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Remnants of the Future #2
Altered Destiny
Outclassed. Outgunned. Overwhelmed. The Consortium is being eradicated.
Kyren knows it's his fault. By stopping the deathbots they have altered the timeline, and now the Crevak pirates have a mysterious new benefactor. One who has given them the weapons to overcome the Consortium, the only force in civilized space capable of holding back the pirates.
Can they find the meaning of the Oracle's new vision before it is too late?
Can they survive a precog hit squad, the wicked space pirates, and an infestation of alien parasites long enough to repair their altered destiny?
Kyren knows it's his fault. By stopping the deathbots they have altered the timeline, and now the Crevak pirates have a mysterious new benefactor. One who has given them the weapons to overcome the Consortium, the only force in civilized space capable of holding back the pirates.
Can they find the meaning of the Oracle's new vision before it is too late?
Can they survive a precog hit squad, the wicked space pirates, and an infestation of alien parasites long enough to repair their altered destiny?
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 11, 2019
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August 13, 2019
Never a dull moment, the action just keeps coming in this book. With this second book in the series, we get more battles, more gadgets, and some more wild aliens. But I was happy that our characters got to slow down on occasion so that we could get some more info into their personal lives/motives. I felt more of a connection to the characters than I did in the first book. I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.
And once again, the narration by Ryan Kennard Burke was very well done.
And once again, the narration by Ryan Kennard Burke was very well done.
November 9, 2020
Altered Destiny is the sequel to the science fiction space opera Unexpected Destiny, written by Trevor Ames Gregg. Kyren and his misfits, now having saved the galaxy using a time bomb, finds themselves in a different timeline where a new danger is yet again threatening the entire universe.
The writing style and the narration was exactly the same as with the previous book, thus my general comments and critiques are essentially the same as for the first book in the trilogy, and I refer to my review of the first book which gives a deeper insight into the shortcomings and positives. The following sections will assume you’ve read/listened to the first book and read my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Despite the main characters dying from their time bomb in the first book, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that they somehow made it out of it alive. It turns out that the time bomb has altered their timeline, and things are not exactly as they remember it. It was a nice twist, which shook up the story. Unfortunately, as it was very much written in the same style as the prequel, which I didn’t like very much. While the writing per se is fine, especially the action and dialogs works well, there’s too big a lack of substance. The first book was quite short for what it was trying to achieve, and as mentioned in my previous review, it really could have used more time to develop its characters. As the sequel is 33% longer, I had hoped that it would take its time to add some flesh, but that turned out not to be the case. Characters did go from paper thin, to cardboard thin, but overall their only desires in life were to stay alive and save the world. Why they wanted to save the world, I do not know, but I just guess they felt like it? On top of that, they act and speak like 21st century teenagers, with their slang and swearing coming straight out of an MTV show, and that didn’t suit the book at all. Similarly, I felt that descriptions of scenes and aliens were too superficial, and we again got a lot of aliens that look like things on Earth (Cat, lizard, bear, saurian, reptile, demon, crocodile, lobster, cat, dog, bear, pitbull, insect, were the ones I noticed this time around!), which is really lazy writing as previously mentioned. And really, do people in the far future, or in a galaxy far far away, really say things like “His mouth smelled like boiled anus”, “He had the skin the color of baby poop” or “Who let the dogs out”? It is good to let your characters talk like real life characters, but if you put them somewhere not on Earth, please don’t let them speak like they are actually there in our contemporary time.
Since this book was longer, I got a better idea of its writing, and to me it felt as if I was reading an action movie script. There’s non-stop action, which is fine, but when the author completely forgets that the reader does not have the visual concept that the he has, and he lets the story move way too fast, it just doesn’t work. I had a hard time following the plot at times, since there’s almost no descriptive scene transitions, and we don’t get much details of the settings. Add the main characters with no desires in life other than the above, and you have a very unfocused outcome for the reader. I just didn’t care for the characters, and the story was too shallow.
There’s a new bad guy, and he’s exactly the same as the last bad guy - We know essentially nothing about him, and he’s just there to give our heroes a hard time. Same goes for all the other baddies they encounter, most of them are evil just because.
We have plenty of science fiction speak, which is not something that bothers me, but there was way too many places where “one character explains generic scifi term to another character”. In other cases the author invents extreme bling bling future technology, and that was okay, except that the plot relied way too much on terms and explanations which were obviously invented on the spot to make it sound epic. Coupled with tons of time traveling shennanigans, and you end up with a reader that is lost.
