Extinct
The Great Dying, Book 1
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Extinct
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Narrated by:
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Miles Meili
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By:
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Jack Hunt
About this listen
Their extinction will be the beginning of ours....
All over the world, birds falling out of the sky cause countless traffic accidents. Reports of dead fish washing up follow. As the mysterious death of animals increases and a terrifying future unfolds, a family in a small Vermont town grapples with the inexplicable.
With emergency phone lines tied up, Emily Mansfield, a science teacher, finds herself stranded miles from home with an injury and forced into a race against time when strangers kidnap her child for unknown reasons.
In a state of desperation, Emily turns to Game Warden, Travis Young, and her ex-husband for help in getting her back alive. But the odds of survival drop by the hour when exacerbated by a deadly medical condition and unforeseen chaos.
Delivering tension and thrills that will hold you until the end, international best-selling author Jack Hunt offers a gripping snapshot of a world unraveled by an extinction event unlike any other.
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Narration is by Miles Meill and was well paced, clear and with God articulation, a touch of emotional excitement breathed into his delivery. Individual characters voicings were also present. My thanks to the rights holder of Extinct, who, at my request freely gifted me with a complimentary copy via Audible Unleashed.. It was an enjoyable thriller, with reasonable character development, more than just a shoot it up story. However, for anyone looking for survival practices following an apocalyptic disaster, this is not that kind of story. Maybe next time. But this is a straightforward, if convoluted, who?, why? and how to save the day? thriller.
"Everything is connected."
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These are the questions I was interested in uncovering the answers for. Instead, this was a standard “thriller” in the American cliche line of dumb, trailer trash bad guys motivated by greed, bent cops, a gun porn showdown and some pretty gaping plot holes.
There was a backdrop of birds falling from the skies and talk of this event being covered on TV 24/7 but it was very much a backdrop to the “thriller” story.
If you imagine this actually happening right now - birds falling from the skies - how many would actually be over one road and therefore fall en masse? Enough to cause the complete carnage of vehicle pile ups, injury and death as described here? Even if the birds were spooked and flocked before plummeting, it still seems far fetched that so many could fall in such a short stretch of road.
I bit of a frustrating read. It get that it is part of a trilogy so there is time for the story to unfold. The characters are pretty two dimensional so not sure I care enough about them to find out what happens to them next.
I am still interested in the scenario though and will read the second one because it has been in my library for ages as a freebie - which is why I finally used a credit on this first instalment. I hope the second one delves deeper into the event and how it affects the world. With such a fascinating scenario, I hope the second one does not focus on some other weaker plot of emotional entanglement between some unlikable characters. There is a great main idea here. I hope the focus is on that.
Meh
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