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Final Days

By: Nathan Hystad, Jasper T. Scott
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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Summary

The countdown to the end of the world has begun.

A mysterious convergence of natural disasters threatens to destroy life as we know it, and people across the United States are going missing. With no one left to investigate, Special Agent Kendra Baker takes the case, trying to solve the disappearances before she’s out of time.

Among those abducted is Valeria Miller, the daughter of ex-Marine Corporal Andrew Miller, and he’ll stop at nothing to find her.

With the help of an unstable conspiracy theorist, they find themselves on the trail of a reclusive billionaire who just might have all the answers.

As the natural catastrophes escalate and the evacuations commence, it becomes a race against the clock to find the abductees before it’s too late.

Final Days is a doomsday science fiction thriller, written by Jasper T. Scott and Nathan Hystad.

©2020 Nathan Hystad and Jasper T. Scott (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

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Apocalyptically Cliched

I was hoping for good things from this book – an exciting premise, many positive reviews and read by the inimitable Ray Porter. Unfortunately, it just does not deliver. The plot is paper thin, entirely predictable and without a single twist. Despite the fate of humanity being at stake, there is little genuine sense of tension or jeopardy. It seems that the authors have regurgitated pretty much every eye-rollingly dire cliché from the disaster genre template or James Bond; Billionaire entrepreneur builds sanctuary (called ‘Eden’ of course) to protect the genetic cream of the human race, ex-marine (replete with PTSD and drinking problem) in race to find kidnapped daughter…you get the picture. The characters are so one-dimensional, I found myself caring little for their plight and ended up rooting for the apocalypse. It also did not stack up as a complete book in its own right, and just serves as an introduction to the series. What could have been a potential surprise, is completely given away by the cover of the book! Unfortunately, even Ray Porter cannot elevate this yarn and I won’t be hanging along for the ride…

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Who Picked the Cover Art?

Spoilers, I guess?

Imagine if Se7en’s poster was Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box? Or if The Sixth Sense movie poster was Bruce Willis’ gravestone?

So the start of the story sets out that there are enormous natural disasters which will cumulate in massive destruction. Well. Judging by the cover art, I’m guessing it ends with people escaping into space?

We find out that thousands of people are going missing. Well. Judging by the cover art I’m guess they are being abducted so they are taken on the space ship to avoid the end of the world?

A mysterious billionaire is up to some funny business. Well. Judging by the cover art I’m guessing that he built a spaceship and a launch platform in the middle of the ocean.

The protagonist’s daughter is missing. Well. Judging by the cover art I’m guessing that she has been taken to a launch platform in the middle of the ocean.

And even though the preposterous meeting between Kendra and her sister was completely unrealistic - I still expected that too. In fact - the only thing that did surprise me was that the sister wasn’t PiedPiper19.

The story is fine. The writing is fine. It’s basically a cliff hanger ending with no questions answered. I think this is disrespectful to the reader and I won’t be reading anything else in this series.

Ray Porter is wonderful though.

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Good story

Great story that is thought provoking - builds up with the background story and characters coming together. Looking forward to the next instalment. Thanks to Nathan and Jasper for an enjoyable book

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A bit boring

It was ok, but not enough to make me want to listen to the next in the series.

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Paint by numbers

I imagine a few people have fallen into a similar trap with this book by looking at the number of 5 star reviews. Personally i was not so much disappointed but incredibly bored with the story, which is a far worse crime in my opinion. Nothing surprising happens and as my title says ‘it’s a paint by numbers’ all the way through. Ray Porter does a fine job as usual (although I’m still not a fan of his female ‘voice’) See Steven Pacey for how it’s done properly :). Anyway, yeah this wasn’t for me I’m afraid. Generic characters, generic issues and a poor story all told. Best avoided I would say

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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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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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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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Brilliantly entertaining

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

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