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I am finally done with Neil Stephenson's Seveneves. After all, I am not as impressed as I thought I would be. That might be due to the fact that I am not really a Stephenson fan - he is too much in love with detail for my taste.
As an end of the world story though, this is one of the better ones around if you go for realism. And yes, it was interesting, but I needn't to be told about every tiny detail about how they solved the technical challenges to overcome what happened when the moon blew up. There were too many long infodumps in this book that stalled the plot.
As for the narrators, Mary Robinette Kowal did about 20 hours and Will Damron the remaining 12 hours. I must say that I got through his part much faster. Kowal's narration sounded a bit forced when she tried to do male voices, but that is just my personal taste. In my opinion, Will Damron did a much better job, at least I liked him a lot better. I would rate his narration B+ and Kowal's C. The whole book is a B- for me (3.5 stars).
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