Aurora Rising

It's fine. I think this might be a case where the audiobook performance got in the way of the story. John Lee has an idiosyncratic style, which apparently works for many people but not for me; a bit too monotone, with an oddly portentous intonation.

Update: after listening to other audiobooks narrated by John Lee, I think this is probably an outlier. For some reason this reading is much flatter than his other work.