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A review by krakentamer
The Unmaking Engine by Ian W. Sainsbury
4.0
Good followup to a book that I was almost ambivalent about. This time around, there's much more meat to the story and the characters have been fleshed out enough that I can care enough about them. There's a plot twist near the very end that I found extremely groan-worthy and extraordinarily convenient (or perhaps it was telegraphed from the beginning and this only my sour grapes for not noticing it until then).
The audiobook narrator (Todd Boyce) did a good job with accents and voices, but as with the previous book, there's a couple of mis-pronunciations that seemed a little jarring:
Hyundai = "Hi-Yun-Day" instead of "Hun-day"
Samurai = "Sam-YOU-Rye" instead of "SAM-oo-rye"
Deja Vu = "Dezsh-uh-Vu" instead of "Day-zha-Vu"
747 (plane) = "Seven-Four-Seven" instead of "Seven Forty-Seven"
Granted, these are entirely picking at nits and could possibly be explained as a cultural difference.
The audiobook narrator (Todd Boyce) did a good job with accents and voices, but as with the previous book, there's a couple of mis-pronunciations that seemed a little jarring:
Hyundai = "Hi-Yun-Day" instead of "Hun-day"
Samurai = "Sam-YOU-Rye" instead of "SAM-oo-rye"
Deja Vu = "Dezsh-uh-Vu" instead of "Day-zha-Vu"
747 (plane) = "Seven-Four-Seven" instead of "Seven Forty-Seven"
Granted, these are entirely picking at nits and could possibly be explained as a cultural difference.