Gratuitous Epilogue

By: Andrea K Höst

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

NOT A STAND ALONE NOVEL. An extra for The Touchstone Trilogy. What happens when the plot ends? A relentless barrage of weddings, babies, and planetary colonisation! Meandering through the two years following the conclusion of the Touchstone Trilogy, this self-indulgent collection of family reminiscence is more saccharine than dramatic, with the most action to be found in snowball fights. For those who truly just want to know what happens next, no matter how mundane, read on for the everyday, ordinary lives of psychic space ninjas playing house.

Good story but virtual voice mispronounced names

I've enjoyed the Touchstone Trilogy and this book gave me more about what happened next to the family. I really enjoyed the story.

I found the virtual voice to be irritating because the accent was wrong and it kept mispronouncing most of the names and some words. For example, Kaoren was pronounced in more than 4 different ways - even in consecutive sentences, and words (like "lead") that can be pronounced in different ways depending upon the definition of the word (such as "lead" as in a type metal or "lead" as in "to lead") were also pronounced wrong. Once I even had to go back to the book to see which character it was talking about because it mangled the name so badly. They should have had the AI "listen" to the original narrator of the series for pronunciations and accent. Then a human editor should have listened to the story to catch and correct the mispronunciations. As I got used to the various ways the names were said it became easier to listen to the story.

I love the conclusion to the series.

Ever read a book and just wish there was more? that's how you feel at the end of each of the books in this series. Only thing I can complain about is the computer reading.