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Day of the Destroyer: A Just Cause Universe Novel, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
A City in Darkness - Four Lost Souls Seeking a Light - July 13, 1977 - The lives of four super-powered people become irrevocably intertwined when the lights go out in New York City, plunging their world into chaos. The superheroes of Just Cause, grown soft and complacent without any supervillains to challenge them, must overcome their personal demons as well as uphold the law in a lawless land of rioters, arson, and murder. Lurking in the darkness, like evil incarnate, is the one thing that could bring the world's greatest superheroes to their knees: the force of anarchy and vengeance known as Destroyer.
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- C. Rowlands
- 05-05-18
A tale from Just Cause's history
Despite having enjoyed the previous two books in this series, I must admit to being little skeptical about this installment due to it being a prequel, the main timeline had been progressing nicely and the incidents in this book had generally been covered when talking about the history of that current group. Luckily, my skepticism was unfounded and the author provided us with numerous interesting characters who really brought this story we had already heard about to life.
This book is set back in the 70's and provides details of a blackout suffered by New York and the origin of the baddie that has probably been the toughest adversary of Just Cause through several incarnations of the team, the Destroyer, a technical prodigy who is probably best described as a psychotic teenage version of Tony Stark. Besides the events involving him, the author also does a good job of showing how a superhero team deals with the different attitudes and expectations in a time with distinctly different attitudes from what we have now.
This narrator has done a good job overall with this series and mostly did so again, one nagging annoyance was the weird habit of reading the time that started each chapter as 9 o'clock am etc. rather than simply 9 o'clock or 9 am, it is only a little issue but it did grate slightly.
Overall, this was another strong entry in the Just Cause universe, but I would probably recommend the other two more highly than this one, with volume 2 being particularly strong.
[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Julie
- 12-04-21
Super addition to the series
Wow, I just loved this book. This is book three and so far the previous books have followed the hero Mustang Sally. We have been introduced to most of the characters in passing and know the circumstance but this book follows Sally's mother Pony girl and her team mates as they battle Destroyer. The story is told by multiple characters but each plays important roles in the out come. I think this is a great addition to the series because there was so more than what we had all ready learned. The story fleshed out the background story to the characters. The characters once again were well developed and the author has you caring about what happened to them in just a few pages and with plenty of ups and downs, twists and action it had me hooked until the very end. Can't wait to start the next book.
With most of the super villains dead or in jail the Just Cause super hero team have become complacent and are know how more for great parties rather than saving the day. So they are not prepared for a power cut that plunges the whole city into darkness. Looting and lawlessness breaks out, can Pony girl and her fellow hero's get it under control of has all the partying left even them venerable? At the same time a teenage girls powers emerges when she is distressed with disastrous consequences, she makes her way the Just Cause headquarters seeking help, with the FBI hot on her trail. A teenage boy fed up with being bullied is pushed over the edge and he has the technological knowledge to make a bad and dangerous situation even worse.
I like the narrator. She does a great job and gives each character there own voice which helps bring the story alive. She is the same narrator for the previous books but not once did I picture the original characters.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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