The Crooked God Machine

De: Autumn Christian

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Black Planet is an oppressive world terrorized by a masked god. Charles is a young idealist struggling to keep his family from falling apart amidst daily violence and chaos. When Charles falls in love with the enigmatic Leda, she gives him hope for an existence outside of the masked god's regime. After Leda disappears one night, Charles leaves his small town to search for her. Along the way he uncovers the origin of the Black Planet, and confronts the god that would destroy all life in pursuit of a perfect and unchanging paradise. The Crooked God Machine is a dystopian horror about a broken family and a broken world. Compared to the work of David Lynch, H.R Giger, and Philip K. Dick, it's at once darkly romantic, violent, and uncomfortably familiar.

Dystopian AF—loved it

I can only review based on what I heard, which was an astonishingly dark and bleak description of life on a planet on the edge of apocalypse. The AI narration was better than I expected but it lacked the obvious emotion and gravitas that some of the dialogue needed.

There are also many points where you can tell the story lacked the proper editing. Even with that, the raw talent in Autumn Christian’s writing oozes off the page (headphones?). Highly recommend for those who are into Lovectaftian/dystopian/bleak introspection of the human condition.

Ruined by Ai

This Review has nothing to day about the story itself, it seemed interesting, my problem is with the use of Ai in place of a voice actor, and this audiobook was the first and only time I decided to give Ai a chance.

Soulless, emotionless and genuinely hard to follow along with the story due to how unnatural the reading was. I had to give up listening.

And above all else, just boring. No performance, nothing

Ai sucks, Butlerian Jihad when?