Great story, Bad Narration,

This really is an excellent book and continuation of the series. but mispronouncing important words along with male voices sounding like old women completely threw off my immersion into the story I would suggest buying the Kindle book version of this and skip the audiobook.

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Polygamy? Homosexuality? Why?

The plot of this book is not very exciting. There was potential for some good things to happen but nothing remarkable ever developed.

I love the Starships Mage Universe. The magic, simulacrum chamber, space travel, government themes are rich. Those ideas give this universe the potential to compete with the big stars in the space race, Star Wars and Star Trek.
One problem is that the writer is limited by political interests. Glynn Stewart never fails to sprinkle in homosexuality, and in this book he adds polygamy. Neither of these adds anything to the story. The attempt is to make it seem natural by casually making a character here or there homosexual but nothing is gained by these additions. It disrupts the flow of the book if anything.

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I love Glynn Stewart but..,

I love Glynn Stewart and enjoyed Hillary Huber in the Duchess series. However this reading and this story are NOT a good match. I am not sure if it is the story or the reader. I want to enjoy it but don’t. Wish I had spent my credit on something else.

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Another great story in the series, bad narrator.

Would you listen to Mage-Provocateur again? Why?

yes, but it would not be my first choice.

Would you be willing to try another one of Hillary Huber’s performances?

For a non-fiction book, yes. She can't handle male voices well, everything else is fine but she doesn't do a good quality male voice.

Any additional comments?

The third book should have a different narrator. The entire trilogy should have a different narrator. Jeffrey Kafer is a better narrator.

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Narrator ruined this book for me

The narrator mispronounced many world's names that have been in the books from the beginning. It's almost as if she never listened to any of the other books. Also the unarcana world's in the book are pronounced un-are-can-a. just can't even enjoy it.

I know the book is from the perspective of a lady but her range of voices are few. The narrator only sounds as if she is normal, sick, or happy. It has many of the same characters from the first book so I'm just disappointed in the change. :(

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Worst narration ever

Compared to the last book narrated by Ian Gordon this book is terrible and the poor narration ruins the story. Maybe it can be re-done so I can finish the book?

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PLEASE learn how things are pronounced!

God... please do the basic work of learning what the established pronunciation of words/names is when you start voicing an ongoing series that already has multiple books. EVERY SINGLE TIME Legatus was said I wanted to just kill the book and refund, especially when it comes up many times in a paragraph and just grinds the whole time.

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finally

Stewart finally picked a good reader. if you have been reading instead of listening because his choaen narrators were aso bad, now is your chance to get the audiobook. Huber does a good job narrating this story and I finally got to really enjoy a Starship Mage book.

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Mage-provocateur: Starships mage

Okay wasn't feeling this one mainly because the main protagonist wasn't even in this book . This was about Damian 's old crew plus there was a two year or more time skip a whole bunch of new characters I just couldn't connect with anyone in this book . I liked the crew but not enough to read about them without the main character . This book just wasn't a exciting as the first one . Here's hoping that the next book will be better .

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Captain Rice is in trouble again!

Great Audio! The Narrator is capable in bring forth emotion. I found the story to be captivating.

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