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Afterlife
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
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Summary
Soon to be a major motion picture from Imagine Entertainment and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
Between life and death lies an epic war, a relentless manhunt through two worlds...and an unforgettable love story.
The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosion - a thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave.
He wakes without a scratch.
The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No planes cross the sky. He's relieved to spot other people - until he sees they're carrying machetes.
Welcome to the afterlife.
Claire McCoy stands over the body of Will Brody. As head of an FBI task force, she hasn't had a decent night's sleep in weeks. A terrorist has claimed eighteen lives and thrown the nation into panic.
Against this horror, something reckless and beautiful happened. She fell in love...with Will Brody.
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- Monica Jackson-O'Neill
- 19-09-19
Very good
Fantastic book, though thought the choice of the wonderful Finty Williams as narrator quite odd, seeing that she's British, and female. None the less, it worked, and I enjoyed it immensely.
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- booklover690
- 02-02-18
50 shades of wish it was more interesting
The idea was great. The execution was not. The rules of the afterlife were neat at first but it really dragged. The villans of the story too cartoony. The worst part was all the cheesy love and sex scenes that were mixed in and felt completely out of place and pervy. Those parts were completely awful and cheesy. Very disappointed. Brilliance this was not.
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- Robert
- 22-07-17
Creative but too complex
I have liked other Sakey novels more than this one.
Though the story theme is very creative, I thought the various elements of the story were a little drawn out and difficult to follow. In addition, I thought a few the subplots were a bit overdone. I had a hard time deciding if the general feel of the novel was sci-fi suspense or romance.
Finally, I think Ms. Williams is an excellent performer with a lot of age, gender and situational range. However, I thought casting a colonial English - accented performer to represent primarily 2 American FBI characters may not of been the best fit.
Nonetheless, I'm glad I listened to the book and will listen to Sakey and/or Finty Williams again.
31 people found this helpful
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- Mel
- 24-07-17
The Cullens Meet Gozer the Gozerian, Then...
*It's a love story...it's an epic war in an alternate world...*
Amazon's *Best of the Month* books are killing me this month. I've had three *Definitely Not's* and here is an *At Your Own Risk.*
There are 3 reviews here while I write my own and I agree with all 3 of them: too complex, should've been edited way down, and the narration is middle ground at best.
But before I whittled away the stars, Afterlife started out strong and Sakey's writing had me thrilled with the choice. The beginning is an example of fantastic writing as Sakey sets up an ancient history of a mysterious being and the eventual corruption of his soul. Interesting premise, strong narrative with good forward projection and great pacing, characters I liked and wanted to stay with for the coming 12 hours. At least for the first 3-4 of those hours, I was thinking Amazon got it right with this one. I detected a faint David Mitchell vibe with the focus on an event that takes place in multi-dimensional planes. As the summary reveals, the protagonist (FBI Agent Will Brody) is killed in an explosion. It takes him a while to come to grips with that fact as he wanders through an alternate world inhabiting a spectral plane of the exact world he just exited. I started to think of the movie Ghost...Patrick Swayze saving his earthbound love, hearing Unchained Melody in my head.
Then, the *Eaters* swoop in; there were good Pro-After-Life Eaters and the Soul-Sucking bad Eaters which set up a fun dynamic on this increasingly weird astral plane. Sakey's writing stayed strong, maybe a little too much going on in Will's head, but the story still intriguing and inventive and the author seemed to have control over the chaos. But then, the bad Eaters go after the good Eaters and I started to think of Twilight -- the good Cullen vampires vs. the evil Volturi...which sent a little bit of a warning blare to my head, but not enough to discourage me continuing with the story. It was about this point where I had to wonder if the author still had control of the chaos.
Then, all Hell breaks loose -- at least I think it was Hell -- but in Sakey's construct of afterlife, I'm not so sure if it was Hell or Beetlejuice's world outside of the Maitland's house. The writing I'd thought was so good in the beginning now felt like the editor had given up. Characters became exponentially more surreal, and the tidy lines between worlds blurred into obscurity. Creatures materialize out of the ether I started to think of Gozer the Gozarian before she does a backflip off the Chrysler building and morphs into Mr. Stay Puft.
It's a fun tug that pulls you in and holds you in this author's crazy world until it becomes a riptide and complete overload. As the story heated up on the *meta* level, the writing seemed to loosen and the author lost control of the chaos. It gets crazy, weird, outrageous...and then Sakey wraps it all up in an uncreative sappy finish that had me thinking, *Maybe not such a good book, but this would make a terrific movie!*
Then, I read: *Soon to be a major motion picture from Imagine Entertainment and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.* As far as recommending...I don't know. You're on your own with this one, but Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have a pretty good record. Maybe they're better predictors of a hit than this Audible customer.
52 people found this helpful
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- C. S.
- 14-08-17
Wrong Category
This probably should be in the romance section. Seems like sex is the primary theme.
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- Will
- 08-02-18
Weird Sci Fi
Would you try another book from Marcus Sakey and/or Finty Williams?
If you like weird, strange Sci-Fi you might like this book. I could only get half way through it.
What was most disappointing about Marcus Sakey’s story?
In the Afterlife there was still good and bad but also the weird.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointed
4 people found this helpful
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- Wayne
- 20-05-19
Not my cup of tea!
Maybe it gets better but I'll never know because I did not finish. Actually, I did little more than start it!
8 people found this helpful
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- Gina
- 28-08-17
Dark
I didn't personally care for the story. there was a lot of wondering around on other planes of existence. I had a hard time picturing them.
I think that it should have had an American narator. As an American, the accent wasn't quite right and many times disappeared. the characters are all from the US, so why would you use a narrator with a British accent?
21 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-07-17
droned on and on
way too long of a story with no real basis or point. couldn't wait for it to be over but didn't want to waste the money I threw away on it
12 people found this helpful
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- Michael
- 20-07-17
Hated the book
Would you try another book from Marcus Sakey and/or Finty Williams?
Not after this one
What was most disappointing about Marcus Sakey’s story?
Really liked previous books and looked forward to this one (bought on the release date). Story was inconsistent and disbelief unsuspendable.
How could the performance have been better?
Use a narrator whose native language was not UK English. Sometimes the non characterized voicing was difficult to understand.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No.
Any additional comments?
Could have eliminated the explicit sex.
14 people found this helpful
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- CJ
- 07-08-18
Good story
I found the narration of this book to be somewhat irritating. The British narrator mispronounced common US words. If it’s an American author writing about Americans in American cities why choose a British narrator?
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