But for me, the female narrator’s voice grated and the teen type of story isn’t my chosen genre. Worth a credit? This is the next generation from Rina Kent’s Royal Elite series and, for fans who followed those High School/bully romances, then I’m sure you’re gonna absolutely love these. but this didn’t pull me in at all and I stopped listening by chapter 9. I love a good dark romance as well as the twisted, dark, alpha, anti heroes that go along with them. To cast Sebastian York’s rich, very adult voice off as a troubled nineteen year old psycho School teen is laughable (the heroine is also nineteen) and I didn’t even get to Aaron or Wen’s characters who, presumably will also be nineteen. unfortunately though, I didn’t make it too far into the story because of the content and the YA theme. The female narrator here (IMO) can’t do a realistic male voice. however, on a preorder, you don’t get a chance to listen to the narration. I’d preordered this because of the book’s tempting dark blurb and the cast of male narrators.
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There are plenty of other scifi novels and collections that are just as if not more well regarded that do not have such heinous opinions about women in them. And the rest of the stories just treat women like utter shit. The title story shames it's lone female character for being raped and victimized by the other protagonists and another story focuses around the idea that a woman is pathetic because she "lets" one of her shipmates rape her. I don't care about how meaningful the social commentary in it is. I don't care if you really liked the game. I don't care if it's considered a classic of scifi. Whaaaaat?) I am going to reduce the rating I gave it from three to two stars and put this big red disclaimer on here: Don't read this. So while I'm gonna leave this review as I wrote it, (It's seriously weird to me that this throwaway review I wrote years ago still gets likes and is apparently the highest rated review of this collection. 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