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  • Trading in Danger

  • Vatta's War, Book 1
  • By: Elizabeth Moon
  • Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
  • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (150 ratings)
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Trading in Danger

By: Elizabeth Moon
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
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Summary

The first of the acclaimed Vatta's War books, the exciting military science fiction series that features a swashbuckling spaceship-captain heroine who mixes commerce with combat.
©2004 Elizabeth Moon (P)2008 Tantor

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    3 out of 5 stars

Good book - read badly

I have previously read this book and enjoyed it. However I felt the reader for this audio is not good at all. Sounds stilted and hardly any good inflection. Her heavy American accent really gets in the way.

I still liked the story though.

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Enjoyable sci fi

Good well written sci fi adventure,with a female lead character. I also found the narrator difficult to listen to and almost didn't download the book because of that,but found that I did get used to her style,and that the book was gripping enough to carry me past it.I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of the series.

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    5 out of 5 stars

A great space adventure !!

I was first introduced to Elizabeth Moons' Vatta War series when I got hold of a copy of the second book in the series, purely by accident. I read it and loved it. So I decided to start reading again from the first book and I'm glad I did.

Its a brilliant story, and gives a nice believable insight into a life in space which lots of sci-fi fans love so much. The one thing I like about this story is that it doesn't try to stick with combat all the time. (I've read the second book and it does have more combat in it, but its paced and not overdone.) I must admit I do like the boring details, i.e. docking procedure, trading etc.

There has been some critisism on the narration style. Personally, I like it. Cynthia Holloway does have a heavy accent, and a reading style that can seem robotic, but its clear and easy to follow. She manages to convey the emotion and characters really well.

Definitley a good sci-fi story and I really do recommend it. !!!

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Narrator no good

Did not enjoy the narrator and I struggled to finish, not sure if it's the story or just the narrator

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Good story, bad reading

As the headline says. the story is good, but almost ruined by the reading. She makes the main caracter sound like an idiot.

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Struggling with the narrator ...

I can't comment on the story or the quality of the writing because, for me, this is unlistenable. The narrator's voice grates on me, she puts odd inflections at the end of words and mid sentence, and sometimes almost sounds computer generated, in that she doesn't have a natural sounding rhythm of speech pattern.

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Frustrating narration

I liked the concept. Moon’s typically high quality writing shines despite the poor narration, but there are a few moments where it gets too bogged down in details.

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Great story, terrible narration.

The book is really first class space opera that lays the groundwork for an equally great series. One I recommend to others in spite of the narration.

The downside is that the narration is really quite horrible running from borderline monotonous for general storytelling to awkward and nasal sounding for attempted accents and that is before we get to the occasional mispronunciations that usually strike at the worst moment.

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Brilliant entertainment

I have lost count of how many times I have read these books but listening to them has taken them to a whole new level. The narrator brings all of the characters to life and the authors work is shown at its best.
Brilliant narration.
Highly recommended

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Good start

Good start to a series. I will definitely continue to read.




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