The Hyperspace Trap

Publisher's Summary

Christopher G. Nuttall’s novel of human fear and survival, set in the thrilling world of his Angel in the Whirlwind series.

A year after the Commonwealth won the war with the Theocracy, the interstellar cruise liner Supreme is on its maiden voyage, carrying a host of aristocrats thrilled to be sharing in a wondrous adventure among the stars. The passengers include the owner and his daughters, Angela and Nancy. Growing up with all the luxuries in the world, neither sister has ever known true struggle, but that all changes when a collision with a pirate ship leaves the cruiser powerless and becalmed in hyperspace. And they’re not alone.

Now, the mysterious force that’s living on this floating graveyard is coming for Supreme’s crew and passengers. As madness starts to tear at their minds, they must fight to survive in a strange alien realm.

And there’s no way out...

©2018 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

FILLER JUNK

Would you try another book from Christopher G. Nuttall and/or Jennifer Jelsema?

Only because most of the previous books have been pretty good, unlike this one

What could Christopher G. Nuttall have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Make it a stand alone book or new series. This seemed like a mix of ideas tossed into a book.

Would you be willing to try another one of Jennifer Jelsema’s performances?

I really can't say because the book was so off series.

Any additional comments?

Shortly after the book starts there is a warning that basically this book does not belong in the series or at the very least is so far out of the time line that it is crazy.
There are brief mentions of the war the series is/was about.
I'm asking for a refund. Maybe the book would have been OK if I had not expected it to be logically next in the series, this is probably should have been book 55, not 5.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Boring

I couldn't finish it. Was simply too boring. Sorry for the bad review. Sleep inducing.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Good story, annoying narrator.

This narrator has trouble with hard consonants. Here are a few examples: Didn't becomes dint, rotten is ra-enn, couldn't is coont, important is imporant. Thank goodness for Kindle where you can read the book in Standard English.

9 of 15 people found this review helpful

Really a surprise

This is the type of excellent book once comes to expect from Christopher G. Nuttall. It revolves around a star liner that is on it's maiden voyage with a manifest of high ranking passengers which include the head of the firm that owns the liner. The interplay of characters is outstanding and you can almost feel the excitement and fear as each one goes through the situations that happen on the cruise.

The narration is also outstanding.

I do hope that there will be more books in this series as I have enjoyed all of the books to date.

Not a good match for Angel in the Whirlwind 1-4

I got this tile because it was advertised as number 5 in the Angel in the Whirlwind series. I enjoyed the first 4 with the antics of Kat Falcone and gang. The beginning of the book warned me that it did not include Kat Falcone so I was ready for that change, but the story line and characters did not have the same flow or appeal. The story line did not draw me in. I only continued to listen to see if there was a good tie in to the rest of the series... or something of value to me that I was missing in the first part of the book.

Slow start

Last 4hours got me hooked, some items didn’t make sense, but good book overall. More Kat Falcone please.

A nice adventure

As a side story to the Angel In The Whirlwind series it was an interesting interlude. Maybe a little slow, at first, but things got moving about half way through. Character development was nicely done and a realistic portrayal of the disparity between the haves and have nots was skillfully accomplished. It was good to see some of the former group begin to come to terms with the reality of survival. Would have been nice to find out just where to survivors ended up....perhaps meat for another story. Over all a good tale.

Voice acting diction

I normally am not fussy regarding diction in voice acting and this is the first review where I have ever given negative feedback.

Typically I love it when a voice actor can do different voices and different accents. That being said Ms Jelsema hit a pet peeve of mine. Dropping middle consonants in words. Specifically Ts and Ds

Didn't = Dint
Certain = Cer-in
Important = Impor-in
Wouldn't = woont
Couldn't = coont

and so on.

Had it been only in the dialog I could have dismissed it as accent or dialect but it was also in the narration. It really took away from the story for me as I winced sentence after sentence when it occurred.

Other than that Ms Jelsema's performance was fine. This is something she should work on as a professional. It would be OK to adopt such a manner of pronunciation if the material called for it but it should not be her baseline.

It will make me think twice about choosing books where she is the performer.

Move along...Nothing to see here

This entire story could have been wrapped up in about 5 pages. The author obviously wanted to cash in some more on his previous work. The story was built on two very weak foundations:
1. a whiny rich girl who has done nothing with her life
2. An alien race that acts with no apparent purpose and is not resolved
Much of the story was dependent on a silly decision of the captain to send ships stewards to apprehend mutineers and a serial killer (the killer had absolutely no reason to be in the tory other than to add several pages of text). guess how that worked out?
The evil aliens then got their revenge by sending the ship to a habitable planet???

Awful

I don't like horror stories, and this is a horror story.

Boring beginning, boring middle, boring climax and depressing end.

I suppose if you like horror and stories where everyone dies, you might think differently but I expected a space adventure so...

fresh, exciting, beautifully read.

Definitely one of the best Sci-Fi Audibles I heard. Really original and compelling.
Superbly narrated too!

0 of 1 people found this review helpful