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The Lost Colony

By: A.G. Riddle
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
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Can humanity survive on a new world?

On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet - and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid.

The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld - Eos - seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems.

The first colony of settlers - from the Carthage - have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos. Are they the key to finding the lost colonists? Or are they responsible for their deaths?

Just as James is unraveling the secrets of the spheres, a storm hits Jericho City. Emma, recently elected mayor, struggles to lead her people to safety while James tries to make his way home. In the middle of the chaos, a new danger emerges - a threat no one saw coming.

With time running out to save the colonists, James and Emma face their hardest choice yet.

About THE LOST COLONY
The Lost Colony is the third and final book in The Long Winter trilogy, which began with Winter World and continued in The Solar War.

©2019 A.G. Riddle (P)2019 Recorded Books Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Survival Emotionally Gripping Winter

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As above....but then part 3 turned into The Matrix. Was so disappointed with the finale.

It started so well....

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good sci fi, performed well, Emma unfortunately has a lot of skippable chapters but love the Assimov " Last Question-esque" aspect of the Grid storyline...

reminds me of the Last Question...

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Very good production and will give you a conclusion to the story.

However, felt like getting too clever and falling into the same pitfalls as the Matrix trilogy as a result.

I found I had to go back at times and I had spaced out a bit and stopped paying attention.

Enter the Matrix

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Okay….remember that I told you that I was a bit of a tech Luddite…….and that the first two books I could suspend my disbelief well the third made me think a little too hard.

There was quite a bit of peril and I find myself thinking just “why can they not catch a break”, so if you like a lot of running, jumping and believe it or not dinosaur action than just keep on listening. You will still just have to go with it and accept what is happening but……….with a couple of hours to go the plot went a bit too deep for me. I will not give anything away but you will really have to concentrate to some of the explanation especially if you want to understand what is going on. I had to pause the story to have a think about some of the revelations……got a bit cross with myself, gave up and again just went with it. It was like some sort of bizarre fever dream (which is quite ironic). The fact that I got through all three and still liked the main characters is a pretty good thing. Normally by the end of a trilogy I do not care and wish that they would all die so it will be over (quite a short attention span)

I think that you will have to read/listen to at least one of the first two books to have some idea of what is going on before you read/listen to this. No sex scenes (very refreshing) not too lovey dovey, actually in all quite a gripping yarn.

Fever Dream of a finish. Satisfying conclusion

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I really enjoyed the first two novels in the Long Winter series, but this conclusion was a real slog! For starters, the narrator changed the voice of Oliver from the gruff, sarcastic tone to a rather meek and unremarkable one which took away the impact of the character completely. Secondly, the eRex section seemed to drag on forever and I felt like I was listening to a very drawn out T Rex section of one of the Jurassic Park films with just a lot of repetition ("it was so close I could see its back teeth"). Then all of a sudden and without warning, we're given an entirely different timeline... and then it wraps up. For me it was a disappointing conclusing to what was earlier a thrilling and suspensful series.

This was a slog

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