Interesting sci-fi looking for a new home.

An interesting sci-fi story set in a bleak further near lifeless earth. The story focus on the main characters life in that world and then their attempt to find a better one.

The story is well written and well paced. The characters are relatable but have been clearly hardened and learnt self discipline living in such a hash world. This seems to leave them to just get on with things when bad things happen being far less emotional than people form today. This may make the characters less engaging to some listeners.

The narration is good, easy to listen to and each character is granted a unique voice. The recording quality is fine and the only errors I noticed were a few lines that were repeated.

All in all an interesting listen and I want to know what happens next.

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

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Great Scifi

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The first book that I listen to by this author was the trailblazer. I really liked that book and wanted to know what is going to happen next.
The people of earth (or what's left of them) live in Dome 17. However it is failing so they come up with the idea of sending 7 ships to 7 colony ships that left earth a hundred years ago.
Cammarry and Jerome are sent to the Conestoga. The trailblazer was another colony ship that a ship was sent too. The beginning start off sort of the same as the trailblazer but from Cammarry and Jerome's POV.
I found this book to be a little more slower then the other two in the series or the trailblazer, but it sets the scene of what is going to happen next.
The narrator I did not like. I believe she is not suited for this type of genre. I felt she didn't give anything towards this story. This might be why I also found the book slow.

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Cubie blue knows what to do.

The first in a new quest to save the last remnants of humanity on Earth in John Thornton's Colony Ship universe. This time the story follows Jerome, Cammarry and their AI, Sandie, as their scout ship heads for the old Colony Ship, Conestoga. The last message received at Dome 17 seemed to indicate that it had located a possibly habitable planet. With the life expectancy of Dome 17 now estimated at only 100+ days, if a teleportation platform could be built on the planet, or even in the old Colony Ship, the last of Earth's survivors could escape their deadly planet. But first the Conestoga had to be found.

The initial section of the book is again dedicated to the days in Dome 17 leading up to the hasty despatch of light speed scout ships, each with just two brave travellers, in search of the ancient Colony Ships sent out over an hundred years before to look for a new life for it's human cargo. The happenings in Dome 17 are again reprised, but this time from the point of view of Cammarry and Jerome, giving the reader a new insight into what actually was happening there - a fascinating addition to the series as a whole.

Erin Macdonald's narration, with good articulation, fast paced reading and distinctive character voices, is sadly marred by the dreadfully unpleasant rendering of the AI, Sandie. So little-girlie grating, it made the computer sound imbecilic and made it very difficult for this listener to continue. A great pity as, without this, both story and narration were good.

This is a fun series which becomes addictive. I am glad to see that a different narrator reads book 2 of the Conestoga series.

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Good story.

Great story a different pace to what I would normally listen to but great all the same.

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