Newborn and Williams, the perfect team!

Otherland is one of my all time favorite series, so I knew I'd adore the audio book. I did and that was mostly due to George Newbern's superb narration style. Download the entire series and get ready for an immersive adventure you'll want to re-visit time and time again!!

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The Saga Continues

This story is very well written. The character development is extensive and the story is complex. That being said, there are a lot of characters and the author gives them all the same amount of attention to detail. You feel as if you know what that character is really like.....until suddenly you don't know them because the story makes a surprise turn.
The story is multi-layered and jumps between characters and locations so this isn't a story you listen to while your attention is elsewhere. The way it jumps between the people and settings makes it very interesting but there have been times I've had to backtrack to figure out what was going on, but the book is worth it. I enjoy reading and listening to books that aren't simply linear from start to finish and this book is it. I just listened to book two again to prepare for book 3 and there were details I had missed the first time I heard it. Can't wait to start the next book-

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a hot mess

Interesting. I'm still thinking about it months later. But it could have used an editor to tighten it up.

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Sailing on

This is the second Otherland book.

You need to have read or listened to the previous book in the series, City of Golden Shadow before starting this book, or you will not understand most of it.

Aside from that, it is difficult to know how to characterize this book. The characters who were gathered by the disruptive Sellars in City of Golden Shadow get separated again into three smaller groups, and each of these groups winds up transported into a different sim-world, where they have some dangerous but at the same time tedious adventures. We discover that the dangerous operative Dred (or Dread, or whatever his name is) has infiltrated one of the sims in Martine’s party, but it isn’t clear, even at the end, which one.

The Otherland network appears to be breaking down, even though it is still in the process of going live. The adventurers all get into some dangerous situations and uncover some confusing but possibly useful pieces of the puzzle. Renie and !Xabu are finally reunited with Martine’s group, but some of the members of their party appear to die at about the same time.

We also spend considerably more time with Paul Jonas in this book, traveling with him to the London of War of the Worlds, Renaissance Venice, and finally the Ithaca of The Odyssey, among other places.

In the end, things look serious for some of our characters, but we can’t tell how close they are to a resolution of anything. We still need to go on to the next book.

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amazing

a truly amazing second book of the other lands series quickly becoming one of my favorite book series I've ever listened to

fantastic

love the narrator. I could listen to him read Martine's POV all day. excited to see some of the stories combine back together

Amazing narrator.

I had to check and see if it was actually a team of different actors doing the narration. really excellent.

A must listen.

I loved it! Great series. I can't wait to listen to his next book in this series.

best narrator

easily one of the best narrations on a series I have had the pleasure listening to. gives each character a distinct life. story also excellent and engrossing.

book two, listen to city of golden shadows first

good ass book series y'all, get on that shit...one if the main character is a baboon that carries a magic lighter