Admittedly, I’ve only listened to the first book in the series, but there are two things that are problematic for me. 1. I don’t like how the narrator reads this book. It just doesn’t sound/feel right. It’s like he’s overly dramatic and/or doesn’t have enough subtlety and nuance. 2. It is completely unrealistic to portray..
Review from Deception →
this ben led troops in war zone very far fetched. first five books good then Ben gets stupid reminded me of Rick in termines explaining not to be like a rabbit to caril the leading them into a obvious trap .the author has lost his audience .
Review from 3 Hour Tour →
The first part of this story was so unintelligent that I actually had to laugh aloud! Then as the story continued it devolved (which I would have argued was impossible) into porn. But, it wasn’t even good porn. It could have been written by a twelve year old middle school kid. I couldn’t continue and..
Review from Rainier →
Bad and unrealistic characters, this is not a volcano disaster story. Author has no knowledge of volcanis, survivsl, or people.
I slogged through all six volumes (in the final 2 praying that I would finish SOON.) The story line is quite implausible. A group of survivors who are eeking out a living in the hills after an EMP, and they run into every manner of bad guy and natural disaster you can think of. Main..
Review from Nightblade →
The story was was great narrator ruined it. He was flat and robotic with no emotional inflection.
Review from The Complete Age of Collapse Series →
I really don’t want to be mean so I’ll just offer a two word review…not recommend.
The characters are all disconnected the story doesn’t seem to flow very little emotion displayed
A large part of the struggle was the performance. It sounded like I was listening to some junior high schooler. Beyond that, as others have noted, certainly not in the top of it’s genre and not even on par with some of the author’s other works. One and done for me.
The Story was great and I really enjoyed it. Misaki was frustrating for the first half of the story and I grew to love some of these characters only to have my heart ripped out. And I could’ve lives without all of the time words that were in Japanese, it seemed excessive to be honest…