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Sea of Tranquility

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Author: Emily St. John Mandel –


Publisher: Pan Macmillan –


Genre: Science-Fiction –


Overall rating: 5/5 –


Writing: 5/5 –


Duration: 5:46 h, medium –


Narrators: Arthur Morey, John Lee, Kirsten Potter, Dylan Moore –


Narrator/performance: 5/5 –


Impressions: 5/5 –


Performance errors: 0/5 –


Complexity/reading level: 3/5 –


Audience: General


Commentary/review

A relaxing book about loosing the meaning of life, the destruction of justice and the reign of a dystopian bureaucracy. It is beautifully written, it does not look down on the reader and is essentially optimistic. You cannot go wrong with a mix of features as ambitious as these, provided you can pull it off.

I absolutely loved the interpretation. It is not very common to have four narrators and keep everything together. I think that these voice artists had a great time. I believe this audiobook is a textbook example of an excellent audio production.

Sea of Tranquility audiobook cover, a woman floating in a body of water, face up, relaxed and breathing

The cover is clearly a work of art, a poster I would not mind on my wall.

Cover Photo by Raymond Petrik on Unsplash