Enjoyable listen

This book is a natural disaster cocktail. It is a well crafted story with good narration.

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Enjoyed the story.

Great story but it sounds like it has been recorded faster than normal speed. If the narrator reads this fast he needs to slow down a little. I Had to slow it down to 75% thats the next step down audible would go. But needed to be about 85%
Other than that i enjoyed it

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Great book defo recommend

Story was great from the get go and had me on the edge of my seat, with unexpected and shocking events that have you in a spin early on. characters are great and you love them and attach to them straight away. However, it feels like the typical flaw of a male writer is present even though the writer is female which surprised me. This is where peoples emotions aren't understood and predicted very well. The building blocks are there for a relationship to develop but then nothing comes of it, as a lose end is left dangling, disappointment left in the reader. The two characters that should come together at the end if all the foundations and building blocks are to be believed but then the characters behave like they just met as if having no emotions for each other. This is not because they dont it is because the writer has omitted them. This stops the book feeling real at this point and you suddenly realise the characters are not real because if they were they both would have gushed at the end, where instead the emotions dont exist or are referred to. This really ruined it for me. Typical male writer flaw here, so if the writer is female then I am very confused at this omission as it really let the book down. All the action spot on, and thenteists and turns had me on the edge of my seat and excited to pick it up again, but it felt like the writer forgets to tie up the loose ends and characters with human emotion suddenly become more puppets. Also the performance was irritating by the guy who reads the book to you. whilst he has a good tone of voice for the book and sounds very natural as he reads, provides life to the characters. However is mumbles alot and speaks stop start, with fast outbursts like sticato, and even in the first paragraphs inhave to start the book again to try and understand what he has said. I had to slow the book down in th end which doesn't really help as the slow bits sound to slow and the fast bits said too fast sounded too fast and I couldn't understand him.

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good read

I was given this book free of charge in exchange for and honest review
I enjoyed this a lot and was a bit gutted when it ended as I had grown to like many of the characters. As a fan of apocalyptic novels this was a great take on the genre. I loved that it was based around normal people not the preppers or indestructible military types that a lot of books are. this gave the feel of people just trying to do their best in a bad situation. the narration was good and was easy to listen to.
I have definitely found a new author to follow and look forward to listening to more of her work.

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The human race is faulted but resilient.

At last, an exciting apocalyptic book which does not rely on zombies or gunslinging murderous crazies for the thrills. And such thrills.
As C.J., with his father (the oldest stoner in the state) and six years old son, Carlton, try to leave the hotel to fly back to D.C. and Carlton's mother after their first bonding holiday since his divorce some years before, they are delayed by the security team of a famous singer. Fearing that they will miss their flight, C.J.accepts the offered lift with the singer's entourage. It's whilst they are stuck in non-moving traffic that the first BOOM occurs, and then the earthquake. Something, a meteor?, was briefly seen in the sky. And so begins an incredible and terrible journey.Sent

The progress, or otherwise, of certain individuals is followed, as ever increasing areas of the U.S. are deemed unsafe and evacuation areas are declared. But without communications, personal or even governmental, it is difficult to know exactly what is happening and still less what to do. Throughout the world only Russia was, apperently, reasonably unharmed. And the reluctant U.S. President finds himself caught in a situation in which he could do little but watch and wait.

This book of apocalyptic proportions is truly terrifying as it could so convincingly happen. But it is an hopeful one, too, depending on people's fortitude, courage and the kindness of strangers when all else seems hopeless and destroyed. Not heros, just ordinary people doing what they can. The main characters develop with the story line and the reader is drawn into the book mainly by empathy with C.J.himself as he desperately tries to reconnect with his missing son.

The narration by Andrew B.Wehrlein is superb, perfectly paced, the text read with understanding and emotion but without histrionics, thank goodness. His character voices are individually defined and appropriate, further aiding their emergence from the pages as real, living people for whom we care. An excellent performance, the narrator's style well suited to the book.

My deep thanks to the rights holder, from whom I received a freely gifted complimentary copy of Faulted, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. It was a powerful and engrossing (if scary) story of the ending of life as we know it. I can recommend it wholeheartedly to any reader other than a total gun freak who wants everyone shooting at anything that moves even if it is the last thing left alive. Sorry, none of that in this book. Instead, it's people trying as best they can to stay alive. I will be looking out for more books by this author.

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This audio book is very good 5 out of 5 I like all her work

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