The Transmuter's Daughter

By: Laurence Dahners

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A story in which little is as it seems.

Someone murdered Morgan Djai’s brilliant but estranged brother. When they killed him, he had a $10,000 chunk of platinum in the pocket of his jeans.

Morgan has problems of his own. His company’s been bought out, he’s been laid off, and his wife’s having an affair. Better yet, she’s planning to take everything he has in a divorce.

As Morgan tries to assume his duties as guardian for his brother’s teenage children he’s confronted with the mystery of why his brother died carrying a piece of platinum.
Morgan’s fifteen year old niece is striking in appearance but hostile in attitude. His nephew’s pleasant but defers all questions about the platinum to his sister.

It slowly becomes evident that Morgan’s brother made the platinum. People who wanted his secret killed him. His niece knows how Morgan’s brother created the platinum but doesn’t want to tell Morgan.
The people who killed his brother still want the platinum…

And it seems as if Morgan’s adopted son Adam is his only ally.
Damn…

Dreadful narrator

I am one of Laurence Dahners biggest fans. I love everything he writes and appreciate the way he brings hard science to explain even the most far out concepts. This was a good story and could have been so enjoyable. But, I listened to it on Audible expecting it to be captivating like his other audio books. Unfortunately, it was read by an AI narrator that was completely emotionless. I am not an AI hater and have become used to the AI narrators so many authors are using right now. However, an AI with flat affect is neither enjoyable or acceptable. This story is 5 stars but the narrator is a 0. With a better narrator I would give it a 5.

Entertaining.. perfect for daily walks

I enjoyed the smart scifi story. Looking forward to the next book! I really like Laurence Dahners books and ideas…

Highly Recommend

Why? ANY new title by Dr. Lawrence E. Dahners is like returning to my happy home with flowers outside buzzing with bees and the smell of cut grass on a warm spring day. Perhaps the way he builds his characters throughout the story, maybe how they become heroes or heroins, his "good" characters are thoroughly beautiful men and women and they overcome the "bad" characters with an enjoyably indulgent VENGENCE. But all his stories are like bliss to my ears weather Virtual Voice or a talented Voice Artist. His stories mend my soul leaving my life a little better each book. I'm left feeling that Dahners' moral compass guides his imaginings just like his fingers have mended many sadly broken bones, now his fingers mend my very soul with the optimistic hope and enthusiasm for goodness only the "Doctor of Science Fiction" can deliver.
I'm completely full of myself ! Hoo-Yeah !

Please don't use the AI narrator again.

This was a fairly engaging story. Interesting ideas and plot. Hardly any Sci-Fi if that's what you were looking for. The AI narrator is absolutely dreadful.

Not really up to the standards I've expected from this author (who I usually love)

Narration is understandable. Good story.

This is a good story. The Virtual Voice is much better than text to speech but a live voice actor is better. The p;f "Text to speech" mispronounces a lot of words ie. read pronounced "Reed" rather than "Red" or even IV (medical) pronounce "fourth" instead of "eye" "vee". Virtual voice almost eliminates this problem.

a good actor varies the tone and even the regional accent making the audio book much easier to follow. I approve the Virtual voice as it is better than text to speech for all of us visually impaired.

AI voice is coming along pretty fast. Pitch, tone, speed, even mood are now adjustable. This could be good. Certainly could get audio books out faster for the writers

I would much prefer a voice actor