- Title:
- Project: Perception
- Author:
- Joshua Cook
- Release:
- June 28, 2016
- Format:
- Audiobook
- Narrator:
- Skyler Morgan
It’s difficult to talk about this story without spoilers. So be warned.
Starting off, the story is interesting. I thought it was going to be a story of a protagonist locked in a small room, slowly losing his mind. Nope. He was killed off and the perspective changed. It was well done, sure. But part of me was more interested in the first protagonist.
When the story introduces this mob boss-esque “admin” character and then later mentions an AI that left the planet. It became blatantly obvious who and what this admin was. Whle that reveal fell flat for me, others were a pleasant surprise.
The thing I found myself annoyed with was the side plot of these two guys who were looking into the protagonists. The whole story you’re given glimpses to what they’re doing, their suspicions and how they’re onto the the protagonists. All that buildup and it fizzles out at the end like a wet fart. It didn’t go anywhere. It was a total waste of time.
I enjoyed this one, for what it was. It had an uphill battle because I can’t stand SciFi. I request review copies via. genre and I didn’t realize the ones listed were SciFi stuff. So I was really pleasantly surprised with this one. It wasn’t just the side story that was a dud, it was the ending as a whole. But the story overall was good.
The audiobook has some issues. Chapter 2 is extremely quiet. The audiobook in general seemed too quiet to me. I could barely hear it with my phone volume turned up to max. The volume was all over the place. When chapter 3 started, it sounded slightly louder than 2, but from there, I got used to it and stopped paying attention to it.
Overall, the narrator was good. I got sick and tired of him mispronouncing the word across. It’s seriously annoying when people add letters to words. “acrosst” isn’t a word and it cums up over and over in this story, compounding my annoyance.
NOTE: This copy was provided to me free of charge as a digital review copy. The opinions stated in this review are mine and mine alone, I was not paid or requested to give this book a certain rating, suggestion, or approval.