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Assaulted Souls: Book 1

By: William Blackwell
Narrated by: Heath Douglass
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Summary

Nathan King wakes up one day, freezing cold and starving with hunger, on a tattered mattress in a dark cave. He has no idea where or who he is. He meets Edward Sole, evidently his protector, who tells him a nuclear bomb has been dropped and most, if not all of the world, has been destroyed. 

Slowly, the realization sinks in that in this horrific post-apocalyptic landscape, there are no rules, no laws. Cannibalism is rampant, and mutant animals and humans are on the attack. With all communication cut off and meager supplies, every day becomes a fight for survival and sanity. To make matters worse, a band of savages called the Neanderthals have emerged, who rape, pillage, and murder for more than just survival. They enjoy it.

Fighting for their survival and hoping to find a more hospitable island off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Ed and Nathan team up with Cadence Whitaker, Nathan's girlfriend whom he has no recollection of, and fierce warrior Velvet Jones to try and hatch a plan to escape the island before they're all killed. In the meantime, Ed has begun a slow descent into madness, leaving the group wondering who the enemy really is.

A lightning-paced, action-packed exploration of a terrifying existence in a wasteland resulting from humankind's stupidity.

©2012 Brian Braaksma (P)2020 Brian Braaksma

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Not bad

I was lucky to receive a review copy free of charge and although this is a short book (novella) it's not bad as this type of story goes.

The characters are not as well drawn as you'd expect from a long novel, but are not bad for such a short story, Nathan has amnesia but we don't learn why until we are introduced to his girlfriend Candace later in the story, Ed is his best friend I assume but it's never explained but we are told about a strange tale involving a non paying tenant who used to rent from Nathan, this is rather irrelevant to the tale and should have been left out in my opinion, Nathan seems to have a lot of memories of rage concerning non paying tenants generally which also seems a bit odd, maybe it develops relevance in book 2.

The narrator is good to listen to, well paced reading speed for the story but does make some rather annoying mispronunciations, most noteably 'spasmodically' being pronounced as 'spasmatically'.

In conclusion, it's a good enough way to while away four or so hours if you like an apocalyptic tale, I found myself longing for the zombie horde to arrive though as my preference is for zombocaplytic tales but thought I'd try a different flavour when the opportunity arose.

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