The I.P.O.

By: Dan Koontz

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A tragic accident. An opportunistic CEO. A shocking announcement at the opening of a bizarre new stock market. Seven year-old Ryan Tyler, Jr. has just been adopted. By a corporation. Ticker symbol RTJ is the initial public offering on James Prescott’s Avillage Exchange, a market that trades in the financial futures of exceptionally gifted orphans. Before the brilliant first-grader has even had a chance to catch his breath, he is whisked off to live with seemingly perfect new parents he’s not sure he can trust. And he’s got a sinking feeling that the only ally he has from his previous life is somehow conspiring with the corporation. With Prescott and a board of directors pulling strings behind the scenes, Ryan’s only chance at freeing himself from his shareholders may be to team up with his fellow Avillage orphans: an embittered computer-programming savant, a once-in-a-generation NBA prospect, and a show-stopping Latin American model. Koontz’s fast-paced yet introspective writing style is sure to keep your mind whirring and the pages turning, right to the explosive final page.

Great story Terrible reader

Great story but oh so poorly read! Virtual voice is monotone with no nuance , feeling or zing to the story. Very distracting and makes the story confusing. Get a human reader please!

voice too mechanical.

I liked the story was good but the voice was too distracting. I’m not a fan of AI readings.

Decent book

While I enjoyed the story, the narration was quite disappointing. It was bad enough to be distracting from time to time.

Not a fan of ai reading

This ai reading was not great… the intonations were not always in the right place and some words were not correct in context— also it read dates like 11/16 as 11-16ths soooo it was kind of off on certain things— the story was good though and I wish we knew what happened further along the story of Ryan

NOTHING LIKE DEAN KOONTZ!

I got this book thinking it was by DEAN Koontz but the writing was nothing like Dean Koontz (particularly the ending is totally not Koontz). After finishing it, it became clear this was not written by DEAN Koontz, but is the first and only book by DAN Koontz! There were elements of the story that were thought provoking but the characterizations and story was weak and the ending unsatisfying. The narration was AI and I wonder if the story was also AI.

The AI narration is not horrible, but there are many, many, humorous AI mistakes.