What does Matthew Mercer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? If you liked Dark Matter or the Martian do not listen/read this book. The premise of the book is so interesting, but the execution is just terrible. In the middle of action scenes that could be exciting, the author goes on random tangents that are entirely unhelpful and distracting. The 'bad guys' in the book are just simplistic tropes. His wife's character should have been one of the most interesting - but the author fails to elaborate on her backstory as much as he should have (as her actions create the course of the entire book). The potential climaxes or thrills this book could have are bogged down by terrible dialogue and characters. Obviously the point is that a normal guy gets caught up in a high tech sci fi storyline - but he is obviously an intelligent person so his stupidity and rumination on details that are really not important are boring.

The narration is way too informal and simplistic. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? Terrible execution of an interesting idea. I don't know if Audible sorts higher rated reviews to the top of the page but I probably wouldn't have bought this if I had read some of the 2 &3 star reviews lower down that pointed out all the things that annoyed me about this story. Time Travel/ teleportation stories are my thing, but I just couldn't get past the presentation of this one. There were intermittent dead air spots that made me think my player had stopped. What about Matthew Mercer’s performance did you like? Simple scenes drag on for minutes because Klien has to describe everything in excruciating, unnecessary detail. What would have made The Punch Escrow better?Ī less dumb/pompous protagonist.

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