Terminal Alliance

Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse Series, Book 1

De: Jim C. Hines

Narrado por: Rebecca Mitchell

The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know - your standard apocalypse.

The Krakau's first impulse was to turn around and go home. Their second impulse was to try to fix us. Now, a century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they're no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly.

Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a Lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she's in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact.

Escaping the attacking aliens - not to mention her shambling crewmates - is only the beginning. Sure, Mops and her team of space janitors and plumbers can clean the ship as well as anyone, but flying the damn thing is another matter. As they struggle to keep the Pufferfish functioning and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance....

©2017 Jim C. Hines (P)2017 Tantor

This book, and it's sequel - great space opera

Terminal alliance and the sequel, Terminal Uprising, are great Science fiction, and I cannot recommend them more. My life is consumed by a desperate search for good books, particularly Science Fiction. The story was so unexpected, starting off with a janitorial crew on a starship, but moving into a wonderfully drawn galactic civilization and the conflicts that have arisen. Humans are second class citizens and that is how it starts. The characters, both human and alien are written with wit and sympathy. It is funny in parts but as the plot unfolds becomes moving and deeply emotional. The book reminded me of the greats from the golden age of Science Fiction. I often buy the Audible version as well as the written book because I can then switch back and forth between them. Rebecca Mitchell was the narrator and she did a great job voicing the plot and characters. They are Space Opera and a whole lot more. I highly recommend them in both forms and hope Jim Hines will write many more books in this genre

creative story but falls flat due to narrator

story in this book is interesting but a lot of the jokes fall flat because a narrator sounds like an AI computer. trying to read a story. hopefully follow-on books have a different narrator

Narrator drags this book down!

While the story plot is not bad, the character development is diminished by the Audio Reader. She has a droning inflection and lack of energizing differentiated character emotives in her voice. Thus, my mind drifted off and I missed a lot of meat of book in my daze. I am going to have to pay more attention to book audio samples to get a prior feel of the Narrator before spending money on a purchase again.

Fun and Funny Scifi Adventure!

I have thoroughly enjoyed the first installment of the "Janitors of the Post Apocalypse" series! The entire concept is absolutely hilarious and the wordlbuilding is 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' level of weird and fantastic. The performance is really good during the dramatic moments and the actor does great with a variety of different voices, but I did feel some of the humor fell a little flat. Definitely not a dealbreaker for me, but I may read the book as well to get the full, humorous effect.

Overall, looking forward to the next book!

Good story, atrocious narrator.

The story starts out very dry but if you hang in there it picks up. Character development is very slow making it difficult to feel for the characters. Some or all of this is due to the terrible narration. It sounds as if the narration was done by AI. The inflections are all wrong. I really hate AI narrations because of it. I'd rather shove an ice pick in my ears rather than listen to AI narration. In light of this, the story is probably better than what I listened to. I'm hoping that a different narrator is used in subsequent books.