Andrin’s Paradox 1-2 (Sarisart 1-2) - C.J. Boyle

Written by C.J. Boyle
Read by C.J. Boyle
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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Length: 14:55

Book 1 ● Sarisart 1 ● 5:35

A special forces troop and an ordinary woman are transported to another planet through a wormhole forcing them to work together to survive. Imagine being forced onto a plane by a bunch of mercenaries and then crash-landing on another planet. That is what happened to Sara Newman and it was all thanks to her father and an alien named Andrin. After they crashed it became obvious that they were on another planet when they saw two suns in the sky. It made it incredibly hot during the day. First and foremost, they needed to survive. They had to find shelter and they had to do it fast. The planet seemed to be dry and mostly barren until they found a large forest. It took them a day’s hike to get there and it took its toll on Sara. The men were used to harsh conditions. They were no strangers to the wilderness or survival and they all seemed to take it all in stride. She wasn’t a soldier but she was smart and she wasn’t about to be told what to do by anyone, much less Colonel Strickland. He was a hard-ass, no-nonsense leader of a pack of men that he referred to as ‘The Boy Scouts’ and he wasn’t about to take any crap from her. Strickland practically raised all of the scouts and they were completely loyal to him. They would do whatever he told them to do, without question. Once they were in the forest survival was their main goal. In order to do that they had to find food and water. Which was easier said than done. The water was the easy part. There was a river nearby. But food was going to be hard to come by. One couldn’t just pick a berry and eat it. There was a process. It didn’t take Sara very long to realize that she was woefully outnumbered. She had horrible visions of being passed around and popping out babies that would eventually be subjected to her same fate. But even so, she wouldn’t let anyone get away with treating her like a stupid woman, which did her more harm than good. Her father always taught her to stand up for herself, so that is what she did. Of course, not all of them were bad. A few of them looked after her and vowed to protect her. She was drawn to one of those men, Zeeman. But she couldn’t act on it. She was afraid things were going to get very uncomfortable very quickly. When some of the men died under mysterious circumstances, Colonel Strickland knew it had something to do with her, so she decided her best option was to run away. Strickland ordered his men to find her. He wanted answers and he wanted her back. Sara knew they would come after her but she thought she was safe. She thought she was well hidden and that they wouldn’t be able to find her. She was wrong.

I would rate this book PG13 for language and sexual content (not explicit).

Book 2 ● Sarisart 2 ● 9:20

Captain Sara Zeeman must learn to embrace life on a planet she has come to hate. It was almost two years after they landed on Sarisart when she suddenly disappeared. Sara Zeeman was the Chancellor of the Moon’s Eye Colony but she was finding it difficult to lead her people when she couldn’t manage her own life. Soon after they arrived, she began to realize that she had made a horrible mistake. Every problem they faced, every hardship they had to endure, and every death… she took personal responsibility for. She realized she should have never brought the Moon’s Eye to Sara’s Heart. Sara’s first visit to Sarisart included being kidnapped by mercenaries, a ride in an airplane, and a wormhole. A recipe that should never be combined. Imagine being abducted by mercenaries and forced into an airplane only to be sucked through a wormhole and then crash landing on another planet. It was an awesome adventure that eventually revealed the existence of a time travel paradox with her at its core. She had met an alien that claimed to be a direct descendant of hers. He was an Unan man called Andrin. She was made to believe that when she got back to Earth, all her dreams about building her moon colony would come true. Except, of course, for one major change. After they blasted off, they would be sucked into a wormhole and planted on Sarisart two thousand years into the past. She was spoon-fed information that convinced her that she was single-handedly responsible for the creation of an entire civilization. Maybe it was her inflated ego, maybe it was the fact that the scenario included a hunky husband named Andrew, but she agreed to go through with it. After all, it was fate, right? And you can’t change fate, right? It all seemed so perfect. Too perfect. And she wanted it more than life itself. Andrin could have easily given her so much more information. He had all kinds of proof to substantiate his claims and she fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Not only did she feel responsible for everything that went wrong, but she also felt like a liar. She deliberately suckered one hundred and twenty people into colonizing another planet. They all believed they were going to the Moon, not another galaxy. She had somehow thought that the end would justify the means. She thought it would be paradise. She thought it would be her happily ever after. But life on Sarisart had been hard and after suffering a terrible loss, she fell into a deep depression. After being abducted by huge insect-like creatures and then ending up in the wilderness of Sarisart, she must rely on a mysterious captain who came to her rescue. Captain Britt Mason seemingly appeared out of nowhere and plucked Sara directly out of hell only to put her life in more peril. It takes being forced into yet another situation that she can’t control before Sara finally begins to embrace life on Sarisart.

I would rate this book PG-13 for Language/Sexual Situations/Violence.

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Rated R for Adult Content/Violence/Sexual Situations
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(i) A fair warning about this audiobook, formulated as a (mostly) rhetorical question: is there a literary standards rock bottom somewhere out there, which the audiobooks industry one day will hit, and so from that point it will stop moving down in that respect? (based on skimming the first audiobook). Here I tentatively marked or keyworded it “Cyberpunk” (meaning a combination of hi-tech and low-life; any related keywords can be debated in comments or on the forum, not that there’s much to discuss to begin with). Also there’s annoying repetitive low frequency background noise, but seemingly only the audiobook #1 is affected (first I did not notice, when playing it on iPad, later on better quality speakers it became apparent).

(ii) It seems to me that at some point ABB site has developed a nasty habit of not showing many-most-any post texts changes, modifications, and that includes not showing the incoming book comments — simple browser page refresh no longer helps, as it should — the only way to see the modifications, or to see if there’s any comments is to go to browser settings, clear the browser cache, and then try again (regardless of particular browser — when exploring this phenomena, I have tried 5-6 browsers for macOS, iOS and Android) — UPDATE it may also be related to a particular VPN connection, I just tried a different VPN connection and first it helped, but then the same problem was back, and it’s not practical anyway (both clearing the browser cache and changing VPN connection, it should not be that complicated).

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