This book has led me to listen go/read most of Neal Ashers novels. Its not too distracting as it quickly becomes apparent, but still could do with changing. The only real failure - as noted by other listeners - is the odd choice of the editor to not leave audible gaps when the character viewpoints change.
Sniper in particular is very well characterised. The choice of rural english accents may seem odd to american listeners but works very well. The reader is also excellent, his wide range of voices is veery good. This was my first Neal Asher story the authors style is very good, an interesting mix of science fiction, action adventure, space opera, humour, and horror. If you like Card's book "Treason" or Harry Harrison's "West of Eden" or Koontz "Frankenstein" or "Moby Dick" you should like this book.Ī good story and reader spacing needs edit
The zombie is actual called a reif, but they had to say reif about fifty times before I understood what he was saying. The narrator, who is following how the book is written, uses British accents, which combined with the changing scenes made it hard to follow. NA changes from one scene to another and then back again very quickly and often the scenes he is switching to have similar action going on, so I often got confused on what characters I was following.
As far as the production and the narrator, I was very disappointed. I will be reading more of Asher's books, I just hope he shortens them a little. Toward the end I was getting worn out and was ready for the book to finish. At the beginning of the book I was extremely excited and really thought I had found a new fantastic author. The action is constant and Asher's imagination is fantastic. The book has leeches, sentient AI's, Supermen, a hive mind, a living head, a creature that acts as a sail for ships, rhinoworms, humans who are called blanks because they are mindless slaves to lobster like aliens called Pradors, a woman who lives in another woman's body, etc etc. One of the main characters is a Zombie, he has been dead for 700 years. The leeches fall from trees, swim in the ocean and can be as small as a bat or as large as a whale. They become immortal after one of the many leeches that inhabit the world bites them. The native humans, called hoopers, are almost immortal. Almost every creature in the sea is deadly.
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