Adventures of the Gunship Marathon (Box Set: Missions 1-5)

By: Daniel Young

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

"It started out with a bang and just got better." -Goodreads reviewer

Over 1,000 pages of nonstop action! If there's one thing Adam Eckhart knows, it's that humans are trouble. After all, he is one.

As captain of the Marathon, a cobbled-together ship crewed by aliens and androids scraping by on odd jobs at the outskirts of settled space, Adam has plenty to worry about without adding his own species to the mix.

But when a pair of mortally wounded humans cross his path during a heist gone wrong, he finds himself compelled to save them.

Big mistake.

Because if there's one more thing Adam knows, it's that the universe never leaves a good deed unpunished.

He and his crew are about to find out just how right he is.

Includes the first 5 books in the Marathon series:

• Bad Cargo
• Hidden World
• Trapped
• Lost Star
• War Dead

Five star reviews for Bad Cargo, book 1 in the series:

"I absolutely couldn’t put the book down. Full of action, suspense, intrigue, drama and deceit throughout the the story!"

"Quick and to the action straight away. Reminds me of the stories in the old pulp sci-fi magazines."

"When I’m ready to read for pure escape and entertainment, I’m happy to know that Mr. Young will have another book or series ready for me!"

the flat voice of the A,I, narrator.

over all good book, I enjoyed the book collection! but the voice of the A,I, narration was a little lacking in excitement or even emotional transition... but with that said, over all it was good. worth the time.

Good story

I like the story, but I did not like the virtual voice. The virtual voice lacked finer human cadence.

The story is good but

I ended giving up on listening to this book, and opted to just read the series. The story and characters are fun, but there were enough acting errors in the narration to drive me nuts.

Excellent narration

I hated the ending, other than that, an overall good sci-fi story. I liked the assorted aliens 😊

Good story

This was a very good story and I listened with interest because this was my first Virtual Voice narration.

The narration was clear and crisp but uninspired. There was little attempt to change voices with characters which for me helps to follow the story easier. If we are going o us this type of AI, then please give it better examples and instructions.

Virtual Voice Narator

I really liked the story. The problem is I hate mispronounced words. They totally throw my mind out if the story. This is gonna be my 1st and last Virtual Voice Narated book. Usually a human Narator will mispronounce one maybe 2 words. This Virtual Narator is terrible it's a better voice than having a Monotone Narator but, there's no inflection no meaning behind the words. Plus I've counted 5 words mispronounced and I'm not done with the last book yet.

Love the characters.

It was good to listen to a story with charming and complex personalities, without the men/women friction. The humor was timed well within the seriousness.

The virtual voice was better than I expected - I thought it would be horrible - it wasn’t. Of course it lacked an understanding of what it was reading,. While I understand Audible wanting to save a few dollars since they’re in danger of bankruptcy (not), but I wish they would have a little more imagination than using virtual voices. Believe it or not, Audible, your listeners like to connect with the readers. We like to read about them and listen to other books they narrate. Personally, I’m not a fan of being dumbed-downed to by your assumptions that I won’t know the difference. If you don’t care, that’s your choice. But I haven’t read a customer review yet that said, “ that computer really brought life to the story!”. You are taking away the very reason we want to have a book read to us in the first place. Shame on you for thinking you’re better than your customers.

To the Author - I really enjoyed your stories. I kept imagining my favorite readers and how their particular “voice” would have made me want to skip ahead to be sure a character made it through, and then laugh more as they used humor to remind us we’re all glad they did. If Audible uses VV for the “free” or “included with membership “ books, be wary of being labeled “not good enough for a luxury (human)” reader. I don’t know if you’d ever be able to get away from it, even if you are “upgraded” to this newly-created exclusive club.

Intolerable AI reading. A disgrace.

Passable storyline read by AI. Overall a disaster. The AI reads like a badly dubbed 1960’s Japanese monster movie.
And, the added benefit, an actor or other voiceover professional didn’t get work.
It cannot be listened to. You may tolerate it for the first hour or two, but trust me, it will make your ears bleed.

flat

AI isn't there quite yet with the diction but what really sucked was how it seems it was written by a sad choppy AI program as well

AI narration

Virtual narration is flat and lacks human emotion in the voice. It ruins the story. The voice has inflection but it is missing something.