Not bad, not great

Certainly some enjoyable parts to it. But the flashbacks to Amanda get annoying after a while. Also Ripley's voice doesn't suit her character.

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Disappointing

I expected too much of this book and was very disappointed. It is shoe horned into the Alien timeline and regurgitates the same story lines with only a small attempt at originality. I found the narration deeply annoying as the narrator goes up at the end of a sentence, completely destroying any tension in the scene. I do not recommend this book.

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Not bad, not great

Fairly predictable story which felt like it rehashed tropes from the movies rather than create original storylines. The narrators attempts at female voices were jarring too. That said it was entertaining and I did listen through to the end.

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Interesting idea

An interesting idea to have a story between the first two Alien films. The idea as to why Ripley ends up on the Marion is certainly plausible, however I'm not sure the results of this were played out to their complete end.

Ripley's waking nightmares quickly become tiresome and are really just there to provide an excuse for the 'blank slate' result at the end.

The idea of another race and the civilisation of that race was definitely interesting and something I would like to see progressed further, and especially their interactions with the Xenomorphs.

Definitely better than the 'radio play' version.

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Enjoyable, if somewhat limited thriller

The book lived up to expectation but had a constrained ending, taking away some shine

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Good single story, but bad in the bigger story

One of these let's put this in the time line where it does not fit, but we will solve it by making it pointless in the bigger scheme.
Great story that becomes pointless, because it was all just a "dream".

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Brilliant

Fantastic story and well read. I would strongly recommend this for anyone who is a fan of the Alien franchise.

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Great story bad narrator

The story is excellent , unfortunately the narration is appalling... It becomes increasingly difficult to concentrate on the story because of the weird constant upwards inflection, it is so frequent and unnecessary that it becomes a real distraction and impairs enjoyment of the story as a whole. - With another narrator I would have given this 5 stars. If you are a fan of Aliens movies/books this is a good edition to the collection, but due to the irritating voicing it is unlikely to be one you will be drawn to listen to again and again and again. Audible would do well to consider re-recording this with a new voice actor.

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Excellent

Really enjoy it just like watching the films would recommend this to everyone and listen to again

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Bad Narration

I've listened to the prequel to Covenant, Covenant and the original film novel back to back over the last week. The others I've finished in a couple of days each with hours of solid listening, all thoroughly enjoyable even though I'm very familiar with the films they're based on they were still engaging. Not so this abomination. I've had to take a break from it often, sometimes mid chapter. All criticism of the narration is entirely justified. The only aspects punctuating a largely monotone delivery are awful female voices, Ripley (recognised as not just a feminist icon but a brilliant action film protagonist regardless of gender) is reduced to a breathy, girly voice, as are other characters (even a certain male one) and, as others have stated, the horrible upward inflection. This serves only to irritate and distract from the writing itself. Speaking of the writing, much of the story is a repetition of either "he said" or "she said". A randomly selected two minute sample will largely sound as follows: Monotone blaaaahh blaaahh blaaah *sudden upward inflection* blah. "Blah blah" he said, *breathy girly voice* "blah blah blah" she said, "blah blah" he said,"blah blah" she said, "blah" he said, "blah blah" she said. and so forth. The audio drama adaptation helmed by Dirk Maggs, however, is excellent. Get that instead and don't bother with this. I've since removed any other books narrated by Jeff Harding from my wishlist, including the other two in this series.

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