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A review by jenbsbooks
Mindwar by Andrew Klavan
4.0
3.5 stars. I experienced this as audio ... and this narrator wasn't the best. I may have liked this one better had I read it on my own. While his enunciation was good, there just wasn't a ton of expression. An attempt at some different "voices" but so much of it felt the same. There were shifts in scenes, probably indicated by additional spacing in the print version, that just seemed to flow into each other and I'd be thinking "wait, what just happened?" until I realized there had been a shirt (3rd person, past tense, but different POV as the main character isn't in all the scenes). At one point after our bad guy says something, the text stated "he said in his heavy Russian accent" ... yet there was no accent, not even an attempt. Some audiobook narrators really bring something extra, this one didn't.
As for the story itself ... interesting premise. One that might appeal more to boys (which I'm always on the lookout for, having five boys myself). A star quarterback, excelling at all things video games, entering a game for real to save the world. Completely clean - no language, no sex, some violence, but it seemed quite mild compared to anything else out there. This all did leave it feeling a bit simplistic to me. One "twist" I saw coming a mile away. But hey, I'm giving it a thumbs up and I think I'll check out the sequels.
As for the story itself ... interesting premise. One that might appeal more to boys (which I'm always on the lookout for, having five boys myself). A star quarterback, excelling at all things video games, entering a game for real to save the world. Completely clean - no language, no sex, some violence, but it seemed quite mild compared to anything else out there. This all did leave it feeling a bit simplistic to me. One "twist" I saw coming a mile away. But hey, I'm giving it a thumbs up and I think I'll check out the sequels.