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Rent The Precipice (The Asteroid Wars) (The Grand Tour)
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Narrator: Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Feb 2005
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - High Tech
Retail Price: $44.95
Discs: 10
Synopsis
In this, the first volume of the Asteroid Wars series, two industrialists--one out for personal gain and the other trying to save the dangerously resource-depleted Earth--find their goals dovetailing as they attempt to reach an asteroid belt that may hold the answer to both of their dreams.
Reviews
If you don't mind listening to 10 disks of narration only to find that you are no more than half way through the story, you might enjoy this one. This book practically has a 'to be continued' sign at the end of the last disk. The hero is dead and nothing is resolved. It probably deserves only two stars, but I have to admit that I did get caught up in it enough to want to find out what happens in the end - and I still want to find out what will happen in the end. Since BookFree will probably send you several other books before they send you Volume II and several more before Volume III (or, even worse, they may send them out of order which would ruin it) I would urge you to stay away from this trilogy. Another oddity: there are 3 narrators, but they're not ***igned certain voices, they just take turns at reading the chapters, so the same character is heard with three very different versions of a Texas accent.