, all hope may be lost.

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worst narration ever.

Narrator delivery ranges between a grumble and a whisper. After 6 chapters, I am sorry, but my brain will fry to get through 56 hours of mumbling, monotone grumbling whispers no matter how good the storyline

WOW!!

I heard someone write they made it to chapter 6. I made it to the crash. this narrator is, just, bad. I listened to his drone dead voice and sent the book back after the crash. his voice with earbudds in make you wanna jump off a building taking him with you. if its this easy , if he can do it, maybe there's hope hor me to become a narrator.

Not a bad book, but there's some minor annoyances.

Admittedly, I'm not quite finished. I'm at chapter 16 of book two but that's enough for the types of reviews I leave.

I've been enjoying the story overall. it has a bit of everything. Romance, comedy, drama, suspense. You name it, it's probably there. But there's problems in the details at times.

In the early chapters of the first book, the author somewhat throws science off of a cliff in favor of making things a bit more dramatic. While I noticed it, I didn't really mind as it was only a couple minor things that most people who aren't science buffs aren't likely to notice.

Book two was a slightly different story. While I wasn't noticing much for bad science this time around, there was a huge technical error. At one point in chapter 12 the author is describing a process and equates it to being similar to a computers ROM (Read Only Memory). The problem is that both the process being described, and the description given to explain what ROM is, are a textbook explanation for RAM (Random Access Memory). RAM is one of those things that most people these days are familiar with, especially the intended audience of this book. So to get that wrong is pretty bad.

The narrator isn't bad, but he speaks extremely slowly, to the point of being mind numbing. To be fair, when he's giving character lines he's fine. It's just when he's giving third person narration that it can get really boring. I've found that speeding the audio up to 1.15x really helps in this area.

In book two you also notice some bad editing at times. A portion of a line being played twice here, an abrupt cut-off there

So far I'd recommend this audiobook. It's at least something decent to listen to on a long drive

The narration of this book was painful

The incessant whispering of the narrator Was unbearable. And the character name Mitch was an absolute buzz kill. He was a tough guy wannabe that constantly complained and there was no Pleasing him.

Awesome Performance!

Loving the story and performance! Such great range in the characters. It’s clear a lot of care went into this recording.