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The Immaculate Void

By: Brian Hodge
Narrated by: Grahame Bywater
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Summary

You wouldn’t think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of millions of miles distant, would have anything to do with each other.

When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor’s tool shed and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through.

You wouldn’t think that the serial murders of children and the one who got away would have any connection with the strange fate of one of Jupiter’s moons.

Two decades later, when Daphne goes missing again, it’s nothing new.

As her exes might agree, running is what she does best, so her brother Tanner sets out one more time to find her. Whether in the mountains or in his own family, search and rescue is what he does best.

But it does. It’s all connected. Everything’s connected.

Down two different paths, along two different timelines, Daphne and Tanner both find themselves trapped in a savage hunt for the rarest people on Earth, by those who would slaughter them on behalf of ravenous entities that lurk outside of time.

So, when things start to unravel, it all starts to unravel.

But in ominous signs that have traveled light years to be seen by human eyes, and that plummet from the sky, the ultimate truth is revealed: There are some things in the cosmos that terrify even the gods.

©2018 Brian Hodge (P)2020 Journalstone
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Poor narration

unfortunately I had to return the title as the narration was soo monotone and uninspiring it distracted from the content of the story.

The premise for the book sounded great, but the performance let it down.

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no idea

what that was all about. nothing particularly stood out.

agree with other reviewers the editing mKes it difficult to follow two separate perspectives

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Engaging and well paced cosmic horror... but:

The narration really doesn't do it justice. Partially the performance but I think also in the edit.

For a story which is told from the perspective of two different people in two different places, there's not enough of a pause to signify the end of a paragraph, and at times even the end of a sentence. Several dozen times I didn't realise that the perspective had switched, which became very annoying.

I also felt as though Bywater didn't convey much range. Between the violent imagery, the enormity of the cosmic horror, the gravity of the romance, and the enduring love between siblings, his narration seemed quite flat and dull. There's also an annoying drop in tone midway through a sentence, giving the impression that a sentence is finished before it actually does.

It wasn't awful, but I can't help as to think that another narrator would have done a much better job.

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