Bob and Nikki: Publisher's Pack 4

Books 8-9

By: Jerry Boyd

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla

Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

Contains books eight and nine of the Bob and Nikki series!

Shaved Ape Key, book eight

“There’s room for you, and there’s room for me. Everybody’s going to Shaved Ape Key.”

What do you do when you can’t give away a space carrier? Learn to be the best captain you can. If one of your most loyal bots has unfinished business, you have to send him out to finish it up, don’t you? Come along as Bob faces his new responsibilities as captain of the B.S. Gene Cernan. And don’t forget to sing along....

Secret Squirrels, book nine

The Squirrels want Bob and the Gene out of their sky. Bob just wants to get along, maybe do a little business. How can he convince them he means no harm? Does he have to show them that they don’t want him for an enemy, just to get their attention?

©2020 Jerry Boyd (P)2020 Podium Audio

Really enjoyed this one

Continues to be a great story and entertaining can’t put it down love the characters keep up the good work!

Excellent Performance, Great Book

There are a LOT of characters to keep track of and that can sometimes make it hard for people bad with names to keep things straight. the author is pretty good at giving you clues which is nice, but the performer always impresses me with his ability to give everyone including, and especially the bots. It breathes life into each character and makes them almost whole. Wish I could see an artist's rendition of the characters in high fidelity. My imagination runs wild, influencing how each bot might look. For instance, in my head, for some reason Sally seems to be shaped very speak like an upside down tear drop with a head and a hover body, even though I have no reason for it she seems to be very matrony like a robot Mary Poppins but in a bot form. Tax on the other hand seems like he would be more boxy, however, and would have a looseness about him that could be mistaken for lose firing parts but really speaks more to his ability.... I don't know where they're coming from but between the writing and narration this is the kind of thing I come up with.

That being said cliffhangers are harsh and while the book ended satisfactorily it's not a great ending. I have the next two in print but will wait. I live the writing style, the fact that everyone 'says' stuff every time in the dialogs is interesting as some writers will leave off who is saying something if there are day only two people speaking to help the flow, since the performer gives so much life to the characters they could almost be omitted. the nice thing is the performer gets into a particular cadence with it and it flies very well. it only gets bad during staccato responses.

The growing complexity

Having listened through this far, I am anxious to see where the story goes. The interest generated has keep me listening while ignoring history books.

Fun listen Good story

The continued adventures of Bob and Nikki is worthy book. wonderful narration, smooth voice

still fun

thoroughly enjoyed this book package. books eight and nine. still going strong, still a lot of fun. world building continues at a much slower pace, as they expand out and explore. looking forward to the next books. recommended.

the story continues

definitely chuckled at it quite a bit! if you liked the earlier books then you won't be disappointed.

Love

I love this cute little series. it's sweet and entertaining and fun all at the same time. the narrator is a hoot. definitely worth a credit.

Losing track of the characters

Another great performance, but there’s so many characters that the reader lost track of the voices a few times.

One thing killed me

I find myself constantly surprised by this series and really dig it. however, with 11hrs left on this one, if I hear "I said" any more. It sounds EXACTLY the same every time. so when you hear it multiple times quickly, it yanks you out of the store. at first I thought it was a new character "Issac" as it's drawn out "eyyyye said" and don't always fit.

otherwise love the book and hope this doesn't occur in the rest of them.

Takes a while to take off

Get through some of set up chapters then it will take off. Has you wondering how it is going to wrap up in the next book.