
Retribution Falls
Tales of the Ketty Jay, Book 1
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Narrado por:
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Rupert Degas
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De:
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Chris Wooding
A Tale of the Ketty Jay. Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships, and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes wrong, and the freighter explodes.
Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance anymore - he's public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his tail and contractors hired to take him down. But Frey knows something they don't. That freighter was rigged to blow, and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he wants to prove it, he's going to have to catch the real culprit. He must face liars and lovers, dogfights and gunfights, Dukes and daemons. It's going to take all his criminal talents to prove he's not the criminal they think he is.
Rupert Degas has narrated over 100 audiobooks. He has recorded a diverse range of authors, from Andy McNab, James Patterson, Wilbur Smith, and Chris Ryan to children's authors such as Derek Landy, Darren Shan, Jamie Rix, and Philip Pullman. He has narrated books by Patrick Rothfuss, Haruki Murakami, Mervyn Peake, Rose Tremain, and Cormac McCarthy as well as recording classics from Kafka, Conan Doyle, Lovecraft, and Wilde. Rupert has lent his voice to numerous cartoons, including Mr Bean, Robotboy, Gumball, Thomas & Friends, and Bob the Builder and has performed in over 50 radio productions for BBC Radio 4, including The Brightonomicon and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He spent 18 months in the West End performing in Stones in his Pockets and was in the original London cast of the smash-hit comedy The 39 Steps. Produced by Peter Rinne.
2010, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Short-listed
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Audible, where are books 2-4?!
Firefly meets Steampunk perfection. Why no book2?
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A very entertaining listen! Great narration, an interesting world, and a charming cast of characters. Very well balanced, nice mix of action and character moments, very digestible worldbuilding. Really solid start to the series. I hope audible gets the next book, but this book does stand on it's own as well.A Great Start!
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Great narrator
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Once you have a handle on who everyone is, the story clicks and it becomes a lot of fun. Each person of the crew is unique in some way and they all have quirks that make them stand out. They all feel fully realized and three dimensional. The captain starts off as a bit of a loser, on a fast path to a lonely death but by the end of the book he develops into a character you want to cheer for.
Degas did an absolutely masterful job with the narration. Each character he voiced became it’s own separate entity and I never had to wonder, “wait, who is this, again?” When you have such a diverse cast of likable misfits and thieves, you need a strong narrator and Degas hit it out if the park.
If you like steampunk this is a great foray into the genre. If you’re new to steampunk, this is a great introduction.
Slow start, solid finish, great narration.
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My complaint is in the narration. I felt like the choice to give Frey an American accent made no sense. Especially when he regularly uses English slang like "bullocks" and "bloody hell". Otherwise I'd say that Rupert Degas did a great job of giving the all the characters their own voices.
Fantastic story of captain and crew
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epic adventure, story telling and narration
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With the gruff voices, at least while driving!
As a driver
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Excellent!
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We have an interesting steampunk world - aircraft are buoyed by lighter than air gases, allowing for massive ships that can both hover and move with speed. We also see the rudiments of a low to mid power magic system, and political conspiracy.
There are several viewpoint characters on the crew, and all of them change over the course of the book as their relationships grow. Frey in particular has a multiple-book character story arc that leads him from being a very selfish man to one with growing if still crabbed empathy and maturity - despite having an intense need for adventure and thrills, a history of caring neither about his crews, nor the women he sleeps with.
His is actually a rather good story arc, if you don't toss the book aside in protest under the mistaken impression that the author advocates that behavior.
And I do I consider Chris Wooding a competent author, a competent writer who did good work in this series. He's given us characters with motivations and growth, interesting world building, action scenes and reasons for curiosity about what's next. His prose is descriptive without being flowery or drowning in details, and noticeably better than that of a couple of other writers whose works I tried this month.
This series is well written and well imagined, and is joining several others in my library. I consider this a solid 2nd tier steampunk fantasy (A- or B+, 4 or 4.5 stars), and I recommend it as worth a try.
Rather Good!
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why did it take me so long to find this guy
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