Girl Gone Nova

Establishes A Few Bits of Interesting Sci-fi

*This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.*

With an under a 3 hour run-time this short story created a light fun earth tour ride involving a spoiled princess with the universe ending exploding power. I went in knowing it wasn't going to have enough time to fully flesh out the characters story arc but I still highly enjoyed it. There's 30+ short chapters that move the story along, world build, or simply develop one of the few characters. The tone was never overly serious and that was the right choice here. You have characters easily cursing like sailors and those humorous as intended.

Our Cast:
Our MC Guillermo is a cool collected experienced handler that typically deals with spoiled rich kids but he seems to be able to handle himself in all kinds of situations. He's cool headed UNTIL he meets our red skinned princess.

Kaiveli - The princess is spoiled, demanding, and short tempered. Her meeting someone like Guillermo who stands up to her but also tries to please her gives her pause to change even just a bit. Her rendition on the front cover instantly grabbed me.

Teddy - You have snarky AI's in a lot of Sci-fi stories but Teddy is upfront murderous. The contrast of a teddy bear to a outright hostile princess protector was a nice touch. You can see the change in his attitude towards Guillermo in the last bit, growth is there but light. Teddy grew on me quickly.

Narration: Shannon Vendemmia did a good job with distinct voices for enough of the characters. This is always an important factor in narration and I'm glad in how it was handled. Clean and easily understandable.

Everything happens lightning quick so as long as you keep that in mind I could see you enjoying this bite size short. Strong language and one adult situation.

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Good Short Story That Could Be Expanded Upon

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
Girl Gone Nova was a really good short story, although it ended somewhat abruptly. The concept of a spoiled brat princess isn’t necessarily unique but the sci-fi aspect that she’ll unintentionally blow up a universe if she gets upset is something new. I’d like to see this book expanded upon or sequels be made in this universe as there’s not much room to explore in the span of just over two hours. I was really intrigued by the world the author built and it sounded like there was a lot more to this universe than just the portion we were given a glimpse of in this novella.
Overall this was a really good short story that I’d listen to again with a group on a short drive. If there are sequels released I’d definitely be interested in checking them out. I think there is a lot of room for character growth and world building.
I thought the narrator was good, she did accents and changed tone for the characters, but the audio was a bit off. It sounded like there was an echo as if this was recorded on an omni-directional microphone in an open room. Since it was only a short story I was able to deal with this but in the future I’d suggest they adjust their microphone settings.

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Interesting!

Interesting book! The only strange part for me was the robot teddy bear! Cool story and great narrator!!! Would love to listen to another book by this narrator.

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Good, quick read.

First, I have to start off by stating that I got this book free of charge in exchange for a review, but as I always state, this does not in any way impact my review. My reviews are always honest and my own.

I enjoyed the mini book. I would have liked it to be longer so we can really experience the fullness of the novel.

good listen

kind of short but overall story was enjoyable. the narration quality was not top notch but narrator did a good job. I thought she did an excellent job doing the voice of the man.

A brief adventure in space

Here we have a short story of a handler/bodyguard "to the stars," summoned to attend to an alien princess who is analogous to children of rich people here on Earth. It's a fun, light listen, but be aware there's a brief sex scene that might be embarrassing to be caught listening to at one point. Be aware there's not much character development, though, which I feel is ok for a short story.
The narrator puts a lot of effort into making each character distinct, but the recording quality isn't the best. At some points it makes the narrator sound quite harsh, which was a bit of a bummer.
My favorite character is the robotic teddy bear that has an obvious disdain for humans.
Overall, it's a good listen. This is my third book from this author that I've enjoyed, and I'll continue to check his writings out
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

No Real Character Growth

I received this book for free. I am voluntarily leaving this review and all opinions expressed herein are mine.

Here, an alien princess arrives on Earth and is provided with a handler to cater to all of her whims.

I thought/hoped that this was going to be a fun or sarcastic social commentary but it is not. Instead there is a superficial narcissistic princess who has desires like an out of control toddler - sort of like Veruca Salt on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [I want the goose who laid the golden egg and I want it now.] She asks for hurricanes, pyramids, the crown jewels, etc. and is never denied. Unfortunately, for me, while I believed there would be growth, change in her character - there really wasn't and it became too much of the same note.

Other reviewers expressed problems with the audio, I did not hear any. I thought the narrator did a good job, provided voices for the different characters and kept a good pace.

Just ok

while I enjoyed the book, after reading the PinkiePie book from this author I expected more.

it may have been the performance but the various characters to some degree seemed interchangeable (except Teddy)

I'll skip the rest of this series but not the author.

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Short Story but Good

This is a short story and, as such can’t delve deeply in character development the same way a book can. Then again, you’re not spending as much. I requested this from the author with the agreement that I would review it.
The narration is good, but I must mention that the recording quality isn’t. It sounds like it was recorded in a tunnel.
Bottom line: It is a fun, quick read.

Wonderful Narrator

The narrator was wonderful and full of life. The story was unique and interestingly different.

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