Star Watch

I alternate between Audible and podcasts during the gym and my commute. Typically I start an Audible story and I get hooked and can't stop listening during every available minute. Not this one. I often took breaks to listen to news podcasts and other material. The story was not engaging and often seemed formulaic and stale. I went to listen to continue listening a couple of days ago but realized it was over. I didn't notice that I'd finished and now, just 3-4 days later, I don't even recall the ending.

I did not like the narrator. To me he came across as imitating some sort of 1950s stereotypical scifi story telling style.

If you liked the Scrap yard ship series then you will like this book because it picks up where that series left off.

The beginning of the book was so bad I almost pulled the plug - the rock people,,, The balance was was better but not great. The narrator can;t do female voices but has a strong talent in everything else.

Compared to previous books this one doesn't quite measure up - disappointing.

I wouldn't recommend this book.

This book should be flagged as part of a previous series. It is NOT a stand alone book or series. The characters have absolutely no depth are introduced as though you should already k ow them and you are left to wallow through a book with none of the characters having any personality. The setting of the story is widely unexplained and none of the arrangement of the different forces even touched on in the least. This book leaves a reader who did not read something previous mired in questions left unanswered. I presume that this story is based on some setup from the scrapyard series? If so this book should never have been sold as a stand alone as it fails in that regard, triumphantly fails no less.

no back story on the characters made it hard to follow. I felt like I knew who is going to win before the story even got into it

Never felt very excited listening. It also felt full of cliches and unimaginative elements, galaxy unstable after the fall of Rome/Krang, special child who is the chosen one, hallucinogenic tea gives special powers, bad guys are basically pure evil, possession, tough warrior dudes who have thick skin and horns actually called rhinos, guy saves girl who has a dark back story.

And the only character development beyond the savior girl is the captain dealing with balancing his ex wife and his gf.

Not a bad book but not one I'd recommend either.

Before you buy this book avoid the error I made. This is not the first book in a series. It is a continuation of another series called scrap yard ship. The title did not make that obvious, and There is little effort for set up. Unless you have read the previous seven books, you will not know what is going on, or who anyone is. I was lost listening to this book, and could only discern that the author is apparently a TMNT fan.

Decent story line with the expected larger than life hero with some fun secondary characters surrounding him. Too much deus ex machina solutions for my taste but I believe many of the solutions were introduced earlier in the series - which I hadn't read yet. Narrator's voice is good, clear and he reads the text VERY well but his over dramatization almost caused me to stop listening part-way thru. All that being said, it was a nice but mindless accompaniment to some long driving hours. I'll at least try one of the earlier books to see if this one was my difficulty at liking it. Fingers crossed.

I think this book would be grand in print as well as audio !! <br/>A great multi-level story !!

When Boomer, a 10 year old girl, came to the rescue !!! Enhancement shield and all !!

I liked every character in this book, except Lord Sha Creame. <br/>Hannah, Jason, Boomer, Dera, Rickett, and the rest of the cast, had an important part in this book !!

I cheered when Lord Sha Creame, got what he deserved !

Took 30 seconds to realize how bad the narration was, another hour to realize how little the narrator had to work with. Another second to delete it.