Good fun sci-fi

This was a good fun story and while there's a kind of disconnect from the billions of people dying around the world which probably would be / should be mentioned a few times more. But I liked the overall story arc and I want to know what happens next.

*spoiler alert*

My biggest complaint comes not from the writing but to whomever chose that cover art, I mean seriously, that is a terrible image to have chosen and lets you know exactly what is going to happen from the get go, the "surprise" reveal/twist at the end was exactly what I was expecting :-/.

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Now that’s how to build anticipation

A very catastrophic adventure. End of the world action. Good characters. Not a long book, but just the length it needed to be. I highly recommend.

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Mmmmmm

Not sure about this one. I may get the second one if I'm stuck for something.
FYI the cover art gives away a major plot point. Just so ya know.

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Meh

This is a b-grade book at best.
The writing itself is not very bad but it definitely is not good.
There is not humor and no intelligence it in.
Combined with the story it becomes like a stale, warm beer in the summer.
You can finish it but there is no real pleasure in it.
The entire time people run around in a world threaten by multiple and unreasonable catastrophes that will end the world.
It is recognized that this is too unlikely to be coincidence but that is it.
Someone kidnaps people, turns out it is a billionaire that knows all about the end of days and builds some kind of a space ship.
You find this out in the last pages and the entire book is just bad stuffing.
I will not even bother with the rest.

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Just okay

I went for this as I’m a big fan of Ray Porters narration and it was on 2-for-1 sale as well as the sort of book I enjoy.

Now there’s nothing actually wrong with it, but it’s not great either. It feels like someone’s first try at a novel, lots of cliche’d characters with obvious “here’s their backstory and motivation” to the point it felt like last action hero in places (without the comedy or self awareness).

It also has a few glaring mistakes, for instance a person with a revolver has it taken off them and the person doing so removes the magazine and it says there is a round in the chamber. While minor it does still take away any suspension of disbelief you may have managed.

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Blown away!

What a fabulous listen! This was a superb story, with action and intrigue, and an amazing ending! Highly recommend and will be onto book two now

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Great Apocalyptic Thriller

Wow this is a great apocalyptic thriller that has action suspense and intrigue in abundance, Nathan and Jasper’s writing allows you to care for the characters so that you are rooting for them to overcome the adversity they encounter and still want more.

Ray Porter’s narration is as usual great and he provides a depth to the characters that only adds to the storyline.

I cannot wait to listen to the next in the series, we’ll done to you both on such a great book.

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pulls you in

This starts a bit slow, but it really pulls you in. for me I wanted to know what was going on

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A good start to a series

The book was easy to follow and well paced. I enjoyed it even if one of the meet-ups between the small cast of protagonists seemed to be more than a little far fetched. Usual fantastic end of the world scenario that sometimes seems a little close to the bone, how they cover the greed and breakup of communities and the breakdown of law and order. I very much enjoyed the Marine character. I just wish the FBI agent had more spine, seemed to be a bit panicky at time. I appreciate that we don't want a cast of terminator like people. But with the training and selection process that the FBI uses and experience that an agent of her years in the field would have - I'd like to think that they would have a little more steel to their attitude.

Ray Porter did his usual fantastic narration. I listened to this probably too soon after listening to all 3 of the rise series back to back that a couple of the voices were rather close, but if that's the only thing I can say I guess that he's done a darn decent job.

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Brilliantly entertaining

Brilliantly entertaining, great characters compelling storyline can't wait to read the next chapter of this series.

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