Meh

Didn't like the male narrator. He sounded too old for the twenty-somethings he was meant to portray.

Story about a girl awesome at everything, wanted by everyone, blah, blah blah. Yet somehow she's still a missfit. Eh.
Finished on a huge cliffhanger yet I truly couldn't care less.

This one wasn't for me - not the target audience.

Writing was polished enough and female narrator was good.

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If you live urban fantasy with some romance

Loved this series so much I can’t wait for the rest of the series to be narrated so I got the rest of the series on kindle. The first book ended in a cliffhanger! I enjoyed the narration a lot too and liked that it was a male and a female narrator. A little flirtatious steaminess sprinkled through the book which I personally enjoyed, definitely looking forward to any future urban fantasies by this author! Read this now

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Brilliant series

Love this book and series soooo much. Definitely worth listening to this so so good!

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Resilience and strength

Love Char’s strength and ability to soldier through the rough! Looking forward to the next book and seeing what comes next.

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Blunt force trauma

This book is ruined by the male characters and male narrator. One man uses “f**k” almost non-stop, one wants to punish or use the girl - both are completely dismissive of her as a person. That is not sexy, that is an arsehole. I didn’t get to the others (thank God).
The male narrator sound like an A.I.
This book has the subtlety of a mace. Immature and gross.
I quit 1/2 way through, which was 1/2 way too far.

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do not get the audio, it ruined the story...

I hate being negative, but the book nerd in me requires truth for this review. I have never been so frustrated with an audiobook before... ever, but it wasn't just because of the narration that this book was a let down.

I have other books featuring Tristan James, but tjis one is by far his worse performance. He was rather flat, like really flat. There was minimal emotion, but he was not given much to go by in order to bring out the personalities of the male characters. (this is a big negative due to the authors lack of investment on the male characters; 70% of the book is told from the female POV)

Needless to say, since this book is majority female POV, Aletha George was a big fat NO on this one. Her tone was bad, she was horrible at pronouncing Bastille's name (She pronounced it Bah-still-lay ... ), and when she depicted the male characters, there was little to no effort that every chapter made me cringe. How embarrassing and a big let down to readers that the author didn't proof the audio to make sure that character names were at least pronounced correctly. I sped up the audio to get through the book to see how the story would unfold.

I wanted to like this book. The main character's meant to be quirky, a little bit of an underdog, clumsy, but somehow badass. The world concept wasn't half bad either especially since the author was trying to merge magic and technology. I just wish she put more effort into actual character development. Instead of going on and on about how clumsy the FMC is, maybe spend time on expanding the MMC's personality traits. If they weren't mentioned by name, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the different guys.

If the books weren't included in KU, I wouldn't continue on with the series.

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good narrator, but story not for me.

Love the narrator, but not into the character at all. She’s a genius engineer and a master of martial arts, but also totally a relatable clutz who loves video games. The world was kinda interesting, but the horny comments just were not working for me and really got in the way.

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