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Title: Hell's Gate
Subtitle: Multiverse, Book 1
Author: David Weber, Linda Evans
Narrator: Mark Boyett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 37 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-08-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 302 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
They thought they knew how the universes worked. They were wrong!
In the almost two centuries since the discovery of the first interuniversal portal, Arcana has explored scores of other worlds - all of them duplicates of their own. Multiple Earths, virgin planets with a twist, because the ''explorers'' already know where to find all of their vast, untapped natural resources. Worlds beyond worlds, effectively infinite living space and mineral wealth. And in all that time, they have never encountered another intelligent species. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations, and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards.
But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind...and wizards who go by the strange title of ''scientist''.
Members Reviews:
we'll get there...eventually.
inter dimensional combat between two totally different civilizations. awesome! But first...Let's talk about the three major religions of one of the civilizations, since the 12 different factions from that civilization will need to form One government, we'll need to go in depth into their religious beliefs.
do you know that person that gets sidetracked while telling you a story? that is this for 32 hours. as Bill Cosby used to say, "I told you that story to tell you this story."
It's a pretty good story. It feels like the author has seen these two worlds and wants to tell us all about them. unfortunately, he only focuses on one of the worlds in this book. maybe the next book focuses on the other world. I'll never know.
next time
Too much information. Hard to follow story line. Mark Boyett is one of my favorite narrators and even he couldn't keep my attention.
So much narrative. Show, don't tell. Balance.
The authors live to hear themselves write. Hell's Gate overflows with narrative, with little dialog and action. Whole chapters ooze by with exhaustive narrative, telling us everything that happens and everything that is thought. There's long, long passages telling us about the exhausting multiple worlds. There's little dialog to let us connect with the characters.
This flood of words leaves me drowning in details about the multiple worlds, confused by the made up words and never-ending details that add facts, not information.
Sorry Mark wasted his time narrating this one
This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Linda Evans
Has Hell's Gate turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, I have other David Weber Books, I know that with 20 books a year he has to have help putting them out..
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
The detail about every thing was great. It's to bad it was about things that didn't matter. There was a whole chapter in detail about a horse that you never saw again.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Hell's Gate?
This book should have been abridged.
Good story but repetitive and slow moving
I liked the main characters and how their personalities were developed, I was very disappointed for how repetitive this book was. The plot was extremely slow.