Could not get into this story or the world. MC was very bland, I think I went in hoping for something like Dresden Files and was severely disappointed. ( )

Technomancer
Unspeakable Things, Book 1
By: B. V. Larson
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Series: Unspeakable Things, Book 1
This is a very unique fantasy! I had never tried this author's work before but that will change! This caught me up in the story right away when the main character wakes up in a hospital and doesn't remember his past. He has healing injuries and a picture but doesn't know the people. At this point it sounds like a dozen other books but it gets very different! He gets thrown through a portal after a bit, finds out there are grey men, items that have magical powers, and strange characters and creatures! Lots of action, mysteries, and amazing and fresh fantasy! Really enjoyed this! The narration was excellent too. Free to listen when borrowed with Amazon prime! ( )

Fascinating. Noir. Fantasy. Suspense. Grabs you by the ears and hangs on! Publisher's blurb is enough to get started, answers in the story (gives evil laugh).
Christopher Lane is absolutely perfect by vocal tone and interpretation. ( )

This book is very imaginative. I loved the fact that it was creatively descriptive. It was a unique idea with all the different worlds and creatures. ( )

This book sucked me in very quickly. Right off the bat strange things start to happen, when Quentin gets seemingly teleported right out of the sanitarium. He quickly learns that he was injured in the car crash that killed his friend, a friend that died when his organs filled with sand. Quentin dives right into the investigation, first talking to the witness of the fatal car crash, stripper Holly.

Holly knows more than she is letting on, but Quentin is too far in to care. There are some really cool things going on in this sci-fi version of Las Vegas, like sunglasses that open locks, fire worms, magical rings, a mysterious shadowy figure that runs one of the local casinos, and rips in space-time that suck up unsuspecting travelers.

However, the story runs out of steam about halfway through. That, combined with some confusion and inconsistencies in the narrative make it harder to enjoy. At one point the detective tells Quentin he knows that Quentin has amnesia without Quentin telling him, but later is surprised by that same fact and confusion about the location of a couple of the power objects at several points in the narrative - the photo and the finger – left me frustrated.

I had a hard time caring about any of the characters, I think because none of them ever managed to break out of their character tropes in any way, leaving them hollow. The Cop is corrupt. The amnesiac never remembers anything more about his life. The jilted bride is angry and vengeful, and the stripper is has a heart of gold. A major character dies about 3/4 of the way through and I didn’t even bat an eye.

The ending delivers a good climax, and clears up a lot of the unanswered questions. But I had to skim quite a few uninteresting chapters to get there. ( )