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Bone Silence

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Return to the Revenger universe, for another thrilling tale set among the stars....

Quoins are accepted currency throughout the thousands of worlds of the Congregation. Ancient, and of unknown origin and purpose, people have traded with them, fought for them, and stolen quoin hordes from booby-trapped caches at risk to life and limb throughout the Thirteen Occupations. Only now it's becoming clear they have another purpose...as do the bankers who've been collecting them.

The Occupations themselves are another puzzle. The rise and fall of civilisation may have been unevenly spaced across history, but there is also a pattern. Could something be sparking the Occupations - or ending them? And if so, what could it be, lurking far beyond the outermost worlds of the Congregation?

The Ness sisters are being hunted for crimes they didn't commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own. If they're to survive, and stay one step ahead of their pursuers - if they're to answer the questions which have plagued them - it's going to require every dirty, piratical trick in the book....

©2019 Alastair Reynolds (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group
Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Space Fiction

Critic Reviews

"A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation." (Guardian)

"A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future." (Sun)

"A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort." (Daily Telegraph)

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great performance

I like revenger and alastair reynolds and this continuation is pretty good. the performance elevates it, the reader is fantastic.

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Third Book in the Revenger Series

Completes the story of the Ness sisters and their adventures with the Revenger. High quality story and performance.

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Strange emphasis.

Overall I very much enjoyed this series and this book in particular. The concept of this series is figuratively incredible, except for the part of the story concerning the currency which is literally incredible.

The narrator regularly puts emphasis on the wrong word in a sentence, showing that she does not understand the meaning of the sentence and making it more difficult for the listener to follow. I am surprised that something so fundamental would not be noticed by the editor or author before this was released. The quality of the audio is very good and the voice work is otherwise excellent.

The monetary aspect of the story doesn't work. The author doesn't seem to have much understanding of the nature and origin of money, particularly in a hard money society, like Britain in the golden age of sail, which is clearly inspiration for this series.

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Damn

I wasn't expecting a kinda boring YA book from Alastair Reynolds, Good performance but couldn't keep me interested.

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Anticlimactic

I really wanted to love this book and the build up from the previous two made me think of a great epic ending as is typical in an Alastair Reynolds novel compendium.
Performance is as always fantastic, I can always visualise the characters and who is talking just by hearing the accents being spoken aloud so 5 stars there.
However I must say that the excitement and mystery of the first two books was just missing in this one. No more bauble hunts or hidden identities or intrigues. The story sort of just dragged out a long while and this really should be the crowning jewel of the authors works up until now but it seems the story just had no where to go by the end.
But I had to listen to the end because completion is a compulsive companion and was the sole driving force behind my listening to this Audio Book.

Hope you enjoy this story although i can’t really say much here or else I may spoil the story for any newcomers to the series.

If this is your first foray into Alastair Reynolds than I recommend this trilogy of the Ness sisters or that of revelation space.

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Is this written by a teenage girl

Seriously, this series was terrible. It reads like it’s written by a 14 year old girl trying to rebel, but with no idea what she’s rebelling against. It reads like Young Adult or Teen fiction.

The underlying premise is marginally interesting for a bit, but the story goes nowhere. There’s no style or grace to any of it. The whole thing was just one big ugh.

The big reveal at the end is like a firework that doesn’t go off. After 3 books it just fizzles out into nothing. Pages and pages of attempted failing climax, then it just gives up.

If this is his best work, wow. The others must be unparalleled garbage.

Do not buy this book

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