Anyone?
Anyone Series, Book 1
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Anyone?
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Shannon Nicole Locke
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Narrated by:
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Shannon Nicole Locke
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Angela Scott
About this listen
The end of the world? That’s the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters and deep philosophical exercises in school. No need to sweat it. So when 16-year-old Tess’ doomsday-dad builds a bomb shelter in their suburban backyard, everyone thinks he’s gone crazy—until fire rains down from the sky, sinking whole cities into colossal craters and setting much of the world ablaze.
Tess’ dad gives her a few short minutes to gather her emergency bag and her freaked-out kitten, then leads her outside and into the underground shelter. Terrified, the last thing she expects is for him to leave her there all alone, but he has no choice—he must find her missing brother.
Before leaving, he makes Tess promise to keep the hatch door shut, not to open it for anyone but him, and to stay put until he returns. But he forgot to tell her one thing: What is she supposed to do if he never comes back?
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I was kindly given a copy of the book by the narrator and leave this honest review.
Cracking Listen
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Unique.
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I have listened to a lot of post-apocalyptic novels recently and this one is certainly different. Did I enjoy it none-the-less? Yes.
Will I buy the next in the series? Probably. It's not my favourite novel, but it has left me wanting to know what happens next?
Probably my major criticism is that it has also left me wanting to know what has already happened? Personally, I like a lot of world-building in my novels. I want to know know the what, why, when, where, how and who of everything. This one starts out vague and continues vague throughout. I often found myself wondering why the main characters didn't ask each other more questions about how sh*t went down? Actually, some of the reason for this does become clearer (but not much) towards the end of the book, but that doesn't stop me from having been miffed by it in the earlier stages,
Even given what I know (and don't know) at the end of the book, I still feel that the author does rather too much of making her characters not talk about things not because they have any real reason to, but because it's a useful plot device. I don't really like that.
The narration is generally good, although I feel that Shannon Nicole Locke does rather over-act a bit, especially during the apocalypse itself. Occasionally a bit screechy and shouty.
However, the reason for the 3* review for the narration is that she commits, frequently, my all-time arch-hate of narration. She whispers.
I am hard of hearing. I have to set my volume quite loud to be able to hear anyway, but if the narrator suddenly lowers the volume of the narration, I have to stop, break the immersion, rewind, adjust the volume and listen again - at which point, knowing my luck, there'll immediately be a really shouty bit and I'll get painfully deafened further before I have to go through the whole volume-adjustment process again. This is even more of a pain if I am driving, which is when I do the majority of my listening.
If you'll pardon my shouting for a second: DON'T WHISPER! EVER!!!
I don't care if the main character's love interest is just dropping the love-bomb at the time of their imminent death at the denouement of the entire novel (which doesn't happen in this novel - that's not a spoiler). I don't care if the author writes that the character is whispering so softly that it's hardly audible - if you read it so that I can't hear it, you are of no use to me whatsoever.
Imagine you were reading a book where the printer suddenly makes the typeface so small and pale that you have to stop reading and go and search your cupboards for a torch and a magnifying glass before you can continue. That's what narrators do to the hard of hearing when they actually whisper.
Change your intonation, your speed, your emphasis, whatever but *don't* change the volume (for my version of deafness, raising the volume tends not to be as much of a problem, but it probably is for others.)
A different take on the post-apocalyptic novel
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Good Book
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I also found the narration somewhat annoying particularly when the female narrator was reading the parts of male characters, simply putting a croaky voice on.
Overall, not my cup of tea.
Annoying main character
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