Jeffrey lives up to my expectations from his audio work. This book is the style I’ve come to know Jeffrey for. He voices the characters with their own personality and accents, breathing life into them as he speaks. I love that Jeffrey never gives away a hint of what’s to come as he becomes the characters. He is them in the moment, not aware of how the adventure will go. Thank you. Another great job for Jeffrey.
In the first few chapters we meet our team as Sashi visits each, bringing them in on the mission – to go to Sentinal Islands. It seems each of our new members have a little bit of a colored past. As Rowan likes to say, they are each broken. And, in a way, they are.
The prologue gives us a view of one of the Sentinal Islands. The natives here are…interesting. So I’m curious what our crew will come across when they arrive there.
The POV is between our team: Rowan Baer the ex-U.S. Army Ranger, Talia Mayer the anthropologist, Mahdi Barakat the linguist. They are all of different cultures and backgrounds, but seem to have fun together personality wise. Cool. Before we get off on our adventure, I thought it’d be fun with these three people. And it was. Each has a different insight and knowledge they bring to the table, and it works.
The story is rather fast paced, but the actions to the natives on Sentinal Island seem to work with the story. So it doesn’t feel as it’s rushed. There is something that happens in each chapter, whether working toward communicating with the Sentinelese or the mystery behind other things involving the Sentinelese.
The natives are different. There are some lewd sexual gestures hinted at here. Or what some may take as lewd, but it’s in reference to the natives on the island and it’s how they perceive to communicate. You don’t get all the details, but you get the gist of the display. It did not bother me. It held true through the book so felt to fit the nature of the natives. Then we see their reactions to the crew when we are ON the island.
The experiences with this island grow stranger and stranger. Really. What they find here are mind blowing. I never expected to come in and find what we did…how we did. I had to know what was behind these natives being as they are. Then I worried if all would make it off the island, or at least the people I’d grown fond of.
This is a quick paced adventure story that keeps you wondering what strange event will happen next. And leave you wondering if it’s all true or not. Jeremy gave me what I was expecting and more in this story.