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Ironclads

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.

Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong.

Now Regan and his men, ill-equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad killer out there? And how are common soldiers, lacking the protection afforded the rich, supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

A stand-alone audiobook by the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.

©2017 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd

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Pretty good, narrator’s a little dodgy

I like the story of this pretty well. It moves fast, the concept is interesting, and it recognizes how terrifying Finns are. The narrator does okay, but he’s British and his American accent is pretty ropey. He does okay with the main character’s voice, but has trouble differentiating the other characters. Because of how the story’s structured this doesn’t matter as much as it might in another book.

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Solid Story, Terrible Narration

Not Tchaikovsky’s best story, but still very worth reading - keyword READING.

The narration is distractingly awful.

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Narrator swings and misses

This was a great, punchy sci-fi story that was difficult to listen to because of the awkward drawl and pacing Peter Noble chose for the POV character. It sounded like a southern accent from someone who never heard a southerner speak before. If the story wasn’t so engaging, his narrative choice would have turned this into a DNF from me.

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rushed and meh

the story feels like its trying to say something but the narrator continually takes a middle ground so it feels like very bland social commentary.

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Couldn't get past horrible accents

The story is a somewhat formulaic post-corporate takeover dystopia with tough sergeant and rough commando followers on a mission with added robots. All very fine, but the 1st person narrating sergeant has a weird exaggerated regional American accent from no region anywhere. One hour of gritting my teeth and I just can't take it anymore. I think I could read the book. If the narrator was just average or a little below average I'd be OK. This guy is special. Off to find something else to listen to. Cheers.

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Really - Adrian Tchaikovsky?

I love everything by Adrian Tchaikovsky, but Ironclads was difficult to get through. There were some good parts and decent concepts but it fell short of expectation.

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the worst voice acting/reading I've heard yet.

Title pretty much says it all. As short as this title is i won't finish it. I couldn't get more than an hour or so in before I was do annoyed by the reader that I had to stop. Story might actually be great I didn't get far enough in to tell either way, but I'll never know unless I read the book myself.

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