With high technology, magic and space travel.. this book promised to be an enjoyable one.. past books were not bad.. but the characters in the book are just thin, erratic, low IQ and unstable. While I’m sure there could be many like this in a universe, its nearly everyone in the book. You would think a space faring people would be smarter and more stable than an 8 year old, but no.. I had to FF so many times.. I see why they merged all 12 missions.. i made it to the end of 8 or 9 and if i had to pay for them individually.. i would not make it past mission 2.. hell, i almost didn’t. Now at mission 9, as much as i want to know what happens in the story, I find my self looking for the short description so i don’t have to continue listening. The underlying story is good but the chars.. god its like a soap on tv.. I gave it a 3 because the underlying story is interesting and the reader is not bad, but this book is 80% filler and poor filler at that.

I’m glad i only paid $5 on sale for 1-12 or i would return it.