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The Raven Tower was another fascinating narrator from Leckie: a well justified mostly second person perspective from the point of view of a god speaking, mostly unheard, to a mortal who has caught its attention. There were two main narratives, with deliberate ambiguity as to which was plot and which sub-plot, and I did prefer one over the other. The narrator went a little over the top sometimes, with some accents being a little hard to understand, but certainly preferable to a monotone.
For my next listen I went into my backlog and pulled out The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which so far is as good as everyone said it was. I'm also a sucker for messing with time, which this novel does in a fairly unique way.
I did also listen to one of the April freebies, Dispatcher by John Scalzi, narrated by Zachary Quinto. Story and performance 3/5. It was an interesting, if fanciful, premise, explored with workmanlike competence, and narrated with same. I think it's the first Scalzi I've read, and wouldn't inspire me to seek out more. Granted, I'm biased against the tendency to turn any and every premise into a police procedural.
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