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What made the experience of listening to The Evaran Chronicles Box Set the most enjoyable?

The Narrator and his versatility made this a great Audio book.That is the beauty of listening to a book, a narrator can take you and your imagination on a totally different trip then reading a book.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Evaran Chronicles Box Set?

N/A

Which character – as performed by Michael Pauley – was your favorite?

The obvious the good Doctor himself.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Well that kind of backside I do not have the 3 books are close to 26 hours.

Any additional comments?

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

20 people found this helpful

Great collection of stories!

Take 3 amazing novels about a singular and unique protagonist and this is what you get. I already had the 3 books but couldn't resist getting the collection. Love being able to listen all in one long set. Highly recommend the set. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

4 people found this helpful

Good, but not great

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

TLDR; Dr. who with fewer hangups about killing people O.o

This a tough one, one the one hand I liked it, on the other, I don't like it enough to look at the rest of the series. It's not bad by any means, but I just didn't really care for it. Honestly, given that I listen to a lot of Sci-fi I'm not really sure where this one lost my interest, but it did.

Overall, not bad, not great, and serviceable enough, but I don't think I'll look at the rest of there series.

3 people found this helpful

Doctor Who meets Lost in Space

This series creates a universe where anything is possible and then thrusts the listener into ongoing action.

I really think that this a decent book series. In truth it really does have everything that you want in a huge space opera/galactic saga. However, I found that it was off putting that so many of what I thought were going to be amazing moments were simply rushed over and only touched upon in a few sentences or paragraphs.

I will say this. have you ever had a friend tell you that you have to get through the first season of a show or play a game for fifteen hours before it gets really good? That is the best way to explain the first two books. It really starts to get good in book 3. I think Adair Hart really starts to write some very interesting and gripping fiction in three especially the Emily's arc. If he had written the entire book the way he wrote that arc I'd be beside myself with praise for this series.

I do recommend it. It's a slow boil but it gets there. Anyone who likes time travel, aliens, and multiple dimensional planes will get a kick out of this story.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Amazing!!!

Never before it was so easy for me to give 5 stars!
Truly I got nothing bad to say here, even the performance was better then perfect.
This series is awesome, Doctor Who is a pussycat compered to Evaran he is the doctor on steroids and much much more.
This series is pure fun, as always when time travel is involved it can be mind boggling but with those books you can put it all aside and just enjoy and you will I guarantee it, after all that's the reason we read or listen to books we want some time out and enjoy.
This series will do it, I recommend it with all my heart.

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Spellbinding story

This is one of the best stories I have heard in a long time! I listened to the pre book and was hooked. you want to keep listening to see what happens next!
I am fascinated by time travel and alternate universes and this has hooked me on this story and I cannot wait for more to be on Audible.
Michael Pauley does a fantastic job handling all the different voices that I would think it is a crew of people doing it. The sound effect are great and I cannot say I have heard another audio book that was better! I will look for other books by him!

2 people found this helpful

Worst. Narration. EVER.

The story was good, so good in fact that I suffered through all three audiobooks to learn it.

This was my first book narrated by Michael Pauley. I will sample stories by read by this narrator before I ever buy one because if all his narrations are like this, I will wait to read the book instead of listening to the audiobook version.

Imagine every sentence or paragraph in an entire book read ending with a breathless "ah" (as if the narrator is shocked at something) before a pause for breath. That is how this book series sounded read by Pauley. It was so distracting I nearly stopped 3 chapters into the first book.

Pauley also had terrible accents, emotional inflection for characters and generally sounded like a robot voice - like what you would hear in an Anonymous video.

2 people found this helpful

Why do this?

This author here definitely has skill, but as so many others have said, the story is such an obvious ripoff of Dr. Who that I just can't overlook it. I tried, honestly. We have a time traveling alien guy who acts as a champion of justice. He has a magic ring, a space ship that is larger on the inside, and many of the same personal characteristics. The guy IS Dr. Who.

If you like to write and have talent, why on earth would you do something so self-sabotaging as to steal someone else's well established idea? Why waste time writing a series of books that is not your own creation? For Crikey's sake, spend some time coming up with your own idea and write a great story!

I just don't get it.

10 people found this helpful

This trilogy is really entertaining

I discovered Adair Hart via a Bookbub email. I no longer purchase books because the premise sounds interesting. It must have a minimum of 4.2 stars and sound interesting, Audible is expensive!
That said...
A wonderful time travel story, in the Jules Verne tradition. Not a whole bunch of hokie crap. Straight forward, clear and unlike many other books, every word added to the story. It's not a fast read/listen, you must pay attention but you will be, OH SO ENTERTAINED!

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A poor man's Doctor Who

Evaran a time travelling alien who picks up people (let's call them.... companions) and brings them onto his "bigger on the inside" space ship to travel throughout the universe solving problems in history. As has been mentioned in a few other reviews this is effectively a rip off of Doctor Who. Not even a well disguised ripoff. And not an overly interesting on either.

Add to that the first book actually has almost none of the promised time travel adventures. It's a straight up "we are trapped on this ship with aliens and have to fight them to get out" story. How the humans get trapped on the ship is told in a bland re-telling by another character, because the humans don't actually remember. It badly fails the "show, don't tell" idea. The next two books pick up in terms of story, involving some time travel hijinks and adventures.

The writing itself is generally bland. Easy to follow by hardly engaging. 20 minutes after reading a section I had already forgotten most of it, beyond the broad strokes, because nothing was memorable. No clever writing. No real sense of urgency or excitement to the events, and no tension building elements like foreshadowing. It was just.... beige. At no point did I care about any of the characters, and any deaths or injuries were met with a muted lack of response from me.

Michael Pauley does okay with the narration. He does voices and emotes well for the characters. His pacing is generally good although in places feels off. At times he sounds really bored, but I'm not 100% sure that isn't me projecting onto the narration. It probably would have been a 3/5.

The thing that really drags the work down is the sound production. It is all over the place. There is music... sometimes (in some action scene there was 'action' music behind it, to make it more tense. But that only occurred one and the practice was dropped, not to be used again in the book). There is sound effects... sometimes. It's all applied unevenly, with no apparent rhyme or reason. And then there is distortion effects added to some character voices. Some work, but most don't. The one that really stood out for me was an Emperor (I think) who had a weird echo effect added. I assume it was supposed to make him sound powerful but all it dd was was make him sound like he was a long was away and sound rather ridiculous.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

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