While I am sure that the author has envisioned something big, and despite the above comments, I do feel that there’s a good and epic science fiction story hidden somewhere. But when there are so many issues, it just takes too much away from the enjoyment. I hope he gets better beta readers in the future. But if you enjoyed the previous book, you’ll definitely also enjoy this one. There’s more story, and a slightly better focus.
I again listened to the audiobook narrated by Ryan Kennard Burke, who did an equally excellent job again, and he was really the best thing about the audiobook. My only ‘but’ this time around, was that there was an overload of aliens with french accents. It was somewhat weird, and again, ruined the setting.
I received this audiobook for free in return for a review. I have no affiliation with the author, the narrator, the publisher, or their pets (Although I am sure the latter are quite nice!).
The writing style and the narration was exactly the same as with the previous book, thus my general comments and critiques are essentially the same as for the first book in the trilogy, and I refer to my review of the first book which gives a deeper insight into the shortcomings and positives. The following sections will assume you’ve read/listened to the first book and read my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Despite the main characters dying from their time bomb in the first book, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that they somehow made it out of it alive. It turns out that the time bomb has altered their timeline, and things are not exactly as they remember it. It was a nice twist, which shook up the story. Unfortunately, as it was very much written in the same style as the prequel, which I didn’t like very much. While the writing per se is fine, especially the action and dialogs works well, there’s too big a lack of substance. The first book was quite short for what it was trying to achieve, and as mentioned in my previous review, it really could have used more time to develop its characters. As the sequel is 33% longer, I had hoped that it would take its time to add some flesh, but that turned out not to be the case. Characters did go from paper thin, to cardboard thin, but overall their only desires in life were to stay alive and save the world. Why they wanted to save the world, I do not know, but I just guess they felt like it? On top of that, they act and speak like 21st century teenagers, with their slang and swearing coming straight out of an MTV show, and that didn’t suit the book at all. Similarly, I felt that descriptions of scenes and aliens were too superficial, and we again got a lot of aliens that look like things on Earth (Cat, lizard, bear, saurian, reptile, demon, crocodile, lobster, cat, dog, bear, pitbull, insect, were the ones I noticed this time around!), which is really lazy writing as previously mentioned. And really, do people in the far future, or in a galaxy far far away, really say things like “His mouth smelled like boiled anus”, “He had the skin the color of baby poop” or “Who let the dogs out”? It is good to let your characters talk like real life characters, but if you put them somewhere not on Earth, please don’t let them speak like they are actually there in our contemporary time.
Since this book was longer, I got a better idea of its writing, and to me it felt as if I was reading an action movie script. There’s non-stop action, which is fine, but when the author completely forgets that the reader does not have the visual concept that the he has, and he lets the story move way too fast, it just doesn’t work. I had a hard time following the plot at times, since there’s almost no descriptive scene transitions, and we don’t get much details of the settings. Add the main characters with no desires in life other than the above, and you have a very unfocused outcome for the reader. I just didn’t care for the characters, and the story was too shallow.
There’s a new bad guy, and he’s exactly the same as the last bad guy - We know essentially nothing about him, and he’s just there to give our heroes a hard time. Same goes for all the other baddies they encounter, most of them are evil just because.
We have plenty of science fiction speak, which is not something that bothers me, but there was way too many places where “one character explains generic scifi term to another character”. In other cases the author invents extreme bling bling future technology, and that was okay, except that the plot relied way too much on terms and explanations which were obviously invented on the spot to make it sound epic. Coupled with tons of time traveling shennanigans, and you end up with a reader that is lost.
While I am sure that the author has envisioned something big, and despite the above comments, I do feel that there’s a good and epic science fiction story hidden somewhere. But when there are so many issues, it just takes too much away from the enjoyment. I hope he gets better beta readers in the future. But if you enjoyed the previous book, you’ll definitely also enjoy this one. There’s more story, and a slightly better focus.
I again listened to the audiobook narrated by Ryan Kennard Burke, who did an equally excellent job again, and he was really the best thing about the audiobook. My only ‘but’ this time around, was that there was an overload of aliens with french accents. It was somewhat weird, and again, ruined the setting.
I received this audiobook for free in return for a review. I have no affiliation with the author, the narrator, the publisher, or their pets (Although I am sure the latter are quite nice!).
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June 17, 2020I fast skimmed number two.
Dialog tags still a mess.
Not a bad book though.
May fast skim #3.
May skip.
Dialog tags still a mess.
Not a bad book though.
May fast skim #3.
May skip.
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