• A Dubious Peace

  • Destiny's Crucible, Book 7
  • By: Olan Thorensen
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
  • Length: 23 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (914 ratings)

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A Dubious Peace

By: Olan Thorensen
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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A planet’s future is about to take a dramatic turn.

Joseph Colsco, Mark Caldwell, and Heather Chen. Cast away by aliens onto a planet inhabited by humans, transplanted there by a second alien race thousands of years in the past, and for reasons unknown. Each of the three found themselves left naked on beaches scattered across the planet Anyar. Each struggled to survive as strangers amidst humans with technology centuries behind Earth’s. Each lived through years of adjustments, trials, dangers, and new lives beyond anything they could have imagined - or feared. The aliens who left them to fend for themselves wanted them far enough apart so they would never meet, assuming that as individuals they would have no impact on Anyar’s civilizations.

Only now they have come together, and nothing will ever be the same.

©2021 Olan Thorensen (P)2021 Podium Audio

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A Dubious Book

I enjoyed the previous books. This one is terrible. There’s absolutely no plot. The writing is lousy. And every character says “however” in every other sentence — it’s the most stilted dialogue I’ve heard.
Don’t waste your credit and time here.

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Good story progress, but tedious to get through.

I love this universe and it's been great following the characters lives. With that said nothing happened in this book.

The book would be better as 7.5. Everything that happened is more like the background story to the next book. An intermediate book between two major events.

I am looking forward to the next book because I get it. The paramount needed to get to the decision leading into the next world shattering event. What about the AI and it's creators? will they move the bipeds, kill them off, or something else entirely?

More should have happened though.

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Slow moving due to excessive detail

All of the previous books in this series have been action packed and a great story line. This book seems to have gotten bogged down in too much detail concerning steps in developing new products. TMI and not enough action content. Having said that, I would still buy this book to keep up with the series but it will not be a book I read more than once.

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It’s meh.

This is more of a filler book, the story line is expanded but does not move forward. First 18h is just world/character building, kosko keeps explaining his projects but it gets too much and since there is no time skip we barely see any pay off so it just becomes meaningless filler. The last 4h is A+ Quality. I think it’s worth the credit if you are someone who can enjoy or soldier through 18 of meh story.

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But…still…

Easily my least favorite in the series so far but I don’t regret listening and looking forward to the next.

If you are a fan of the series and made it this far… you know you’re gonna get this one too so why are you bothering with reviews :)

Keep them coming!

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A continuation of a fantastic series.

The first Destiny's Crucible book grabbed me from the get-go and upped the stakes on every book. I kept thinking there is no way this guy can pull off another fantastic book. By the 4th book he was becoming my favorite author. My expectations were huge for this book but yet, Thorensen has done it again. I look forward to another trip to Anyar!

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Wanted to love it...

I really enjoyed the previous books. I just couldn’t get into this book. Same topics repeated over and over and the story just did not progress.

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Much Too granular about everything!!

Although some details are needed to explain complicated items, the author here gives to much. After awhile it becomes tedious and boring.

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I liked it, but...

it is slow and overly detailed. I did find myself skipping over parts. It is definitely not for everyone.

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Not worth the time

Too much of the book is rehashing through storylines that were introduced in previous books. I find myself skipping entire chapters due to the slow story progression. The main character is becoming annoying.

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