the title of this book and the name of the series tending towards the whacky, I was a little dubious about this book even though the premise seemed like an interesting one, luckily this just seems like it was a case of the author being a little heavyhanded with the title as they delivered a solid scifi story with good touches of humour to start this series of books.
While the overall plot is an enjoyable one, the strength of the book for me was in the characters themselves, the steady expansion of Kirian's crew through the book helped with keeping me engaged with the story and added more depth to the main character too.
The narrator also did a good job of helping the book, nicely enhancing it with a good and distinctive range of tones to ensure the reader didn't get confused by the varied cast unnecessarily.
Overall, a strong standalone book that leaves enough open for future instalments,
Note I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review, DNF Somewhere between a quarter and half way into the book and I found I just couldn't identify with any of the characters, and I was having a hard time following the disjointed storyline.
. . kindle unlimited, reminded me a bit of Hutchinson and just a little of Logsdon, not bad just means think probably writer been hit time too many in head or something but just saying
Enter a galaxy of snarky comebacks, inappropriate use of tentacles, and a mythical warrior girl on the edge in this fastpaced, Douglas Adams style space romp.
Kirian, the selfstyled Destroyer of Planets has issues with authority, That's a problem since she's currently in the Neon Octopus Overlord's secret Celestial force against her will, In a desperate attempt to regain her freedom, Kirian defies her tentacled boss and secretly saves Ari, the human she is sent to kill.
Ari is an underappreciated civil servant targeted for her intelligence, She turns out to be one of the few beings left in the galaxy capable of thwarting the Overlord's corrupt plans, She just wants to go back to a normal life, but when the Overlord finds out that she's not dead, all bets are off.
Destroyer of Planets: Bookof the Neon Octopus Overlord Series
Whisperer to Stars: Bookof the Neon Octopus Overlord Series
Ruler of Galaxies: Bookof the Neon Octopus Overlord Series Crazy sciencefiction.
First of three series,
An Octopus as a destroyer
of worlds is a new one to me !
The destroyer of planets
Is no joke !
Whats the true reason for
destroying all those worlds
Or is
the whole thing is one big
Conspiracy
L.
A. Johnson absolutely crazy imagination is totally great, I cant wait for the rest of the series getting released in audio because the truth is that no matter what you hear you really dont know whats really going on, Im totally confused but I love it.
Sandra Murphy have narrated every character perfectly,
Recommended !
Oded Ostfeld,
Meh,
VERY light reading, I love a good scifi romp, i, e. Hitch Hikers Guide, but this really falls short, We don't really get to know any of the characters, and the humor needs work,
Atpages, you can easily get through it in a weekend, It's part of the Neon Octopus Overlord series, but I doubt I'll pickup book two, A different kind of story
Definitely not your average sci fi story, The flow of the story kept it very interesting and pulled you in from the very beginning, It feels like it is full of private jokes, And I'm not part of the ingroup, I still dont think I really know what this novel was all about, but I had an awful lot of fun not figuring it out.
Put briefly, the intergalactic overlordan alien creature that looks somewhat like a neon octopusis quietly destroying planets throughout the galaxy, She seems and I could be wrong here to be destroying these planets because they have bred at least one highly intelligent person who might somehow make life more difficult for the overlord.
As far as I can tell, the overlord is an incredibly lazy person who seems driven by the need to
not have to do anything.
Her main big bad guy opponent a giant praying mantis is also incredibly lazy and wants bad things to happen to his enemy without him having to actually do anything to make those bad things happen.
The laziness of the two chief bad guys appears to explain most of what happens in the novel, They act through intermediaries who hate them, The heroine the Destroyer of Planets of the title is trying to get free of the overlord and she has assembled a ragtag group of potential rebels to help her do this.
Throw in a rock band playing illegal music and a bureaucratic genius, and you have a cast who seems to at least halfsucceed by the end of the novel even though I never understood anything they were trying to accomplish or why this would help them.
So its a strange book with a difficult to follow plot, and yet, its also a lot of fun, I might just pick up the sequel to see if it helps shed light on what Ive already read,
I received this book from Free Audiobooks, com in exchange for an honest review,
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Space opera at its comic best
Moral of the story dont trust the accountant, They may seem mild mannered, but they can totally wreck your galaxy domination plans, One of the funnier stories Ive read recently, Someone is Destroying Planets
There is one being that runs our galaxy, She is known as the Neon Octopus Overlord, mostly because her name, Ttszooodjdeaaaarrr, is way too hard to pronounce, Those close to her just call her Soda, Running the galaxy is hard work, It leaves almost no time to watch her favorite TV shows, To help her out, she has a cadre of indentured servants, called Celestials, to do the grunt work, Kirian, Destroyer of Planets, is one of them,
When Kirian first took the job of being a Celestial, she thought it would be cool, I mean, travel the galaxy, meet new people, kill them, what could be cooler than that She even got to chose her own name.
But lately it hasn't been the same, She keeps having black outs, and her boss, has been destroying whole planets, and she doesn't know why, Perhaps if she started saving a few of the people she was supposed to kill, she might be able to figure it out.
. .
L A Johnson weaves a fantastic tale of increasingly unlikely and outlandish scenarios, If it seems insane, then they must be on the right path, If you like Douglas Adams, you'll enjoy this humorous adventure as Kirian tries to figure out what it all means, What do a hacker who dreams of being a musician and a super smart desk jockey know that could be a threat to the many tentacled overload The answer may kill them.
Enter a galaxy full of snarky comebacks, inappropriate use of tentacles, and a mythical warriorgirl on the edge in this fastpaced, Douglas Adams style space romp.
A life of captivity is getting to Kirian, the selfstyled Destroyer of Planets, She has never actually destroyed any planets, but getting to choose your own title is one of the few perks you get when you work against your will for an evil Octopus Overlord.
In an attempt to regain her freedom, Kirian defies her tentacled boss and secretly saves Ari, the human she is supposed to kill.
Can the two of them and a band of misfits join forces to thwart the Neon Octopus Overlord And can a revolutionary rock song from an illegal grunge band save a planet.
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