Great story; horrible narrator

Ben Shapiro's first novel was engaging and well written. Here's hoping there is a sequel in the works. Unfortunately, the narrator is one of the worst I've heard. Character portrayals were average but his voice when serving as the narrator was awful and distracting.

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Good story, but

I stopped listening to the book several times as I found it difficult listening to the narrator's voice. In my humble opinion it is better suited for a children's book.

That said I look forward to the next book, hopefully with a different narrator.

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Gripping story, intriguing perspective!

Super interesting. A little bit of rated R language, and a whole lot of rated R liberals just being liberal buffoonery.

Narration was excellent. Great characterization and delivery. This book was a real treat. If Shapiro keeps this up, I will likely read every word he has ever written. This was my first exposure to him outside of YouTube and I was positively delighted! Keep 'me coming Ben!

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True Allegiance? More like True Nonsense.

The books simple yet convoluted story would be fine if it was written by a high school senior for an creative writing project. Ben shows no understanding for middle eastern culture, and his prejudice towards people of middle eastern heritage is loud and clear.
His character structure is weak, and none of them show and signs of development.

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Bad story, bad Brad Thor ripoff, the worst narrator I have ever heard

I have a lot of respect for Ben Shapiro. He is a strong conservative voice and a superb debater. He is not a fiction writer. This drivel is a Brad Thor ripoff taken to the most dramatic degree. As a scare tactic, maybe the book is effective. As a captivating story, it is decidedly not effective. The characters are so one dimensional in terms of their morality and ethics that I was actually reminded of Ayn Rand's characters. Don't read this book.

As if it couldn't get any worse, the narrator of this book is completely unlistenable. I'll grant that he didn't have much to work with but at times his incompetence actually overshadowed the dreadfulness he was reading.

Please spare us the sequel. The cash grabs Ben Shapiro does on college campuses are bad enough. His fiction writing is plain criminal.

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Like Ben. This book, not so much.

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I like this genre of story, so I took a chance on what was for me an unknown author. I'm familiar with Ben from his show and his speeches on campus. I like him and his viewpoint a lot.

The writing was just OK. The story slightly less so. The characters were not real, but sort of cartoonish. But, I could be wrong about the writing. It was virtually impossible to evaluate through the AWFUL narration.

Every so often I would think that the narration was computer generated, but then the narrator would place the inflection on a word that not even a poor algorithm would choose. It was very distracting.

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Doubtful @ 5 minutes, stopped listening at 45.

With lots of special effects it could make 'another one of those movies', but as a book it is a disappointment to me. Ben Shapiro is brilliant, insightful, a tenacious bull dog in real life. He is a hero. But his fiction is not up to those high standards. And where is the editing? Consistency, story line, plot, narrative. Way too much narrative for background in the middle of improbable action scenes. Narrator didn't have a terrific script to work with, and couldn't make it anything better.
I returned the book for credit.

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Overall good read.

I like the content. Although it was a little hard to follow at times due to the robotic sounding narration.

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Awful Narration

Seriously. Where do they get some of these narrators? (Slow down! Maybe try for just a LITTLE variety in your inflection every once In a while? Take a breath now and then, at the very least!).

And then the story: predictable mellow drama. Can't believe I fell for the description.

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Sophomoric tripe

Terrible dialogue between characters. Juvenile, unbelievable storyline. Hackneyed plot points. Doomsday fantasy story so farcical it laughable.

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