Good Story

A good story but let down by the narrator. Not sure about the science behind the way people are put on another planet but I've read a lot worse.
I received this audiobook from Free Audiobook Codes for a review.

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The narrator is terrible

Not a bad story but the narrator needs to decide how he is going to pronounce words and stick to it. Hearing him constantly pronounce rations as ray-shins, among many others, distracts from the storyline.

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very poor

This is for the box set rather than individual titles within the series. From poor narration to poor story execution. Tom Lennon's idea of narration is to attempt to do voice acting for everyone. Now I normally would never nit pick something like this, however his idea of doing various characters including russian accents is shocking bad. He pretty much tries and fails to do a simple Russian accent and it comes across as almost French is all I can think he is attempting to do. His French accent sounds nothing like a French accent. Further more the way he speaks when in any character, is that of speaking almost like a simpleton rather than naturally. He cant speak naturally because of his horrific attempt at trying to do various characters and what he imagines is their accents, except it all comes across as the same or somehow bad to listen to. Then there is his struggles to say words correctly at times. Occasionally you can hear something in background it sounds like he is having some kind breathing problem. The books 1-3. These books and this series is clearly not written for the adult reader in mind. I would put these books and series within the young teen category. The premise seems sound in the beginning. You think your going to get this story about survival during the end of the last ice age, and the struggles the people had to stay alive. This is remarked upon by Knapp repeatedly. However this is not how it actually comes across. Matt is dying in his hospital bed after a full life. However he is somehow transported to some other timeline or dimension through the use of a portal. He wakes up, and over the course of next treatments he is made into a young guy again, but the futurists don't remove his memories or anyone's for that matter when these people are captured. Matt quickly becomes a Mr know it all within the first 10 chapters of book 1, and this very quickly ramps up into him knowing pretty much everything. Soon he becomes the sole leader of a rag tag bunch of tribes people, refugees, people rescued from traders etc making all the decisions for them, despite the fact he has token meetings with the people around him, at the end of the day he is the one who makes the final decisions. However as the story progresses the reader begins to realize that Matt makes poor decisions , doesn't exactly think of the consequences of his own actions, but is quick to point out of other people's flaws. He also becomes more and more beligerant to people during book 2. And his incredible know about everything encyclopedic brain continues through the remaining books. It is clear Knapp is hoping his readers do not pick up on obvious mistakes and flaws throught these series. , most of his real world facts are nothing of the sort. I got rather tired and then annoyed at the lethargic way most people acted around Matt the tribe leader. No matter what tone of voice or know it all arrogance he spews to his readers, one thing is painfully clear, he should never have been given the title. Overall the story of survival is anything but harsh, it is in fact far too easy and its overall selling point ironically should not be the claim its about how hard it is to survive. Especially given Knapp decided to give his main protagonist the power to know everything. When people speak to each other, it's like there is something wrong with the way they speak (aside from the lousy voice acting of the narrator). Overall I am in for a good tough survival story set at the end of the last ice age, but not at the expense of the main character knowing pretty much everything there is to know making survival nothing more than trivial at best. I got this boxset free of charge and I am not writing this review for anyone but myself or anyone else wanting an honest opinion on how bad this story is executed and told. As mentioned earlier this series is clearly aimed at the younger audience, one in which they won't question what the main protagnist is doing. I also suspect these same young readers / listeners are going to come to the same conclusion as I, and many others. I had to stop listening for large periods of time, I just couldn't take listening to either the narrator or listening for long periods of time, it was just that awful. I don't know why I thought it would get any better, but it actually got a lot worse as the story unfolded (so many long hours I will never get back, in the hopes other people will not have to go through this really awful listen or even consider buying the books.) The narrator is awful at his job, the story is far too long winded and mostly dull and the main character or protagnist is a know it all, know nothing kind of guy. If I could zero stars or below, its that awful. If you hate this series by Knapp, your going to hate every other audiobook releases of his stories, because they are just to insulting to the intelligence of the listener.

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