The Girl Who Dropped In

By: David Collins

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Daniel Baker was an engineer at Raytheon Shipboard Systems. He was getting ready to move into the small cabin he had just bought that was being renovated.

Sue Glitch was the “clueless tourist” who had literally dropped into his life.

Something (almost everything) about her story screamed “not quite right.” She claims that “We are from Zealand, the newer part.”

Just who is this strange girl who just dropped in? Or what?

The answer is out of this world…

When fate gives you the chance to drop everything and go on the adventure of a lifetime, you dive in…

Horrible Dialogue, Very Good Speculation About Future Science

The dialogue was worse than stilted. It sounded like it was translated into another language, then that was translated into a third, then the process was repeated a few more times before translating back into English (if that is, in fact the original language). And the author doesn’t seem to know what contractions are used for in writing.

The plot was largely explained (in this stilted prose) rather than clearly shown. Honestly, a writing seminar would’ve fixed most of the writing problems. Or maybe just an editor would have. Even a coauthor.

The Stilted prose combined with the virtual voice just brought the stiltification to a torturous level.

And yet the speculation about future science and technology was superlative. Thaf’s where the author’s penchant for explaining actually worked.

More complex that I expected

The story line of this book was far more sophisticated in its construction than I expected it to be. I would love to see a sequel to it and it is entertaining from start to finish. Even the AI narration is easily understood throughout.

AI VOICE

COULDN'T GET PAY THE AI VOICE MISPRONOUNCING. SORRY. BUT I HATED IT BECAUSE THE VOICE WAS SO DISTRACTING.

awful voice

difficult to listen to, the voice was unnatural, and flat. some of the words were just read wrong.