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Shadow Captain

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Summary

 'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation' GUARDIAN

'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' SUN

Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they're about to discover . . .

'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX©2019 Alastair Reynolds (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group Cyberpunk Dystopian Military Science Fiction Fiction Pirate
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Critic reviews

"A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation." (The Guardian)

"A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future." (The Sun)

"A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort." (Daily Telegraph)
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The story is interesting but is far too drawn out.. That said it got interesting towards the end and I’ll probably end up listening to the next one.

Got interesting towards the end

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This tale was difficult to listen to because of the West Country / Mummerset accents imposed on the characters. I can interpret The Archers as well as the next bloke, but the sudden variation in tone an volume throughout dialogue meant continually fiddling with the the volume control. What I could understand of the story made it OK.

Poldark in Space

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It drags more than the exciting first book but still enjoyable. The narration is good apart from one character who makes a wet spit/sniff noise in between every couple of words which is gross to listen to. I nearly forwarded those bits.

Okay.

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May be a bit of an improvement on the first installment of the trilogy still a bit of a YA feel but nonetheless, I enjoyed it

Good suspenseful story

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Stop at revenger its what i wish i had done, slow and laborious. It just feels like a short story with vast amounts of technical filler.

Lackluster follow up

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