Read The Magitech Chronicles Quadrilogy Magitech Chronicles Books 14 Audible Audio Edition Chris Fox Ryan Kennard Burke Christopher T Fox Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 34 hours and 38 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Christopher T Fox Audible.com Release Date January 18, 2019 Language English, English ASIN B07MTJG729

The Magitech Chronicles Quadrilogy Magitech Chronicles Books 14 Audible Audio Edition Chris Fox Ryan Kennard Burke Christopher T Fox Books Reviews

• This series is just one dark mess.
  The books are filled with inconsistencies. In book 2 there is a chapter that seems to have been taken out of the timeline of the previous and following chapters. In another storyline Aran is trained, then goes on to fight battles and then is said to be lacking fitness when he goes to a dojo. Aran can fly against dragons and not get zapped, but can’t outfly a fighter piloted by a mortal. The Voria character is a total mess. Is she a leader or not? The other members of the crew are equally messed up.
  The author seems to have absolutely no military experience. And just seems to base his military writing on what he picked up on some b-rate TV show. How is a “Private” an officer?
  Everyone in this series seems to be enslaved in one way or another. And they all seem to be jumping for joy because of it. Seems like slavery is brought to a whole new level in this series. And at times, the author seems to try and justify it.
  The “gods” in this series seem to be nothing more that over powered magic users, whose influence does not even cover the galaxy. Yet the author keeps inserting “the universe” into descriptions of how powerful they are supposed to be.
  There are times when I’ve felt that this series was actually written by a number of different people who don’t really communicate well with each other and the group lacks an overall plan. Sort of like a D&D group with a GM, where all of them are writing a story and Penny just wants to kill her character so that she can go get a drink.
• The Magitech Chronicles is one of my favorite space fantasy series. Chris is continually outdoing himself with the creativity and worldbuilding and scope of events that he builds into each installment. If you've ever wondered what it would look like to have dragons and magic mixed with spaceships and modern technology, this is the series for you. Having the first four books all together in one omnibus is a fantastic value.
• I think this is the first time I've read anything with Dragons and Magic and Outer space and wars...though I might be mistaken...story moves along pretty quickly, but keeping track of all the spells, and 'spellrifles' and whatnot is a bit taxing.
  I finished the first of the four stories in the set...I'll keep going to the end.....
• The narrator was very good. He has some really great voices, good tempo and vocal inflections, and I love it when narrators vocalize the small sounds like laughter and whistles.
  
  All four stories included in this set are very good and skillfully written.
  
  The characters are very individual with their own quirks, and I love that the author didn't bombard me with pages of Backstory right at the start.
  
  I have four major detractors that kept this from being a 5-star read (the first one is vastly more pronounced in book one, though it continues to be present in later books).
  
  1, significant portions of the dialogue are simply atrocious. Listening to it, I couldn't help thinking, really? Are you serious? Especially with the way the Dragons speak.
  
  2, length. Each book is only about 8 to 8-1/2 hours in length. Which is fine in heroic fantasy or other fantasies with relatively low stakes or scope. But with a story this expansive, I would have liked to see much longer books to really do justice to the stories. As they are written, many parts feel skipped over or rushed. Had the author spent twice the time (or even half again), the stories would have felt a lot more complete and far more immersive.
  
  3, I just cannot suspend disbelief when I'm expected to swallow that a dragon can be a one-hit-wonder. I don't care how powerful the magic is, nothing short of a god (or a Dragonlance) should be able to kill a dragon in a single attack.
  
  And 4, unless it's litRPG (which this book is not), then I just can't take you seriously when characters are referring to spells by level (as in, "normally he couldn't cast a third level spell"). Now, I admit that in the military the relative power of a weapon very well may be denoted by a "level" but in this context I just can't take it seriously.
  
  All that said, I really enjoyed these books. I love the way the characters develop and the way the characterization and backstories are slowly revealed over the course of the books.
  
  I'm definitely going to be picking up further books in this series. Hopefully book six will be released in audio soon.
• Awesome story, a few obvious logic holes, be prepared to be hit in the face with many blatant plot devices.
  
  Interesting and fairly unique setting, main characters are well developed and interesting / relatable. Most other characters tend to be 1/2d in nature.
  
  Minor gripe for (current price), $0.99, but a VERY noticable number of spelling and grammar errors...
• The pacing across the first three is horrible, the setting has an unbalanced feel, the growth of the characters is all over the place, and the characters themselves just feel too artificial. That said, if you get the audio book version the narrator helps make things more tolerable, and the flaws start to even out by the time you make it to the fourth book of the quadrilogy, at least enough that I'm interested in listening to book 5, and that's the point a lot of promising series have either lost my interest or start to lose it. If it weren't for needing the background information gained from the first three I'd recommend skipping them entirely, but then nothing would make any sense.
• Love this series! Can't wait for the next book! It's easy to read, humorous, and has tech, magic, gods....I mean what else does a total geek want?!
  
  It's also very easy to read. I'm a relatively fast reader but was surprised how fast I got through the first 5 books. I find I actually appreciate it as I have limited time to read anymore. I used to binge read Tolkien every year for a decade and was happy if I could read all his works in a week...(glad I grew out of that haha).
  
  I'm anctiously waiting for the next book. This series is one I could see myself rereading.