Dive into the down and dirty what I liked and what I didn’t. Listened to all 4 books and I want to provide honest feedback that isn’t based off of personal cognitive bias.
Story – Starts off well, character development is a bit lacking, but the lack of character background doesn’t take away from the book. Scenario is believable. Description of vacations, college, family in different locations, all believable. Books 1-3 are realistic without touching the sci fi piece to much. The 4th book gets a little bit out of touch with the first three. The 4th book is worth the read, but has some unrealistic components.
Story content – Laughing, crying, anger, despair, rejoice, empathy, etc are captured well. This book hits the “feelings” part nicely.
Narration – Did well, not great, but nothing to steer people away from or write home about. Decent job overall.
Characters – Understand that the back story isn’t really there, which is fine, the author did enough “in the now” content with bits of history to support decisions and thought process. Characters are unique, and the policitcal stuff others mention in their reviews are silly. If all the characters had the same opinion it would be boring. There isn’t as much anti trump stuff as what others are claiming.
Plot – Mostly believable, book 4 has a issue that others have commented on, didn’t bother me to much. Cyber attacks are real, but if you are a true cyber person you will be able to find holes in the book versus what it would take to perform such an attack IRL. The author did not dive into details on the attack, rather focused on “it happened now what”.
Personal subjectivity – I liked this book. It had the feels, the tension, struggle, overcoming, hardship, unexpected turns, and creative scenarios. I did NOT like that every chapter seemed to end in a cliffhanger. The entire series gave me a “Look at this book, see I (the author) already made it so someone can turn it into a TV series” vibe. I enjoy continuous reading, but when every chapter is a cliffhanger, and the moves to a different scenario, then a cliff hanger, etc it would sometimes be 3-5 chapters before it came back to the main story line. I got use to it eventually, but it was irksome.
If you purchase the set for a credit, it’s worth it. If you buy them individually….well I wouldn’t.
I enjoyed this, and only wrote a review because of how much subjective negative comments there were, and I felt it was unfair. I tried here to dispute those reviews, and I hope this helps.