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A review by blackash13
Andromeda by Amy Bartelloni
2.0
Andromeda follows four teens (two girls, two boys) who were "raised" in a government camp that was established following a viral outbreak that turned its victims into crazed zombies. The reader picks up the story at a point where the girls and boys have gotten separated, but they are trying to meet up at another camp in Albany, NY.
This book is definitely geared to the YA audience. I listened to the audiobook (more on that later), and as I went along, I was thinking to myself, "This is OK....I might pick up book 2". It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. The dialogue between the characters wasn't so great, and the characters themselves weren't really fleshed out. It was difficult to tell which character was speaking most of the time. The story itself was decent, but it started to lose me when the villain proclaimed, "Nothing can stop me now!"
It is the first book in a series, so while the story kinda, sorta wraps up, it most certainly ends in such a way that you know there is more to come.
Now....as for the audiobook narrator. I hate to say it, but she was dreadful...just awful. She was fine in the first chapter. I don't know what happened after that, but she turned into a total robot. Siri has more personality in her voice than this narrator. There was virtually no emotion in her voice. Her emphasis was consistently placed in the wrong portion of each sentence. She pronounced the title of the book an-dro-MEE-da, rather than an-DROM-eda. One of the boys' name was Malachi (mal-UH-kai). She pronounced it mo-LOCK-y. It was absolutely bizarre. Is it possible the author never heard the narration? I wonder if I would've given the book another star had I just READ it.
I may give book 2 a try, but if there's an audiobook, I won;t go anywhere near it.
This book is definitely geared to the YA audience. I listened to the audiobook (more on that later), and as I went along, I was thinking to myself, "This is OK....I might pick up book 2". It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. The dialogue between the characters wasn't so great, and the characters themselves weren't really fleshed out. It was difficult to tell which character was speaking most of the time. The story itself was decent, but it started to lose me when the villain proclaimed, "Nothing can stop me now!"
It is the first book in a series, so while the story kinda, sorta wraps up, it most certainly ends in such a way that you know there is more to come.
Now....as for the audiobook narrator. I hate to say it, but she was dreadful...just awful. She was fine in the first chapter. I don't know what happened after that, but she turned into a total robot. Siri has more personality in her voice than this narrator. There was virtually no emotion in her voice. Her emphasis was consistently placed in the wrong portion of each sentence. She pronounced the title of the book an-dro-MEE-da, rather than an-DROM-eda. One of the boys' name was Malachi (mal-UH-kai). She pronounced it mo-LOCK-y. It was absolutely bizarre. Is it possible the author never heard the narration? I wonder if I would've given the book another star had I just READ it.
I may give book 2 a try, but if there's an audiobook, I won;t go anywhere near it.