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    Invincible
    Invincible
    Invincible
    Audiobook7 hours

    Invincible

    Written by J. L. Beck

    Narrated by Lucy Malone and Sean Crisden

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    About this audiobook

    FBI Agent Devon Mitchell is trying everything he can to move on with his life. Except he can't. After losing the one person he loved more than life itself, he struggles to carry on with the guilt and burden of letting her go.

    When a new assignment in his old hometown lands on his desk, he can't help but feel drawn to it. But this isn't a case he was assigned, but a secret undercover mission that could ruin his career if his cover is blown.

    Tegan Anderson wishes for a normal life. Pushing her way through college, she finds herself in dead end relationship number three-except this time, the guy is into something far more dangerous than your usual twenty-three-year-old is involved in. Drugs, dirty money, and casino debts are just a few things her ex has found himself wrapped up in. When the people he owes money come looking for him, she finds herself in a situation that could be the difference between life and death.Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9781494582579
    Invincible
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    J. L. Beck

    J.L. Beck is a USA Today bestselling author who's written over one-hundred romance novels. One half of the epic writing duo Beck and Hallman, she enjoys sitting with a cup of coffee and a book in hand.

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    • 5/5
      I love her books but the narrators must be picked for the book. He read like he was in a race.
    • 3/5
      In Solaris Lem used the alien encounter scenario common to science fiction literature as a way to explore the human condition. As such, it's one of my favorites. The Invincible doesn't reach such dizzying heights, but it isn't really trying to. Instead it's Lem shooting for enjoyable pulp science fiction and hitting the mark.

      This book is also the story of man interacting with an alien presence on a foreign world. Unlike in Solaris, the other entity isn't presented as truly alien in the sense of being unknowable, instead the other entity at work in The Invincible is eventually "solved" by the crew of experts that come to investigate after the first ship to explore the planet goes silent. Such a solution seems to arise from some analytical leaps that strains credulity, and certain aspects of the entities never come into full focus (the main character's immunity, for example). These are not significant quibbles, I just mention them to throw some light on the difference in approach between this work and Solaris.

      Eventually The Invincible becomes a book about what in essence is a man versus nature adventure story, and it explores the motivations and mindsets of the people that crew interstellar spaceships a bit. It's fun, but nothing particularly special.
    • 1/5
      Pretty dry and more observational than insightful. Very little description of character and excessive description of mechanical aspects. I guess that's a risk with sci-fi. Had potential, but couldn't keep my focus.

      It was one of those books that make you appreciate paragraph breaks. They do make a difference in the rhythm of a book. Many times, I thought, wow what a difference a couple para breaks would make! When I start editing a book that means I'm not into it, but my mind wandered a lot before I came to that realization.
    • 2/5
      "I absolutely hated the first half of this book, but it was partially redeemed by the second half. The first part of the book is a Manly Adventure Story about a ship that lands on an alien planet in order to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a previous ship in the region. An inimical situation makes it very clear that it would be better to just leave, but stubbornness, bravado and machismo mean that they stay. However, the second part of the book makes it very clear that much of the idiocy and arrogance of the characters at the beginning was intentional, on the author's part, and to make a point ABOUT man's idiocy and arrogance... but it was still very flawed.
      A lot of it just didn't make sense. I had a hard time believing, for example, that if manned space flight to other planets was achieved, that technology would be unable to do something like analyze a planet's atmospheric content from within the spaceship, without going outside with no protective gear, holding a manual gadget. I also don't think that, no matter how cooped up a crew was feeling, that they would want to go outside (unprotected) into a totally untested alien environment, knowing that another crew had never returned from the same place...
      What I also felt was a flaw is that, although this IS a book about Men, there is no acknowledgment anywhere in the book that females even EXIST, which was just weird.
      However, I'm going to give the book a free pass on the language and writing style, because the translation was just awful - the phrasing was consistently awkward, and there were definitely examples of the wrong word completely being used - like "Alarmed" instead of "Alerted." A note at the front of the book says that this edition was translated from German. The book was written in Polish. Why one would translate from a translation is a little mystifying to me, and after this literary game of 'telephone' I really can't say even if what I read resembled the original story much at all!

      I'll remain open to giving another of Lem's books a try!