Best Discovery Book Yet

This book was great. The Una's writing is wonderful and gripping. A wonderful and heart warming coming of age story in the Star Trek universe. January LaVoy's vocal performance is pretty good, but her Australian accent is not quite perfect. Still better than most Americans who try it though. The best character is probably Captain Yindi Holden. Having an Indigenous Australian captain was a wonderful detail for this book, especially having her researching other cultures' oral traditions.

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loved it

loved it have a whole new respect for the characters really puts the series into context

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Deep into Tilly's Background

This is a very good book. An in depth look at Tilly's journey to Starfleet. My only disappointment with this was that it was told as a single story. Star Trek often does a great job of revealing a character's past by creating a suitable parallel situation through a current mission.

The story got much better as it went along. The churn through the earliest shared experiences becomes a solid backbone to support her later decisions.

Tilly is interesting. She's brilliant.

The narration was also fantastic!

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best character backstory ever.

fabulous to learn tillys backstory. it fully puts into perspective her entire character. loved it.

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Excellent origin story for Discovery's favourite

With Mother's like Sylvia Tilley's ... well, you know the rest. It's not straight forward and her story has surprises. A lot of fun! Loved the characterisations, January! Well done!

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Teen Fiction and a truly cringe-worthy Australian Accent

Another reviewer wrote that this is teen fiction and might not be what most Star Trek fans are looking for. They also commented on the truly appalling Australian accent applied to one of the characters in this audiobook. I should have taken that reviewer at their word and left this audiobook on the shelf, but I love Discovery and had really enjoyed one of the other Discovery audiobooks I’d previously listened to, so I thought I’d give this a go. I really wish I hadn’t.
The book itself can possibly be forgiven on the basis that it really is not aimed at adult Star Trek fans. As a work of teen fiction it possibly succeeds. I’m not really a judge of that genre so I can’t really judge. But on no account can the terrible accent applied to the Australian character: Holden Yindi be forgiven. I felt myself cringing at every sentence.
For me this book was a complete waste of time.

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Disappointingly TEEN style story. Shocking accents

Despite being an complicated TV series, with an adult demographic, and despite the main character being a complicated and interesting character with intelligence and an as yet undescribed background, this book was disappointingly aimed at Teenagers.
Granted, the main story is about a teenager, Tilly, and how she ended up in Starfleet, but the story was a whiny girl v mom story, with very little thought or research gone into the Sci Fi or Science (which in my opinion is why most people would want to read it ...aka Discovery). Apart from mentioning the word Astromycology many times, it was never delved into, what why or how. Sorry but a very 2 dimensional story. Like a bad soap opera. Not Star Trek at all.

the performance by January LaVoy was, initially, good. I was impressed with her quick change of character voice, especially the French accent. The Scots accent went a little downhill, not bad, but ot good either, but the Australian accent (I'm an Australian) was absolutely murdered. In short, it wasn't. It was a mongrel East End of London cockney, mixed with a bit of flattened American. I just hate it when Americans think we sound like East End Englishmen. (our accent is much worse, ha ha.) First cringe "Gooday"....not Good day, but gu-dai. Really fast. Second, we say last like this 'larst' not L-AST.
It would have been easy to believe the Captain of the ship was a man....surely January doesn't think all Australian women sound rough and have low voices like that. The men in the performance had higher voices than Holden! Overall, nicely read but absolutely SHOCKING accents. It destroyed it for me. Please, if you can't do an Aussie accent, don't. Or get lessons from Meryl Streep.

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