Ascension Series: Volume I

Books 1-3

By: Ken Lozito

Narrated by: Jeff Hays

Contains books one, two and three of the action-packed space opera Ascension series.

They’ve been watching us for hundreds of years. Now they need our help. Earth is not safe.

Zack is good at finding things, but when he discovers a global conspiracy, life as he knows it is over. Sometimes, the truth doesn’t set you free. It traps you instead.

Kept secret for 60 years, the discovery of an alien signal forces an unlikely team to investigate a mysterious structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system.

Join the crew of the Athena, Earth’s most advanced spaceship on the ultimate journey beyond our wildest imagining.

©2016 Ken Lozito (P)2020 Podium Audio

Needs work

This narrator needs to stop repeating the identity of every character after every sentence.
By the second or third chapter we have a pretty good idea of who is saying what. We do not need the constant he said or she said. That is the most annoying thing a narrator can do.

Not Bad per se, but whiny and boring

Poor action sequences
Whiiiiny deliberately immature characters
Sadly, there’s a decent underlying plot- but it’s too much mental work to get thru it

Basic Editing?

Does the writer know any words other than ‘said’? It is repetitive and pervasive and once heard can’t be unheard.
Dear Ken, what follows is list of words you might try just to make the dialogue blocks less painfully repetitive.
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I’m about halfway through the second book and I keep hoping the dialogue writing mechanics will improve.

A Great Story with an Awesome Narrator

I'm enjoying all the characters and different types of species. This narrator is one of the best I've listened to so far.

Great story, Book 1 to 3

I’ve read these books & this audio book is just as great. Just about to start the next 3. Performance is excellent,