Hosts of Eden

I like the premise and I love audio drama with a sci-fi bent! Keep up the good work!

This body-snatcher style thriller (I’m struggling a bit to pin the genre down ... it claims SciFi) couldn’t really have higher stakes or more plot points (at least early on). But it lacks so much else. It skips along the very most surface level of every detail, and feels immature, like listening to a little kid rushing to tell a story. But it does keep moving and it’s easy enough to listen to if you’re in the mood for a simple but energetic plot. And if you can swallow all the logical leaps and convenient choices. It’s really just silly, and seems to be incomplete (it reaches an okay stopping point, but not the full resolution.) Gets the second star just because there is an easy plot to follow, and lots of fiction podcasts kinda skip that. I even considered three stars, but the portrait of the psychiatrist is just too silly.

Inaccurate depictions of clinical interactions. This is a fiction, so I tried to let it pass, but no therapist would ever talk to their patient in that way (yelling, stating that their beliefs are point blank false, etc.) Sad, because it had a good story, but the author should have done more research

As others have said, it really is a great premise, but is so poorly read. To me it was like he was giving the “spark notes” version of the story, or like a friend telling someone about the basis of their favorite book. Meh. I tried.