Delphi Mediation

Delphi in Space, Book 17

By: Bob Blanton

Narrated by: Jessica Gurd

There are pirates in dem dar stars!

After Jason's arrest for interfering with the development of the Wakipee, Catie and Marc are left with two mysteries to unravel. Leaving her father to find the source of Jason's arrest, Catie begins to trace the path of the aliens responsible for abducting people from Earth to create Helike and Waspara. While unraveling this mystery, Catie encounters pirates, leading them to another league of planets, which is larger than the Delphi League and wilder at the same time.

©2023 Robert Blanton (P)2023 Robert Blanton

How short the story was

How short and oveious the story was try next time to write a story that is at least 15 if not 20 hours long

The MCs keep getting worse..

Every book the primary characters get bitchier, snarkier, and more conceited. I makes it increasingly difficult to 'root' for them. Combined with the lack of any central villain, the read just keeps hoping something things go wrong.

I love these books!

These books give me so much pleasure. I wish I could find more series like this one and Nathan Lowell’s series. I started reading science fiction at the age of seven (~1974), and have been avid ever since. It serves many excellent purposes, but particularly as means of escape from a very disappointing reality. And of course, now that anthropogenic self-extinction is so very imminent, I need it more than ever to help keep my spirits up, and allow me some level of denial, at least for an hour or two per day. :-)

More of the same garbage

Terrible narration with mispronunciations and poor intonation abound. Shallow plot. Bad writing. Lots of telling instead of showing. No character development. Overall, a third grader could do better with this premise.

Sexist AF

You know the bad old days, where men are in basically all the prestigious roles, are most capable, etc, and women are treated as incompetent, stupid, and inferior? How that's sexist AF and anybody who honestly believes it should be dismissed as backwards and small minded? Yeah, that's Blanton in this series... but the dude somehow thinks it's okay because his blatant bigotry is against men. Sexism is sexism, and wrong, no matter how virtuous you delude yourself to be.