Great story so far, narration is wooden. I get the impression the narrator was extremely constipated while recording this book. Or perhaps his first language is not English and/or he doesn’t have a sense of the musicality of language that is required for reading fiction effectively (he’d be great at narrating a technical manual). Consequently the work comes across as stilted and phony. But it’s not bad writing. It’s good for the genre. If the book were to be read by someone with more flow and gravitas it would spark. All that being said I still think it’s worth a listen.