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  • The Disturbance, Book 1
  • By: Brandon Q. Morris
  • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
  • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)
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Summary

Some secrets are meant to be kept.

No one has ever ventured deeper into space than the four astronauts of Shepherd-1. The aim of their mission is to witness the creation of the cosmos. Using the sun as a lens, they are to align a flock of probes in such a way that the moment of the Big Bang becomes visible.

For astronomer Christine, this is a dream come true. So she is bitterly disappointed when the first images are obscured by a kind of veil that prevents any insight. She works obsessively to find a solution, but when she finally succeeds in lifting the veil, she sees something that would have been better kept hidden...

©2022 Brandon Q. Morris (P)2023 Podium Audio

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Didn’t get on with this book

Can’t say I enjoyed this book. Started to lose focus and interest and got a bit bored to be honest.

Oh and just call him Ben, the name aspect of the French astronaut started grating, not happy with my book choices lately….

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Pretty good book but falls apart in the last third

This is a pretty good book, it's well told and the performance is excellent. The pacing is good, the atmosphere is good and some parts are genuinely creepy. I recommend reading it in a pitch black room for optimal effect.

However the last third of the book falls apart, things stop making sense and I feel like the author had a hard time resolving plotlines in a way that made sense whilst still driving to the intend conclusion.

There are the small errors made in a lot of popular sci-fi, like going on about how dark space is (it is not). Or characters being able to see stars out the window whilst in a brightly lit room (you would not). Or not really portraying orbital mechanics and things like inertia properly.
These are details and matter little for the story. However, when physics become a plot point and you have a expert talking about it, it needs to be right. It takes 5 minutes to look up how much matter a black hole with a diameter of a few meters has. The author not simply looking up this information is insulting to the reader. Either get it right or make it irrelevant.

I feel like this is a bit of a shame as it is a blemish on an otherwise good book. I would still recommend the book, but I feel a bit let down.

I appreciated the callback to a previous series by the author.

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