Demigod 12

Tinkered Starsong, Book 2

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Michael Lesley

Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Puts the opera back into space opera.

New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger continues her cozy and engaging scifi about the power of art, celebrity, and found family. The second in a completed trilogy narrated by Michael Lesley.

Phex and his pantheon have become demigods and are taking their show on a galaxy-wide tour. Phex is shockingly good at singing but his voice is intoxicating and one wrong note can kill so everyone wants a piece of him - sometimes literally. But the aliens in charge of the divinity are hiding something even more sinister and it’s hurting performers and audiences alike. When his lover is pitted against his pantheon, Phex will have to choose between the family he has found and the god he adores.

Let’s take this show on the road - where the show is divine and the road is through the stars. Be careful, the moment you start listening you may never want to stop, and you just might kill to keep the music alive.

Murderbot meets Eurovision in the second of the Tinkered Starsong trilogy in which the mystery of the Dyesi is finally uncovered.

(This book follows Divinity 36 and precedes Dome 6.)

Also by Carriger set in the same universe

• Crudrat
• The 5th Gender

©2023 Gail Carriger (P)2024 Gail Carriger

Another winner from Carriger.

I am loving this series so much. Can’t wait for Dome 6 to release. If you haven’t read (or listened to) Crudrat I do recommend it for a clearer understanding of Phex and why his reactions/behaviors/ thoughts are the way they are.

Audiobook is better than the Kindle!

I have enjoyed this series and have read the whole trilogy.

This book feels made for the Audio format.

The series is about gods, singers, dancers and aliens. This reader’s voices felt like song.

I find Phex’s journey poignant. This book was beautiful.

love, love, love it

Gail Carriger's Tinkered Starsong Trilogy is pretty much perfect, and Michael Lesley is the perfect narrator. There are so many fascinating things to ponder in this series. Culture and language and diversity and beauty and love and obsession. The final concert in this is magnificent, and brings me to tears every time. Also very cool is the way Lesley does the double-toned speech of Quasilun. I am waiting (with little patience) for Dome 6.

Unique world building, sweet storyline

I ready enjoyed this world, the diverse cultures, disparate mindsets, and the ability to find love and light in different ways between them all.

Really wanted to love this

I have read everything Gail Carriger has written and several got me through very hard times. I don't know how many times I have read and reread her other works - The Finishing School, Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, etc. But I've noticed the last half dozen books across several series are all becoming so formulaic. The strength of her characters was always their uniqueness and a really fabulously smart sense of humour. But the last 5 or 6 books have all been the same - strong, quiet character with an abusive past falls for total brat; painfully long descriptions of emotions; entire casts who are obsessed with each other's emotions, etc.

This series is another centered on this recycled trope, but it crosses from disappointing to unbearable due to the narrator. Every character has a bored, upperclass mumble. It is almost impossible to understand without concentrating on each word. I have to constantly increase volume and rewind when it resolves into whining mumbles. The cyborg is incomprehensible in the audiobook. I am heartbroken to say I won't be reading the 3rd book in the series and as this kind of trope is how the other series are being written, including the San Andreas Shifters and the novellas, I think I'm just done. I really hope for a return to the kind of character development in Custard Protocol, How to Marry a Werewolf, etc., and an end to the repetitive brat/beefcake motif and dozens of pages of analysis of every minute aspect of every emotion.