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The Awakening

Not Alone, Book 7

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The Awakening

By: Craig A. Falconer
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
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We were watching the sky. They were already here.

The pulse hits without warning.

In one harrowingly destructive instant, a mysterious seismic pulse in the Scottish Highlands rips away all semblance of global security.

Complacency grew in the years since Dan McCarthy brought humanity into contact with intelligent aliens, but those days are gone.

When peace is shattered, fear takes over.

The stakes rise without mercy.

As the pulse's chaos spreads, it becomes painfully clear that Dan's teenage daughter Piper - a child born like no other - might hold humanity's only hope of averting total disaster.

The danger to Earth is imminent. The danger to Piper McCarthy hardly bears thinking about.

And this threat isn’t coming from the stars. This time, it’s been here all along....

New discoveries, conspiracies, and threats like nothing you've ever imagined - dive into Not Alone: The Awakening today!

Note for listeners: Stay tuned for the next book in the series Not Alone: Hidden Wonder.

©2021 Craig Falconer (P)2021 Craig Falconer First Contact Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Highlander Emotionally Gripping

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enjoyed everything, really gripping and descriptive story.
great book in collection ,looking forward to next book .

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As other reviewers have said, the welsh accent is terrible but it doesn't take away from the enjoyment. Another enjoyable listen.

Enjoyable lissten

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Lots of good twists. Slightly weaker than previous books but when youre already attached to characters then you get past that quickly.

One problem... the accents the narrator tries.
Throughout the series they are awful.
Italian sounds like a bad Spanish.
"Refined" British sounds like a pretentious supervillain with an almost Boston drawl.
"Northern" British (character is from near Sheffield) sounds like a London cockney nutjob.
Scottish is... barely passable if stereotypical and with incorrect stresses, making it sound forced and confused.
The coup de grace... Welsh... the guy has clearly never ever heard a Welsh accent and assumed it sounds... well... like nothing i can really describe other than confused.
I cackled laughing when later in the book it mentions an idiosyncrasy of the welsh accent.

Seriously... if youre frankly rubbish at non USA regional accents, just don't bother!

However... i can get past all that because I'm not a rabid nationalist with a mental age of 6 years.
So i enjoyed the story none the less for the parade of silly voices. 4.5/5

Fans of series wont be disappointed

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I would have rated the performance higher if not for the appalling Welsh accent! It's a difficult accent to master but as such a key character featured throughout the book, James Chronin could have put more research and practice into it.

Listen to a few YouTube videos on welsh accents before the next book please James. Other than that, you do a masterful job.

A step up on the previous book

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Absolute belly laughs from the Scottish and particularly the Welsh accents, absolutely obscure mixture of scot, asian, cockney and nothing Welsh whatsoever. James Cronin really should have put the effort in and researched this. Story was great though, love this series.

Accents

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Carried on the series brilliantly. Love it. It was like putting on my favourite jumper.

Wonderful

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These books are consistent in their writing, they have issues but I have been hooked by them. Start of another set of trilogies having moved on several years. The characters have always been my favourite part of this series and seeing them move on with this time jump is great. They are the same people but have mellowed or grown as people, their progression is very real. The new character, Piper, isn't some annoying teen genius, she fits into the story and gives a new dynamic. I say this every time but the narrator does an amazing job giving each character a voice. Slight issues with the Welsh and Orkney accents.

Love this series so much.

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not the best of the series so far, but still enjoyed it very much. On. to the next.

Good storey.

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I remember when I first listened to Not Alone. I loved it, but thought that was the end. It was a few years later when I realised that there were sequels. Now I’m on book 7 with two more on the way. What an amazing journey this is! Thanks, Craig!

I can’t believe this series just keeps getting better

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Yet again a brilliant book. Loved every book in the series, not my normal type of book to choose but after listening to the first book, I’ve listened to the complete series.

Brilliant

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