So this book started out well, mikitary/contract type team sent out to secure a site where a spaceship had been found by a private research group. Cool.
Part way through though the writing changes style and the characters suddenly become stupid. Like the tactical leader who has been thoughtful and cautious about the whole operation suddenly turns into a horn dog and loses all logical capacity to sense danger. The cohesive team starts acting like they only just started working together. The alien tech that all of these linguists and scientists have been studying for however long (but couldn’t decipher and there were still a million questions) somehow is navigable for only one person and that doesn’t seem suspicious. I haven’t finished this book yet, so I can’t say if it actually is suspicious or if it’s poor writing, but either way all of these men should have red flags going off. Also this weird tech is exceedingly compatible for humans even though they don’t understand it?
There is just a lot of conflicting and disjointed things happening, and an completely unnecessary “love interest” that starts and stops without any logical reason. It’s weird. I’m going to finish it because I already have it and it was free, but I would be upset if I spent money on this.
The narrator, which I have also listened to before, is fine for this sort of book. But he does have a darkly dramatic style of reading that may not be for everyone.