Dreadful, just dreadful! "Repetetive," said Ball, "and repetitive" said doodad, "and repetitive" said whatsisname.
I got sooooo bored listening to this I decided I wanted to listen to something entertaining instead, and looked at my iPod to discover I wasn't even half way through the story?
I think the problem was it wasn't suited very well to audio. The names being repeated every third or fourth word got really annoying very fast. There were about three too many characters in the thing to keep track of too, all too similar. It might have worked as a 'radio play' with actors delivering the dialogue, but not being read out. Is any consideration given to how a story will sound in the ear when the editors are buying stories?
After the initial set-up, things just got very tedious very fast. It was just a bunch of identical sounding guys stumbling around in a quarry. I got that there was a good idea at the heart of this, but the plot, if there was one, didn't come over very well. It needed to be a lot shorter. Maybe it worked ok on the page, but as audio it was tedious.