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Centauri Bliss: Publisher's Pack
- Narrated by: David Benjamin Bliss
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Centauri Bliss: Publisher's Pack
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Summary
Centauri Bliss, book 1:
Quinn doesn't have much to his name but a broken-down old freighter; even keeping it fueled is a constant struggle on the edges of civilized space where jobs are scarce and honest ones non-existent.
With the death of the Emperor civilized space begins to dissolve into squabbling factions fighting for control and beautiful new passengers aboard Quinn's ship all bring their own load of problems and opportunities.
Centauri Honor, book 2:
The Centauri Bliss has a new home on the edges of civilized space, eking out a living even as in the core the Imperium devolves quickly towards a civil war. When a job goes bad Quinn must work to keep his family same as dangers mount, even as an ancient magical threat is unleashed.
While working to stay alive and to keep the ship flying the Centauri continues to try to find a balance, and truly begins to discover its power with the combined set of talents each brings.
Warning: This book has explicit sex, nudity, murder, and a lot of crime. There is a harem, a hot alien, a cheerful robot, a kick-ass lawyer, a xeno-archaeologist in a snazzy hat. It's space fantasy and space opera, with a healthy dose of magic, and hard science doesn't apply - and a galactic threat is rising.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-02-23
Good Sci-Fi Ruined By Cringe Sex
Good Sci-Fi ruined by cringe sex scenes. It's unfortunate as the world building & story is rather good - except it constantly devolves into some dorks lame fetish fiction.
The sex scenes are UNRELENTING. They are repetitive, endless, cringe, and occur at every moment even when entirely inappropriate. It's forced in at every turn. It makes the characters unrelatable and 2D. It reads like an inexperienced desperate virgin's altogether far too detailed fantasy being forced upon the reader.
The sex scenes disrupt the plot in every chapter, often multiple times, forcing in bad descriptions of orgies and alien nipples.
Every otherwise normal conversation, even arguments between characters, is turned into sex while arguing.
It's tortuous, the author desperately needs an editor who will give him a reality check & tell him to stop being a weirdo.
I pity the narrator, his performance is professional & commendable.
1 person found this helpful
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- Timothy Shipley
- 09-01-23
Could have been so much better
Good basic story but spoilt by the LONG drawn out sex scenes that did nothing to support the story. shame really, pointless titillating for the sake of it. The actual real story though was good
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- Ken Cope
- 08-10-22
Learn to write!
I managed one chapter before I lost the will to listen. The constant use of "...he said" "...she said" during every conversation is amateurish and irritating. It's a shame because the rest of the story seemed quite promising.
1 person found this helpful
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- GGG
- 17-08-22
Gratuitous poligamy spoiled it for me
Pretty fun easy to listen to adventures but if I could have removed the totally gratuitous poligamy sub plot with really uninterestingly written sex scenes- I wouldn't have abandoned the second book. This author really undermined his talent with that element. I kept ploughing through book 1 because I liked the adventures but once it started getting plain sleezy I had to stop.
Narrator did an ok job- but with that many women to voice no wonder at some points we seemed to find ourselves with a masculine version of Helga from Alo Alo.
1 person found this helpful
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- STEWART ANDREW MITCHELL
- 29-03-23
hard to get into
but saying that when I did it was good , Really enjoyed the story line.
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- Adam mcphee
- 26-02-23
it was ok
the author must of been a horny boy when he wrote this one if lots of sex is your thing you'll like this one
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- Macarpentry
- 23-01-23
Good books
If you like Firefly then this is a good alternative to that. Good character build up. And story line.
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- darron j lea
- 02-05-22
I really enjoyed it
just how a space opera should be, fun funny and entertaining, at points it reminds you of firefly, but it really isn't trying to be. just a couple of fun stories
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- Walter
- 21-03-20
Reasons to rejoyce / despair
Rejoyce:
Space opera, seedy bars, space shios, snappy comments, magic.
