So I listened to about 3 hours of this 12 hour book, confused and annoyed as to why nothing made sense and felt very political. Realised it was book 2 in a series, so after having listened to the first one, I came back to this one in a mixed mood. 

I think, like others, I really enjoyed the scenes of Eric in Africa. (Apparently the author ended up being really pulled into the research and I think the passion shows) Perhaps that’s because that felt like a complete story, unlike everything else going on which was set up for book 3 (in a decent way). I felt like the discussions about technology were a little basic but are clearly set up so I’ll give the author the benefit of the doubt.

All in all, pretty decent and engaging enough for me to want to read the next book.