Machine (White Space #2)

The narrator clearly did not listen to the first novel and so differing pronunciations of characters like Cheeirilaq or Haimey Dz were kind of jarring. But the worst was the pronunciation of the name a new character, Calliope. As that character becomes more prominent, the pronunciation as Callie-ope instead of Ca-LYE-o-pee really bothered me. The strength of the writing made it worth finishing the audiobook but wow was it annoying to my ears at times.

Great world building, great character, and the very few pronunciation mistakes (which may not really have been) by Adjoa Andoh don\’t take away from brilliant and beautiful narration. Such a wonder, rich voice. It was a pleasure to listen to. This takes place in the same universe as as the previous book but doesn\’t really directly rely on knowledge from that book. Very glad I ignored the few people who said ugly things about the narration. I totally enjoyed this.

There are a lot of amateurs writing sci-fi now…..probably a good thing, but you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a really good combination of story, characters and imagination. This is a REALLY good one. Excellent narration as well.

the best thing about this book I think is the narration. just amazingly well done! reads like a mystery, whodunnit, not exactly mind bending, I figured out pretty much right away who the culprits were, but it was just a fun read be entertained while on bike rides, hikes and long drives that makes up.a majority of my life. will continue to buy books by elizabeth bear

there was a lot of personal growth of the characters in book one… book two is mostly around the one main character and understanding where they came from and their personal growth… as it pertains to the story and the story is amazing and twisty and turny and you are trying to figure out what\’s happening and who\’s doing it… it\’s an excellent space opera it\’s an excellent mystery it\’s excellent sci-fi it\’s excellent at conveying reasonable psychological and emotional evolution. Elizabeth Bear is officially one of my new favorite authors! everything of hers that I\’ve read so far has been fantastic. it confronts ableist problems it confronts feminist problems it confronts racist problems it confronts a myriad of blind spots that most people don\’t even know that they have and in a way that makes you aware of them without smacking you in the face. I have nothing but good things to say. if you even remotely enjoyed the first book the second book is easily three times as good.

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