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The Razor
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
J. Barton Mitchell's The Razor is a riveting science-fiction thriller about a man struggling to survive the chaos on a prison planet.
Brilliant engineer Marcus Flynn has been sentenced to 11-H37 - a hard labor prison planet better known as the Razor, where life expectancy is short and all roads are dead ends - alongside the galaxy's most dangerous criminals. At least until the Lost Prophet goes active....
In a few hours, prison guards and staff are evacuated, the prisoners are left to die, and dark mysteries begin to surface. Only Flynn has the skills and knowledge to unravel them, but he will have to rely on the most unlikely of allies - killers, assassins, pirates, and smugglers.
If they can survive each other, they just might survive the Razor....and claim it for their own.
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- Sarah
- 24-10-24
great scifi, great characters
I really enjoyed this, some great world building and characters that really grew on me and had believable story arcs.
there's definitely an Alien vibe in this, but it's different enough to be great on its own.
Real shame there isn't a sequel...
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- Paul Lloyd
- 05-12-18
A gripping read
I liked this book from its opening pages. The characters a well drawn, and the plot grips you, once its pace starts picking up. The idea behind the story is good, and it takes the entire book to work out some of the hidden features of it. Be aware, these characters are desperate and are certainly not the type one would normally invite home to dinner! Consequently, their language is sometimes not nice. For all that, though, they are engaging in their different ways.
The book ends on an enigma - it's obvious that the story will continue, and I am one who will be standing in line to get its sequel. Baldree does a good job of performing the plot with good voice characterization.
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- Eddie K.
- 28-04-20
Brilliant book
It takes a great book for you to root for the bad guys! Enough said, thoroughly enjoyable
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- ZX80
- 03-03-19
It's a movie script (and only part 1)
Razor has a great premise to work from, a mercury like planet with no rotation and a thin habitual zone between molten hell and freezing desert; what to do with such a planet? turn it into a penal colony of course... This book was actually a lot of fun and I enjoyed listening to it, the narration was good and fitted the story well. Some of the scenes were superb set pieces - I was particularly gripped by the events underground at at the research base where we are introduced to what I know will be a repeat adversary to our hero, Marcus Flynn in the almost inevitable next in the series.
However, therein lies the main reason this book falls down a bit for me, it reads too much like a movie script - fast paced action where the main characters move from one 'arena of danger' to the next. This is all great stuff but we've been here before and from a great premise there is nothing particularly new on show in Razor. It also suffers from the usual clichés such as the inevitable (and rather poorly developed) love interest; the masculine focus (women need saving or are uber-evil \ uber-weird \ uber-tough beings) and, of course, the aforementioned 'setting the scene' for the next part in the movie (sorry, book) franchise.
There is no doubt that this book is worth one of your credits, it is a good story and is well read but that doesn't change the fact that it feels like an opportunity missed. For all that, I will be looking out for part 2!
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