If you look this book up on Goodreads, you'll find quite a few disappointed readers. To these people (and all people) I s5 *shiny, face-hugging stars*
If you look this book up on Goodreads, you'll find quite a few disappointed readers. To these people (and all people) I say do yourself a favour and listen the the Audible adaptation, trust me. It's fucking brilliant.
The combination sound clips from Aliens, new voice recordings, and an incredible cast is just amazing. It's so easy to get lost in this story, too bad it was only 4hrs 50.
If you've ever wondered what happened on LV-426 whilst Ripley was drifting around in space, look no further. The story revolves around the Jorden family, the family that cause the entire colony to be overrun....more
I am officially no longer a audio book virgin!! Yay! Honestly, I had no idea they were so great. Housework no longer interferes with my books!
When the author contacted me offering a chance to listen to his book I was delighted. And a little apprehensive, what if I didn't like the narrator? Will I still be able to enjoy the story if I wasn't keen on the voice pumped into my ears? Well, rest assured the narration was really good! Stephanie does a brilliant job!
The plot revolves around three different factions of religions(?), I guess it's the closest match, Order, Maker, and Chaos. These factions are forever warring with one another in the hopes that one will gain some foothold over the other two. They have been at it for ages. Until Shila, the Order Mistress, decides she wants to end the eternal war forever, by winning of course. In an audacious and carefully crafted plan, she unleashes some nasty mantis/human hybrids on the unsuspecting populace of Iowa. Poor sods.
Among the people caught up in the insect apocalypse are Caroline and Anthon, the former a young woman working in a doctors office and the latter, a Order mage tasked with recruiting new faces. Anthon does not agree with Shila's aggressive tactics, and Caroline is just running for her life! Naturally there's more to her than she even knows, thanks to her mysterious and regrettably deceased parents.
This had such a fast pace, at times I thought how did we get from checking out colleges to weird Abyss elevators in such a short time? It was a little tough to keep up at times. But I rather enjoyed the craziness of it all. Totally unlike anything I have read in recent memory. You shouldn't read this if you have praying mantis phobia though.
*Thanks to the author for kindly providing me with my very first audio book review copy*...more
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