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Title: The Naked God

Subtitle: Night's Dawn, Book 3

Author: Peter F. Hamilton

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 48 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-16

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The third audiobook in the Night's Dawn trilogy, The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton is an epic conclusion to dramatic and compelling series.

The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the possessed to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal does not match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonbridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the kind that hasn't been seen by humankind for 600 years. Then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction....

Joshua Clavert and Syrinx now fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God - which an alien race believes holds the key to finally overthrowing the possessed.

Critic Reviews:

"The trilogy is an amazing piece of artwork, a masterpiece perhaps." (SFReviews.com)

Members Reviews:

Hard To Keep Going

Of course, once you start to read a series of stories such as a trilogy, you really need to see it through. The Night's Dawn trilogy is one of Peter F Hamilton's earlier works recently brought to the audio format having originally been published back in the late 90's. This massive trilogy was penned by Hamilton before his Commonwealth saga and to my mind the Commonwealth saga is a better series of books. The Naked God has been perhaps the longest stab at completing a book I can remember in a long while because it didn't keep me interested long enough to prolong reading to any great degree and so this epic length novel took me about 3 weeks to consume in mostly small 15 or 20 minute morsels. As mentioned in my review of the Neutronium Alchemist, , I feel that the cast of characters Hamilton used in this series was too extensive which slowed the plot down as it often appeared as if proceedings were moving sideways rather than forwards as we dropped in on each of the numerous characters in turn. Hamilton has refined his story telling in the subsequent Commonwealth saga by reducing the number of key characters to a much more manageable quantity which in turn allows things to develop faster and hold the readers interest far more. Again, for the sake of fairness I would like to say that such a long story with a multitude of characters may need to be read in longer sittings in order to allow the reader to absorb more of what's going on so my feeling about this book might be remedied if this approach is adopted. To me, though, The Naked God suffers in the same way as the second in the trilogy did. By far the best in the trilogy is the first, The Reality Dysfunction which held my interest much more and as such I devoured it in longer and fewer sessions. I feel that Hamilton dragged things out over the second two books once he had built a great first act in the series.

Hamilton is a great writer but I think he tried rather too hard with the Night's Dawn trilogy. There was just too much unnecessary narrative which did little for the plot as a whole and only served to mire its pace to the point where I basically lost interest which was a shame. This experience does not colour my views of Hamilton as an author as I have read and greatly enjoyed all of his Commonwealth series .