Time Salvager

De: Wesley Chu

Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins

Time Salvager: a fast-paced time travel adventure from Wesley Chu, the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao.

Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.

James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking points, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.

On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen's highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.

©2015 Wesley Chu (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

excellent story well narrated

This was a good story with likeable characters and a novel story line. It wasn't too predictable and it wasn't too unbelievable. Lots of room for a sequel and I hope we'll see one, because we all want to see Valta (?hard to tell spelling in an audiobook) get their comeuppance.

Great Book!

If you could sum up Time Salvager in three words, what would they be?

Exciting, Mysterious, Awesome.

What did you like best about this story?

How the Author made Time Travel realistic, as if it could be possible someday.

Which scene was your favorite?

I enjoyed when James risked even more by going back in time to get The Mother of Time so that he could bring her to the present to help with a cure for planet earth.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When James brought back Elise. I was not excepting him to do this and the moments leading up to it really had me on my feet. I actually was listening to it to and from work and when I got to this part I sat in my driveway listening to it when I got home from work!!

Any additional comments?

Amazing story, amazing book and I hope to enjoy more book by this Author!!!!!!!

Great book

The content of the book and the flow of the story was very good. My only problem was the narration, I had a real hard time with his voice. It almost caused me to stop listening

well read worth listening to

good story but ending is very sudden and is left open for a possible second book?

Great plot

Loved the plot setup and storyline but this book was a bit too fantastical for my taste. Think it would have been better executed if time travel was the only major technological advancement the main character had. Everything surrounding “bands” became a bit cheesy in my opinion. Regardless, the plot and characters were interesting so I still devoured the book!

Good book, but feels like Captain Kirk reads it

Really, the story is good and all, but the performance was irritating. Stops and commas everywhere, and you could hear when a recording session just started from the way he narrated normally, and then started to get caught up in the book and got back on his Shatner ways. A live example of how a performance turns a good book into mediocre.

What's up with the narrator?

Good sci-fi story. The narrator is awful. Shattner-esque. Constantly pausing between the words of a sentence or dialogue. Very distracting.

good story, annoying narrator

narrator's excessively clear enunciation of every word and constant dramatic tone is unnatural and annoying.

Interesting premise. So So execution

There are times in the story where the main character's emotional issues with his past are played up to a degree that had me close to dropping this book and looking for another. While the issues raised are needed to explain the characters motivations in the story arc, they are over emphasized to the point of distracting from the story.

Mr. Collins has one major draw back as a narrator in my opinion. He tries to use his voice to heighten the drama or emotional content of scene, but is seems forced and distracts instead of heightening. I did not hear as much of it in this book as in others he has done, but it is still there.

Interesting concept

The story was alright. Sort of left itself up in the air. I can see there are going to be others behind it.