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Cibola Burn

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Summary

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds, and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world.

James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the heart of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilisation which once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed them.

Cibola Burn is the exhilarating fourth novel in the New York Times best-selling Expanse series, following the Hugo-nominated Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, and Abaddon's Gate.

Please note: The original recording has now been replaced with a new performance by Jefferson Mays. If you own this audiobook, simply re-download it from your library to access the new recording.

©2014 Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (P)2014 Hachette Audio

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dont swap the narrator of the first 3 books!

god awful narration. all the individual character voices are gone. avasarala is supposed to be Indian, not voiced as an American! can only listen for ten minutes at a time out of annoyance, no idea if the story is any good or not after 6 chapters. I'll read the book instead.

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Good book ruined by terrible narrator.

Not finished this yet but it is painful to get through. Not only is this a different narrator he is very poor too. I don't wish to demonize the guy but his narration is very flat and stunded and it has completely spoiled this book for me. Im tempted to skip this one and just read the next one.

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Narration truly awful.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

So, full disclosure. I am not a fan of series which change narrators mid way. However, I try to get over that. In this case I just couldn't.

How could the performance have been better?

You know that style of speaking that American Journalists and voiceovers for film trailers employ? Like they're talking to a child? This guy was kind of like that. At least 50% of the time his intonation has absolutely nothing to do with the words he is speaking. His dialogue is stunted and weird, and does not follow the speech patterns of a normal human being.

Perhaps he's a very fine actor, but his narration was awful.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

They're making the Expanse in to a TV series.

Is this a useful way to analyse a book?

Any additional comments?

Luckily in book five they are returning to the previous, excellent, narrator.

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They replaced the "bad" narrator with the good one

A lot of the other reviews on here are complaining about the bad narrator, so I'd like to reassure anyone coming across this that they re-recorded the audiobook in 2017 with Jefferson Mays, the narrator of the other audiobooks in the series. So please don't let the other reviews put you off!

(The story itself is OK, kind of filler in some places. The next one in the series is much better.)

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The usual narrator makes all the difference!

Since my first review, this book has been re-recorded by the original narrator and is far far better for it. I’ve left my original review below but please ignore the comments about the narrator. :-)

*********************Original review below.

Changing to a new narrator after three books was a Bad Idea. Changing to a new narrator who is terrible is an Even Worse Idea. His style when reading the descriptive text is halting with emphasis in all the wrong places, I could go on but I's run out of review space. Suffice to say if you see another book narrated by Erik Davies either AVOID or listen carefully to the sample beforehand.

Moving on, the story was well up to the standard for the series and I'ld whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first three books. I sincerely hope that the pending volume 5 will be narrated by the original guy and not Davies. Please, please, please NOT Davies!

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Terrible narration!

the previous three stories were superbly narrated but I'm just going to have to read the hard copy of the following ones

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Awful narration

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I tried and tried to listen to this story as i have heard the other books and so wanted to finish them all but i gave up after about 20 mins. The narraters voice sounded synthesized like the text readers you can get. I really wished i had looked at the reviews before buying this.

How could the performance have been better?

get a differant narrator

Could you see Cibola Burn being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

yes

Any additional comments?

please redo this book using Jefferson Mays as the narrator.

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Great story. terrible narration

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Yes

What did you like best about this story?

Great expansive story much like the earlier books

Would you be willing to try another one of Erik Davies’s performances?

No. The one bad thing about this book is the stilted and unnatural narration by Erik Davies, especially since all the others in the series are narrated so well by Jefferson Mays.

Do you think Cibola Burn needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

N/A (its part of a series - there is a follow up book already).

Any additional comments?

Why oh Why did they swap narrators for one book in the middle of a series? Jefferson Mays narration was fantastic and Erik Davies is no where near the standard - I guess that's why they chose to go straight back to Mays for the next book.

If you have got to book 4 of The Expanse you're probably committed, so just grit and bear it for one book in the knowledge that his narration won't be forever and we can get back to normal service with the next book.


Shame as it distracts from an otherwise good story.

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Good story, awful awful narration.

Dear God, but the narrator was terrible. Fist-gnawingly, Hair-tearingly awful. Worse even than John Lee (who makes every story sound like he's auditioning for an amateur Shakespeare production.)
This joker just thinks he's Captain Kirk. Had to listen to it on 1.25x speed just to ameliorate the terrible random pauses in the narration.
Seriously. Just read the book. This will make your ears hurt.
Otherwise a decent story. Typical Expanse novel, full of action and goodies vs baddies.

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Terrible new Narrator. Read the book instead.

I have been enjoying this series narrated by Jefferson Mays so far but I only managed to get half way though the prologue before deciding to just read the book instead.
The performance is flat and read in a monotone that lacks normal human speech inflections, such as just plowing on with a sentence in a single breath where you might expect a small pause for a comma or a full stop. I found myself unconsciously correcting the narrator's errors in grammar which would drive me mad if I listened to the entire thing.

I would advise anybody wishing to continue this series to skip this audiobook and read it instead.
Luckily Jefferson Mays returns for the next audiobook in the series though.

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