Would be better narrated by an AI

The story is great, though brutal at times. The narration was a chore. Xe Sands is a bit better, but there's more variety in sentence delivery in my accessibility screen reader than there is from Dominic Hoffman. I'd love to know what happens in the next book, but I don't think I can cope with another 30-odd hours of identical sentence cadence from him and zero characterisation of any of the separate voices.

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Overlong

It’s overlong but still a well told tales of a collapse of civilisation and an attempt to recover something from the ashes. Looking forward to the sequel.

Pity Robert Vaughn wasn’t around to do the voice of the AI.

Narration was good.

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All The Scary Things

When I realised this was over thirty hours, I feared I’d made a bad choice, but I found this book and performance so engaging. I listened whenever I could and at no point found myself thinking “Ugh”. The story has pretty much all the big existential terrors, and a pretty big twist at the end that had my mouth literally fall open. It’s a loooooong performance but I found it thoroughly engaging, gripping at points, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

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The Star Wars Aftermath Trilogy has brought me here

I saw this book because I loved Chuck Wndig’s work on the Star Wars Aftermath Trilogy and this has just became my new favourite audiobook the story was well told and narration was well done and got so emotional when it ended.

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Great story - didn't love narration.

Really liked the story, it's sprawling epic with lots of surprises and scarily prescient given recent events, but I wasn't crazy about the narration, especially some of the accents, and to be honest it felt a bit dull.

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Brilliant

Original, entertaining and yet not long enough. Also thought provoking and a terrific selection of characters.

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Epic story. Full of twist and turns.

Enjoyed this story. I thought i had it sussed after the first third but then it went in a totally different direction. The wait for the UK audio version was well worth it.

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Took a long while to gain momentum but good when it did

I have such mixed feelings about this one, mostly about the narration. The pace of the narration was very different depending on whether you were listening to the lady or the man. I saw a review on here that said the female narrator was too quick? Well for me, the male narrator was incredibly slow. I had to adjust the speed of the book when he was on as I was bored. The story also takes a long time to get good, I would have given up if I wasn’t on a long car journey through the middle of this. That said, the end was satisfying. One more thing - neither narrator good at accents which was sad as the character of Pete Corley would have been fantastic in an Irish accent and Sadie lost a lot by not actually sounding British.

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It was just all too much

I really enjoy post apocalyptic fiction so this book appeared to fit nicely, however I was really disappointed.
The idea was great but an hour in I started to struggle. Yes there was excellent character development however the more I knew about the characters the more I didn’t care and just wished that they would die, especially the females! I can only put this down to the female narrator whose style just grated on me. I found myself skipping parts that she read.

There was just too much back story, too much filler and not enough after the fact post apocalyptic survival. The book is probably about 20 hours too long, I mean I like my epic stories but so much of this book wasn’t relevant to my preferred genre, one can listen to the first couple of chapters then skip to say the last five and that’s all you needed to listen to.

I could not really put it in a genre, it’s a sort of thriller (but not) espionage (but not) there’s a bit of violence thrown in for effect but it added nothing.

It still gets three stars as the idea is there, so if you like in-depth but unnecessary character development and a drawling female narrator and a long and winding story then this book will be for you, if you like struggles with life after an event give this a miss and go and re listen to Swan Song.

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Incredible, mirrors possible global outcome.

Beautifully narrated by the main leads. I purchased the book a while back and read a few hundred pages and then put it away for a while. I returned to it because it's sequel book Wayward has just come out.
So glad I did couldn't stop listening cared about characters and final outcome. Can't wait to see how it all pans out.

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