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  • Antecedents' Legacy, Book 1
  • Written by: Daniel Schinhofen
  • Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
  • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Antecedents' Legacy

Written by: Daniel Schinhofen
Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
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Publisher's Summary

Zander Greaves grew up in Compton, California—violence, pain, and strife were his life for his first eighteen years.

His personality was forged by his childhood, and he was determined to find a way to make his past work for him.

As soon as he could, Zander decided to find work as a military contractor. The company he’d badgered for a job eventually hired him, earning him the nickname “Badger.” While most people dropped out of the lifestyle after a few years, Zander had found a place that felt right to him.

A decade in, he’d even found a couple of friends who stayed on with him. One was Devin Smith, the heavy weapons specialist for the squad and a proud Texan. Another was Selda Engel, their tech specialist. She’d slowly transitioned from a friend to a friend-with-benefits, but even that had started to become more.

On rotation again, Zander made a vow to ask Selda to recognize their relationship as more than just a casual hookup, planning to do so as soon as they were back off schedule. The universe, however, was about to remind him of a crucial lesson and old adage: “Life is what happens when you’re busy making plans.” Sent out into the desert on what looked like a wild goose chase, they were about to head back when everything changed.

Shifted by quantum entanglement from Earth to an alien planet, Zander and his squad would have to adapt—and quickly—if they wanted to live. As they tried to understand what was happening, the stark truth of their new reality thrust itself on the shaken humans. Giant machines of war were attacking an equally humongous bug.

And, quite unfortunately, the giant bug had a lot of little friends. The ensuing firefight ended with Zander left as the sole human survivor. Out of his dimension and wounded, he had to face an entirely new universe, and the Antecedents' Legacy would soon become the primary focus of his life.

©2023 Daniel Schinhofen (P)2023 Podium Audio

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  • 2023-09-11

Profoundly Hormonal

On the face of it this seems like an interesting concept and it in fact is. However the story is written as if by a teenager. Profoundly horny, distractingly voiced by a female which isn’t normally an issue for me as this narrator is in my top 10, but the main character is a horny male and it is disturbing when voiced by a woman. On one hand the MC has gone through some deeply disturbing and traumatic events, on the other he can’t help but objectify every female character on the ship. Somehow they are all alien but all extremely attractive. So one moment the MC is mourning the loss of the love of his life who had died in front of him just hours to a few days ago, and the next he is trying to figure out if he will fit into the hollow in the back of a 7’ tall alien who just wants to show him a good time (yes, process that if you can), Of course because of his trauma he is experiencing “hard times”, and I mean that in the way you probably think I mean…that’s how bad this book is. No one is a real character, Just a collection of screwable parts. I am sorry for the overt nature of my critique, but I am trying to help people intuit what kind of a book this is because the description absolutely does not relay the overt sexuality in this book.

I’m not trying to be puritanical, sexuality has its place in the written word I suppose, but when an author writes a character who is non-binary who only has a sex once they choose their gender, you think OK, maybe in some strange way we can get through one block of text with at least one character without delving into the mind of a teenager since even nude, “they” have no sexual organs. The answer was nope. Somehow even this character would orgasm when exposed to violence.

This is not my type of book clearly, I found it on a top 10 list of LitRPG and fantasy books…it was ranked very high and had a few books in the series. Clearly this is aimed at the same audience as those Dorian Grey fans…just transposing exceedingly sexual overtones onto a Mech Shooter + Nano tech Ai + evil enemy. I thought it would equal at least a good time until the overt sexuality became it’s own exceedingly awkward character, but after trying my best to push through in hopes the story got a bit more serious or less creepy and actually led to levelling up some skills and venturing into a broader alien universe…I quit. I couldn’t get past half and it’s a write off. I’ll never get that time back…how do I wash my brain with soap?

You can only watch a MC go from weeping openly about the love of his life to leering at the female captain wearing what must be a comically over tight uniform…you can’t be fricking serious. Ya…the author is series.

The narration is awkward. The constant giggling of the MC is honestly distracting, the male MC being voiced by a woman isn’t the biggest problem with this book, not by a long shot, but I could never accept the voice and move past it because it was one Thousand and ten percent New York/maybe slight Boston butch taken to such a comical level as if in overcompensation by the one voicing it. Between Butch overdrive and constant giggling + overt sexuality it’s a cringe fest.

Regardless of my feelings about the MC voicing, the narrator is clearly talented. I get why with all of the sexy aliens a female narrator was used but the constant presence of the MC works against the narrator to the point of distraction. But you try…that’s all you can do.

Don’t get me started on the slime based alien who “wants a sample”. Wherever your mind wanders first is probably exactly what you think they mean by “sample”.

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I'm sorry but it seems the author has never actually loved anyone. it would be one thing if they were friends with benefits but he loved her and then 5 mins later he let's an ai pretend to be her. this is poorly written. I tried to give it another chance several times, but I'm actually going to not finish this and return it.

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