I really enjoyed the premise and world building in this book. There’s a One World Alliance that basically falls into power by releasing a virus into the world that only they have control over and that’s a pretty cool premise for a book, right? Sure…It is and Steven Bird does a fairly good job at fleshing out the world and his characters, but that’s where it just stop being fun. The book reads stale an unemotional, there’s just no hear to this audio book. This could also be the fault of Kevin Pierce’s narration, which comes off as stoic and downright oddly unemotional at times, but it could also be that some of the lines and scenarios feel as if they were written by robots that have never actually experienced true human emotion. The story did have good pacing and some really action packed moments that kept you reading, but I was glad when the book was over as it seemed to drag on a few hours longer than it needed to.
This one just didn’t do it for me and after another book that were just meh, I may be done listening to Pierce for a little while.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.