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Persephone Station

By: Stina Leicht
Narrated by: Maria Liatis
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Hugo Award-nominated author Stina Leicht has created a take on space opera for fans of The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation tenaciously wants to exploit.

Rosie, owner of Monk's Bar, in the corporate town of West Brynner, caters to wannabe criminals and rich Earther tourists, of a sort, at the front bar. However, exactly two types of people drank at Monk's back bar: members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them.

Angel, ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing, is asked to perform a job for Rosie. What this job reveals will effect Persephone and put Angel and her squad up against an army. Despite the odds, they are rearing for a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation. For Angel, she knows that once honor is lost, there is no regaining it. That doesn't mean she can't damned well try.

©2021 Stina Leicht (P)2021 Recorded Books Genetic Engineering Science Fiction Space Opera

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Apart from the ending feeling rushed, I really enjoyed this sci-fi take on a small band of warriors defending a village against the might of a corporation. I hope we see the characters (especially the embodied AI) in future stories set in this world.

Narration was good, although no fault of the narrator, the ‘he said she said’ parts of the text were sometimes tedious to hear.

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After listening to the acknowledgements, the author seems genuinely lovely, have a way with words, and clearly put a great deal into the creation of this novel. I just wish I enjoyed the book as much as the acknowledgements.

This is a sci-fi novel. Unfortunately, that's really all I can say as it just slid off my brain as I was listening to it. If you want a soupson of The Murderbot Diaries with some sci-fi antics, you might get something out of this.

The only things that really stood out were the way dialogue is written with "X said" after every phrase, which takes all rhythm out of every conversation. Readers are generally trusted to follow a conversation between two people, but not here. This isn't helped by the way the narrator handles this predilection.

The other is much more positive and I would be lying if it wasn't the main reason I decided to stick with it and finish the book. The inclusion and discussion around gender and the characters is handled really well, which was honestly a delight to read. While I have a lot of other criticisms and largely didn't enjoy this book, I truly appreciate the effort the author went to in this regard, especially after so much awfulness in many of sci-fi and fantasy offerings.

I hate leaving bad reviews, especially for authors who really seem to care and are trying, but this really wasn't for me and read like a decent amateur affair.

The story was also let down by narration that was flat with some odd and, I'm almost certain, at least one mispronunciation or incorrect word used. Sadly, they did nothing to elevate the story and only made the issues more glaring with how they hit them.

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I was frustrated about not enjoying this book. I like the premise and I was really drawn by the queer feminist set of characters. The story line is also overall good/interesting. But I do think the writing style was an issue, it just didn't flow properly, the pacing wasn't quite right and overall the dialogues felt forced. I feel like essentially this book needed a more thorough edit, and more thought into the writing style. I don't really like giving negative reviews to book that aimed to do something innovative and positive, but I did feel like there was potential that didn't quite deliver. What I'll say though is that I did enjoy the world building and the technological aspects, I thought that worked well.

I appreciate what the books wanted to do but it didn't quite deliver

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I really wanted to like this and I tried I really did but I gave up 3 hours from the end because I wasn't listening anymore I was just waiting for it to be over.

The intro was great and I thought ooh great we'll get to find out about this planet and it's people, it's a great idea for a speculative sci fi story. Unfortunately that was about it we went into a town where we met loads of characters and found out about everyone's outfits, how they decorated their homes and about their love lives. After this the story gets going but it's completely different from what I imagined and there's just lots of fighting and nothing else. we got a paragraph about the indigenous people and how they came to be and then guns guns guns. I don't mind battle stories but this isn't particularly well done.
there's a lot of 'she said' as well which I tried very hard to ignore.

Basically I got bored and gave up. it's a shame because I would love to know more about this unique planet and it's people.

DNF but I'm sure others will like it.

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Sorry for the negative review and for picking on this author in particular. The same sorts of things are holding back a bunch of recent scifi titles from all over the place that would otherwise be decent I reckon.

This novel is just not ready. The way dialogue is written is extremely stilted, "xxx said" just keeps hitting you. I'm trying out new authors all the time and will try something else from this author, but man, I feel book editors just got mass teleported off-planet or something.

The publisher can't pay like a grand to get some really strong notes from a reviewer/editor? It would have made a huge difference imo. Do I care if that delays publishing or increases the price? No I just want incredible stories and prose. Have you read The Bone Clocks? That book will knock you out.

The audio recording was kinda uneven, Maybe overcompressed or the mic was from temu? I've been on Teams calls with better fidelity. Some of the accents meandered around but others were quite charming.

The author instils humour which is nice, there's nothing worse than a bad novel except a dry bad novel. The jokes were a little weird though, deflating the high stakes in a way that Firefly doesn't, for example.

There's a lot of 2020s progressive cues given in a way that feels designed to get the title into a particular highlight shelf in the bookshop/booktok. Everything feels "Approved", does that make sense?

not ready for prime time

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