Awful

10 chapters until the first Xenomorph, you endure a terrible soap opera like story with character 's that you can't take interest in or care because they are so bad. The story only gets better when the Marines show up, oh and then they but heads with a girl named shay? Shy? I don't remember because I hated hearing about her ... They clearly tried to copy Ripley but failed on every level. avoid this one.

10 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Waste of a credit

This the worse audiobook, i have ever listened to! And i have listened to over 100 audiobooks. Why?

1 Story has potential but, poorly written, muddled story telling, confusing plot points

2 The narrator's skill falls short, monotone delivery, unsuitable for an action story, more suited to bedtime tales to send you to sleep. With better narrations, you can follow the story or visualize it as the tale is being told. Not so in this case.

3 The director does not help, all characters sound the same, the whole story is confusingly told, so its hard to follow. You have to concentrate 100% just to grasp what s going on.

4 for Alien completists only

5 its a hard slog, but i wasted a credit, so i am going to hate-finish it to the end.

6 With 7 hours to go the story picks up but the writing and telling is poor. The return of blu, the black goo, colonial marine action ,the story had potential but this tale has no bite.

6 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Brilliant Story - Surprises and Twists

Thanks to AlienTheory for informing me about this book.

Great story, interesting characters, and lots of twists and surprise deaths. Not sure how this book had me rooting for the Xeno's at one point.
The Narrator was great, she really got into the characters and personallities I felt.

recommended book to any Alien fan.

4 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Worst of the worst

Aliens Cold Forge was awesome both in story and narration
but unfortunately the Narrator is terrible here

4 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Listen to Cold Forge instead

I had high hopes for this book after listening to Alex White's previous novel - The Cold Forge. I understand that there is a process in building the story and creating suspense but it takes 3.5 hours before an Alien makes a brief appearance. For me it never really got going. I found it difficult to follow in places, there are a number of interludes dispersed throughout the book and I found that they didn't really add anything to the plot. I did listen to the whole book, just in case it improved but I was left disappointed. It was a slog and a very boring one at that! If you haven't listened to it already the previous book to this - The Cold Forge - I highly recommend that you do.

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Very Bad

generic stereotype characters and a badly written story with by a bad writer with very little knowledge of the alien universe

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Alex White is the best Alien author out there!

The Cold Forge was by far the best Alien novel I've listened to and this follow up is of the same standard. Highly recommended within the the Alien series.

Not essential to listen to Cold Forge first, but I was glad that I had, as this serves as a loose sequel. Alex White's writing is excellent, with well fleshed out characters, especially villains you'll love to hate!

Great performance by Shiromi Arserio too!

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Complex story line, difficult to follow

After listening to the amazing Cold Forge (CF), which featured a fantastic narrator, I had very high hopes for Charybdis (C). I was also compelled to listen to C after hearing Alex White's interview on Alien Theory - far and away the very best alien universe (and other) channel I have come across. I absolutely appreciated that White wanted to explore different elements with C, wanted to keep the narrative fresh and exciting and it is... in places. But ultimately from the concept of Charybdis itself, which felt hard to picture in detail to the convoluted plot for which the necessary suspension of disbelief became increasingly untenable; there was just too much going on. As such I have to say it fell several notches below CF.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

You need to stick with it

A lot of reviews seem to dislike the narrator and have not even finished the book as a result! Those people have missed out. The attempt at accents early on is a bit cringe sometimes, but executed reasonably well and vastly improves when the Colonial Marines join the fray. Then you are treated to an action packed story that can only rivaled by Aliens in my opinion. Loved it!

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Took me a few attempts

I didn't take to this book as quickly as I have with previous entries in the Alien universe. It actually took me a few attempts before it hooked me. I wasn't sure where the author was going with the 'Muslim' commentary, or how some characters leant into their bigotry a little too hard. But, it was worth the read. And, frankly, I was pretty surprised by who survives in the end. Felt like a very unique approach to storytelling.