Antigravity

An Ell Donsaii Story, Book 19

De: Laurence Dahners

Narrado por: Jocelyn Duford

Antigravity (an Ell Donsaii story #19)

This is the nineteenth book in a series of near-future hard-science fiction Thrillers. Their heroine, Ell Donsaii, has a nerve mutation that’s made her a genius and provided her with astonishing athletic abilities. Her intelligence has let her revolutionize our world with a number of inventions, including instantaneous communications and trans-dimensional portals that deliver fuel, water, food, energy, and people all around the solar system.

Antigravity is about a new invention that Ell and her husband, Shan, come up with. It enables the creation of tractor and pressor fields that can enable one to lift off into the sky, the same as antigravity. At first, it doesn’t seem like there will be a lot of uses for it, but as time passes, they keep finding more and more things they can do with it.

Meanwhile, Zage decides he needs help running his company, Gordito. Ell helps him incorporate as Gordito Labs, aiming to “continue cutting-edge bioresearch to the benefit of mankind.”

Ell’s twins, Caii and Raii, continue their painting and caring for their adopted sister. When they can get their parents to take them, they llove touring the famous art of Italy.

But Vesuvius, the volcano that buried Pompeii, is about to erupt again.

Can Ell and her company help?

©2025 Laurence E Dahners (P)2025 Laurence E Dahners

Another fun and intersting one, narrator improved

It's a bit short, like the last one. I've decided that now that we're in the late teens on this series, the books are going to be more installments than a full story arc. I'll take it, I love this world.
The narrator is a big improvement over the last one, though her secondary character voices tend towards the odd. And Jamal with a british accent? I mean, it's an appealing character voice but...doesn't feel like a match. Still on the fence about how she voices the twins too.
Definitely worth your time, especially if you've made it all the way to #19. But if you have, you probably didn't read this before purchasing.

I REALLY struggled with this newest narrator.

Two new narrators in the span of 3 books has been jarring.

I really, really miss Laura Bannister’s narration. I understand that she had some pressing personal issues that she had to see to so she certainly can’t be faulted for taking care of real life problems.

Rebecca Valderama was ok, though not quite on the same level as ms Bannister IMO.

This newest narrator however, was very difficult for me to listen to. She clearly had never even listened to a small sample of the previous books and her reading of the characters was so incredibly far off of the characters personalities that it was jarring for the entirety of the book.

Plus, many times she was over emphasizing and over acting characters and situations that had absolutely no need for it. Characters were often overly excited for no good reason.

I usually really hate having to adjust to a new narrator when really far into a series, but I honestly hope that Mr Dahners chooses to try again.

It was rough.

I love the devopment of the children and the family dynamics.

The best book in the series yet. Most long series tend to get repetitive, but this series just keeps evolving in a way that I enjoy very much.