Despair:
Firefly wannabe, no story (yet, into book two of writing this) typecast genders, old male sex fantasies.
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- Ruudir
- 20-01-19
Firefly with a naughty edge
The book immediately reminded me of the tv series "Firefly". The same type of people on the border of decent and criminal, daring plans and constantly on the run.
The book reads as a number of episodes loosely connected with an underlying theme.
I cannot wait for the next books in the series.
7 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- J. Mathews
- 26-01-19
The good parts make it worth it.
The space opera action is good, and the story interesting. I enjoyed the book enough to want to find out what happens next and I will gladly pick up the next chapters when they come out. Be aware that this books contains several fairly graphic sex scenes, something I always find a little awkward to listen to - though the narrator did a good job with them. I had two negatives. The first is the harem male fantasy written into the book - all the female characters are very attractive and want to have sex with the main male character, and each-other - everything gets very Heinlein-esque. However, most of the female characters have at least as much depth as the male character, they are skilled, and they don't need constant rescuing (at least no more than the male character). So overall, the good far outweighed the bad and awkward for me.
6 people found this helpful
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- kyle saiki
- 21-01-19
it was shiny
if you like the show Firefly then you should get a kick out of this book!
6 people found this helpful
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- jcmwbjs
- 19-01-19
Suffice to say I loved it
I have over 350 audiobooks under my belt. Only reason I purchased this book was my wish list is thin and I love Sci Fi, that said I really enjoyed the story, I found it fun! I have a new author to follow and the narrator was excellent, not a must listen but a definite “give it an honest shot”.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Kabul
- 12-03-19
Where is the rest of the book ?
This story moved so fast , I thought parts were removed by the editor. It reads like an abridged audiobook , or if I tried to watch a favorite TV series on DVD while fast forwarding, and slowing down every 5 minutes to figure out how the plot was going .
I'm not sure if the editor was just acting as a living "spell check" or if the author was being lazy ( or was fighting " writer's block").
I really like the (Fireflysque + magic) universe that was created, but it was seriously lacking .
It feels like the author pitched an idea to a publisher and they said " ok, we love it ! we'll buy it if you can give us a finished product in two months." ( per book)?
I would love this series if it didn't seem like the author wasn't just writing it to pay his rent.
Skyler Grant, Please finish writing the "whole story" on your own schedule. Your publisher clearly doesn't give a "F" about you or what you're capable of.
This book could have been great.
3 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 15-07-19
Boring
I found myself unable to continue listening mainly because of how rushed and uneventful the story is. Not to mention that the characters develop very slowly, if at all.
2 people found this helpful
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- Machin Shin
- 15-07-22
Sudden weird femdom.
Really wanted to like these books. They started out pretty good. Then suddenly we have a character come in and start walking all over the main character. I mean, she comes in and is just "Oh, you are upset about your dead ex? Well I am going to destroy her memory." and main character just shrugs that off and keeps going. Then we have a situation of dividing up ship responsibilities. Same woman is put in charge of "family matters" and guy is in charge of the ship. She buys stuff the main character doesn't agree with, uses his money and ship money he is supposed to control. He confronts her and what happens? She basically rapes him and he forgets about it. This kind of thing happens over and over. I just find it hard to stay interested when main guy is a drooling idiot who will let women just walk all over him cause "boobies!"
1 person found this helpful
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- Linda Luella
- 15-06-19
The sex is too weird for me.
I'm stopping now because although I enjoy romance novels and some "harem" arrangement stories I've enjoyed, this reads more like a Mormon or Islamic marriage situation to me. I need comedy to enjoy reading about such arrangements, which isn't employed here
1 person found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-03-19
Enjoyable but predictable
Excellent voice acting great range and diversity of tone for characters. Story makes use of many tropes.
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- S. Johnson
- 12-02-19
Really Enjoyed it.
The narrator gives some of the female characters voices that sound like men but I really enjoyed the story.
1 person found this helpful