Did Not See This Coming
4 out of 5 stars
Another book that I was drawn to just by the cover art. I saw this and knew I had to read it. I went into it completely blind and even now writing my review I haven’t read what the synopsis says.
I haven’t read most of the books that were mentioned that this was like, other than The Martian, but I can see the references and similarities to them all. The Salvage Crew was a super interesting story that had me absolutely intrigued throughout. I absolutely flew though it just trying to figure out what was going to happen. Wijeratne had me on the edge of my seat throughout and I felt like I couldn’t sit back and enjoy it because I didn’t know what was coming next.
I honestly thought I had the story figured out, I had a guess and I thought it was a darn good one. I wasn’t even close. Wijeratne pulled the wool over my eyes and kept me completely blind to the actual ending of this. I love that and I love that even after hundreds of books over the years I still can’t figure some books out. It’s amazing to me.
I’m always a bit cautious when I see that a big-name actor narrates a book. I am because they aren’t audiobook narrators, they’re actors. Sometimes they can transition over and sometimes they can’t. Fillion is on the fence for me. His speech pattern works for dramatic sentences but not as much for ones that weren’t and sometimes there were dramatic pauses in sections that didn’t need them or for too long. But overall, I thought he did a good job with this. He’ll likely bring a lot of people into a book they might not have picked up just because he narrated it.
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