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Alien: Isolation

By: Keith R.A. DeCandido
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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Summary

The action-packed official adaptation of Alien: Isolation and a revealing look into the lives of Ellen Ripley and her daughter, Amanda Ripley.

The product of a troubled and violent youth, Amanda Ripley is hellbent to discover what happened to her missing mother, Ellen Ripley. She accepts an assignment with a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the Nostromo flight recorder from space station Sevastopol, which they find out of control due to a Xenomorph that was brought there with the recorder. A conspiracy unfolds, revealing ever greater threats - including an entire Xenomorph hive. Over the course of the novel, Amanda’s history is revealed beginning with her childhood. Her father Alex’s battle with alcoholism caused her mother, Ellen Ripley, to sue for divorce. Ellen was forced to take off-world assignments, ultimately leading to her assignment aboard the Nostromo. Left behind, Amanda became determined to find out what happened to her mother, learning more and more about Ellen and the events that led up to her disappearance. Along the way, Amanda develops a fast friendship with Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks (from the Alien: Defiance Dark Horse series). 

©2019 Keith R. A. DeCandido (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Good adaptation, but game is far better!!!

I enjoyed this as a companion book - it moves Amanda's role in the expanded universe into a more accessible platform than just the gaming, but it just doesn't do the game justice!

Story is good and fleshes out Amanda's history more, which is nice. Narration is good overall. Dialogue is a bit clumsy, with over the top, unnecessary swearing - at times, it's like listening to a group of young teenagers who have just learnt a new "naughty word"! 🤣
Don't get me wrong, I swear all the time, but it feels like it's thrown in there just for the sake of it.

When the game was coming out, I was so worried; I thought the whole concept that Ripley's daughter also encountered the xenomorphs was absolute heracy! Then I played it - the story is great and fits well with the movies, and you actually experience the story.

If you are not a gamer, listen to this book, it's enjoyable and ties neatly into the movie lore. However, I think many will say it was an unnecessary addition and not get why it was ever made - you have to play the game to understand why Isolation is a key chapter in the Alien story.

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Inexplicable encoding choices at Audible.

This book is encoded 128kbps for a single-voice mono production with no music or sound effects resulting in a file that nearly HALF A GIGABYTE. And yet... Alien: River of Pain and Alien: Out of the Shadows, both full-cast stereo with both music and sound effects languish at 64kbps and sound dreadful.

I have tried complaining to Audible about this to be met with complete indifference or worse still, insistence that 64kbps is adequate for that type of content.

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Terrible

The most boring Aliens story yet. Nothing happens, zero tension, pointless flash backs. Don’t bother

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Pretty disappointing

The main character is one big cliché. The "vulnerable, far too clever but plucky heroine" who despite the odds braves the aliens while having flashbacks about abandonment "Mommy... noooo..." got tedious really quickly. This is just lazy writing.
The narration on the other hand was ok - Sarah did a pretty good job given the terrible material she had to work with.

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Top notch

Sarah Mollo -christensen was exceptional reading the story of the excellent game inspired Alien isolation. With added back story the book matches the intensity of the movies. And is as well written as Alan Dean Foster's novelisations

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Any story with the Alien badge stuck on!

I was waiting for this to get going but it never did. Apart from a few references this didn't feel like a book in the Alien Franchise let alone Alien Isolation. The voice actor was quite good, making male voices believable. All too often some male actors try to pull off a female voice and it sounds horrendous! This however was fairly good, but the narration part of the reading came across a bit flat, stale with no emotion.

The story was pretty bland, I thought it could have been a generic story about a young girl with a childhood troubles. For some strange reason most of the men in her life were either dumb or arseholes, quite a one dimensional narrative with some references to Alien Isolation tacked on in places.

It really didn't feel like an Alien story at all.

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Awesome book and cliff hanger ending

A great story gripping throughout please make a second part. This is really awesome. Great characters and similar agendas as the movie

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hard listen

The voice acting sounds like its only a guy and girl narrating all the characters, sometimes the character voices sound similar so it can get a tad confusing to which characters are in the scene if you pause or take a break from the book.

found myself getting frustrated at various parts as Amanda is a dreadful character, a literal nightmare who is really difficult to relate too and i found myself relating to the alien wanting to kill her the more i listened.


i was glad when the book finished. worst I've listened to.

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Excessive Expletive Language.

I've played the game from which this is based and loved it. being a fan of the franchise I've read many of the books.

However only 17min into the Audio I'm tired of the profanity. The occasional expletives can be understandable in a tense scene, but to have it as almost constant dialogue is indicative of very poor and unimaginative writing.

the voice acting and performance are great. but not everyone can enjoy such content when it's profane. so I do not recommend it.

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Preachy and plodding

Managed a couple of hours in before I got bored of the author moaning on about how poor everyone was and how how unfair life was to the characters.

Sure, blue collar average Joe's vs the soulless white collar corporatists has been in Alien since day one, buy it just came across as preachy and heavy handed, more like a middle class, uni graduate, champaign socialist's fantasy of how working class people behave and think. very disappointing given how great the source material is.

Watch a YouTube let's play instead if you want the story.

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