"Is this safe," says mission commander too often!

I loved the story, but the delivery was far too repetitive. I can't imagine a space commander being so intimidated by the safety concerns. I really hope the next books in the series improve. I don't need a dozen reminders of the events that transpired in the last chapter. I would like it to move along faster and tell me more about the aliens.

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Novice sci-fi author

A moon landing goes bad after encountering interference that breaks down the lander’s on-board computerized systems. Two astronauts—now being stranded on the Moon—discovers a powerful artificial intelligence and an approaching threat to Earth while investigating the source of the interference.

The story is simple, the plot line is simple, the premise is shallow, and the characters act like robots reading a script of their expected emotional reactions. There is no connection between their emotions and their behavior. Having read more than my fair share of sci-fi books, it is easy to tell that Raymond L. Weil is a novice sci-fi author.

The aliens are, of course, fully fluent in English and no Earth customs surprises them.

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The content may annoy people

The story was great, it has been a long time since I read a book by the author. However, being older and no wiser, certain points of the story annoyed me when the author indicated why a certain question was asked. Did not mind it while reading, but frustrating while listening. overall, a great story except for the quirks. I will certainly purchase the entire series.

Narrator was great and used good tone and noises to indicate different scenarios and actions.

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This is my narrative. My narrative is from grade 1

Would you try another book from Raymond L. Weil and/or Liam Owen?

No chance of ever trying this author again.

Listening to this book one is constantly reminded of the genre that follows the pattern of: "This is John. John is a boy. John is a happy boy. "I am a happy boy", says John. This is Jane. Jane also thinks John is a happy boy. "John is a happy boy", says Jane". You know: Grade 1 narrative.

The characters are also all bland and boring, and inhumanely too good and caring and sickeningly un-human.

I just couldn't take it anymore.

Has Moon Wreck turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, there are great books in this genre, just not from this author.

What three words best describe Liam Owen’s voice?

Potentially good, but not with this level of book

What character would you cut from Moon Wreck?

The author

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too redundant with details.

author keeps repeating same details feels like filler which for a short book is insane. Good story but characters are weak and not developed. The whole nagging sister dynamic is just not plausible

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Complete waste of time!

Would you try another book from Raymond L. Weil and/or Liam Owen?

NO! This author must loath the editing process or the "editor" should be shot. There are so many "WTF" and "Are you serious?" moments that the book was complete unenjoyable.

Has Moon Wreck turned you off from other books in this genre?

No. But if this was one of my first ventures into I would be very concerned about wasting more time.

How could the performance have been better?

Give the performer a better script and I am sure he could have been better. Seriously, there was not much to work with here.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Moon Wreck?

Well, I would have suggested a few things.

1) The premise is pretty good. Begin there and rethink everything.
2) Rethink the characters and their motivations.
3) Stop endlessly reminding people of concepts and events that just happened. It is unnecessary and annoying. People do not want to be annoyed while reading things. So stop reminding then of those annoying things. Like the times that you restate some event or concept that just happened. Those things can be annoying. ;)
4) Spend TIME explaining things like how everyone speaks english, has similar gestures, similar rank structure. Also, come up with a better reason for the similarities and accentuate the differences. (of course you have to actually have differences to accentuate first). This is supposed to be a race of humans that evolved and lived on multiple worlds independently from earth. You might want to spend some time addressing how the hell that is possible.

That would be session 1 of about 50 meetings. This entire book needed 3 more years of development.

Any additional comments?

I don't think I can express in words how bad this entire thing is. I'm not sure what possessed this author to think this was done enough to produce a book or series out of. It is an ill conceived and ill explained nightmare of ineptness. Horrible, terrible, and easily the shittiest attempt at Science Fiction I have had the unfortunate opportunity to witness in at least 5 years.

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A book of cliches

I just got done listing to this book. I will be returning it..
So much more could have been done with the base concept in the book.
I was hopping for something in the Lost Fleet or Kris Longknife type of space adventure.
I was very disappointed. The authors writing style needs lots of work.

Example: At one point everyone on the bridge of a ship or two were introduced along a few "interesting" details about each. Now I am sorry, but most folks will only remember the names of one or two key characters. One should concentrate on developing them. Not giving me useless personal details on folks I may on hear about only one time. It got to the point I just did not care any more.

As one reviewer also pointed out this author has a very limited view of professionalism of woman kind. Example: One of the first things a female computer expert wants to do is give the newly found alien ship the woman's touch. What??? There is more stuff like this...

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Awesome Series!

This is an incredible series! I didn't listen to this book first I started with The Slaver Wars: Alien Contact: The Slaver Wars Book Two (The Slaver Wars Book One) (Volume 1).

It was absolutely amazing! Looks of action, epic battles scenes, and just wow! Excellent story, don't want to give too many spoilers,but very exciting. After hearing and listening to that, I then listened to this one, which is a slower pace but provides much of the now what? After you hear Alien Contact.

Personally, I think you should start with Alien Contact, before listening to this, or it won't be as powerful!

Great series! Really good voice acting too!

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I have both read books and listening

The story was “ok”, the author rushed the story line and was too repetitive on the details along the story. There is absolutely no reason to describe the same details every time they use FTL, describing the same details about the races met and many other things. It makes the story repetitive and boring to the reader and the listener. The story has potential, plus the skipping so much Time takes away from the entire story line. The issues the crew ram onto when arriving on earth could have made up an entire additional book but the author chose to mention it in passing. The author missed out on the great potential this story line had. I still finished every book in reading and have been listening to them in hopes that the constant repeating the details might have been filtered out but no such luck.

Great

Great story, Great author. It is absolutely worth the purchase and read. It has adventure, humor, drama, all that you want in a book. You wont be disappointed.