The first 3 hours are filled with child murder and torture. Like, small children 5-6 years old. Our MC, much older, can hardly be dislodged from his own self-pity to care. There is no happiness, joy, or humor anywhere to be found and the conversations among children–accurately depicted–gets old. The only hope for reader satisfaction is that there is a prophecy that our MC will deliver justice to the bad aliens, but the author shuts down any optimism on the part of the reader by also predicting the MC’s disgraced death in a cave. Why should I bother to keep listening, if I don’t have a victory to look forward to?