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Bewilderness, Part One: Threshold

By: Jonathan Maberry
Narrated by: Shayna Small
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The Gateway Project is going to save the world.

Maybe.

Dr. Abby Corman has a bold idea: open a stable doorway between our world and an uninhabited parallel Earth. A new world we can use to mine resources to end poverty, grow enough food to end all hunger, and allow for population growth to end overcrowding. What could be a more noble aspiration for a brilliant young scientist?

But the path to hell is paved with good intentions....

The Gateway is in a secure lab in a huge office building in New York. Ultra-modern, impenetrable by industrial spies or foreign agents, totally secure. Once it goes into lockdown for the Gateway test firing, it becomes the world’s largest and most unbreakable vault. Locked doors, though, can do more than keep bad things out. They can keep bad things in.

Bewilderness: Threshold is the first part of a sprawling science fiction epic packed with weird science, corporate greed, betrayal, and horror. An Audible Original by New York Times best seller Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero and V-Wars.

©2020 Jonathan Maberry Productions, LLC (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Science Fiction

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This is a great listen and the narration is very good, except when the female narrator attempts to ‘do’ a male voice! It is bad to the point of being distracting from the story.

Bad impression of male voices!

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I really enjoyed it kept me entertained. Short and exciting can't wait for part 2. I thought the narrator was good personally and did it justice, however a few reviews mentioned her sounding like nickelodeon characters and now I can't unhear it lol.

great

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This is great modern sci-fi disaster and the author is very good at it, will get part 2 now.

Excellent Sci-Fi

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Well narrated, this story is a novel twist on the parallel worlds concept, but my goodness it's a tough listen having worked in a toxic workplace with a narcissistic boss like the one in the story. It's relentless! Needs a lot more light and shade, instead the author beats you over the head as the tension piles up to an unbearable level. Got to bale out on this one.

A toxic workplace!

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Full of cliches, this sci-fi disaster-by-the-numbers is a good enough listen that I found myself heading straight into the second book. The narration is okay but not the best when it comes to putting on different character voices.

I do have a couple of issues though:

1. Not specific to this book, but I get really annoyed when an author puts a huge amount of effort into describing exactly what type/make/model gun is being used in any particular moment - even more so when the same character has a seemingly endless supply of different guns. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but it makes absolutely no difference to me if the gun is this brand or that brand. The character has a gun, great - is it a pistol, rifle, or shotgun?

2. What the heck is up with David? Ex-military, and apparently quite the tough guy (who owns lots of different types of gun). However, most of his chapters have him at some point calling out his partner's name repeatedly - even before he knows anything is wrong. Partly I think this is down to the narrator, but I'm not sure how many more times I can hear Mr Tough moaning "Abbey! Abbey!" like a lost puppy.

Rant over, and those points aside I really did enjoy the story, and am already heavily invested in the second book.

Multiverse Madness

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A bit of British Pagan folk music fun… I enjoyed it. Probably not worth a credit but for free it’s a winner

Good fun

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I've listened to the entire trilogy now. If you like your run of the mill sci-fi stereotypes, cliches and story, then this is for you. Except, the narration is quite poor.

A not too particularly well written story, but bearable made worse by the narrator. I've listened to so many audiobooks lately that are completely ruined by poor narration. Ironic really, as the narration will make or break an audiobook, more so than the story!

A run of the mill Sci-fi with poor narration.

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A classic science-gone-wrong story that builds and builds towards certain catastrophe. The characters are fleshed out nicely and the science is explained very well. Exactly what I expect from the never disappointing Maberry. Ends on a real cliffhanger, so you have no choice but to get part two. My only complaint is that the narrator at times sounds like Bart Simpson...

Brilliant!

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Wonderful pacing dragging you straight into world's of infinite possibilities.
Really good! Now part two!

Enthralling! Brown Stuff hits the spinney thing!

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Most of it feels like filler, as it only seems to pick up in the last chapter or two. The worst of it is the narrator giving long, slow, drawn out narration. I ended up playing it at 1.5x which makes it close to bearable.

B movie plot, painful narration

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