Great alternative to Zombies

A ripping yarn of new gone old. Enjoying it immensely and looking for more.

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Can you suspend disbelief?

A great series of books if you can get over the initial premis. The world suddenly changes and engines, guns and electricity no longer works. How will people adapt? What price civilisation and law?

Cleverly written with a closely observed and diverse population, the first three books in this series are well worth a read (or rather listen). Personally later volumes got a bit too "new age" for my taste - but the initial trilogy were a great adventure.

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Interesting premise Shows good and bad in people

Shows how different educated people can solve problems and think ahead against little or well organised despots Severe savagery is pre elect for those who glorify in it to necessity to survive

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Gripping

Didn’t want to stop listening very engaging story looking forward to the rest of the series

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Pleasant entertainment!

Very well written and well read good, exiting story. It also made you think. Definitely worth to listen to also for the reader's voice.

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An excellent alternative apocalypse fiction.

I thought this was a really clever idea for a different kind of apocalypse story. The survival elements are entertaining,
fit the story and are carried out by someone who I can believe would have that knowledge. All the characters are interesting and the story starts strong and gets stronger. It was also well read with the characters consistently voiced. It was read well enough that I can forgive the pronouncing of the hard A in the word “rations” unless I’m the one who’s been saying it wrong.

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Excellent story, terrible narration

Would you listen to Dies the Fire again? Why?

The concept of the story is a good one. It merges together the concepts of fantasy and sci-fi in an interesting way

What other book might you compare Dies the Fire to, and why?

Not sure

Would you be willing to try another one of Todd McLaren’s performances?

The narration is what lets this book down. The narrator is awful. Every 20 or so words is mispronounced. I expect someone who reads for a living to have a decent vocabulary. Words mispronounced that I can remember off the top of my head include : celtic, seconded, viscount, precise, endinburgh, surmise etc. This by no means an exhaustive list as there are too many to remember.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This book could be very emotional. But the bad reading distracts from otherwise would be an excellent and emotional story.

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How to spoil a story

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No. The narrator obviously doesn't know when to pause for paragraphs etc. Book was spoilt by having to second guess which part of the story he was reading.

What other book might you compare Dies the Fire to, and why?

Similar theme to many post-apocalyptic novels

What didn’t you like about Todd McLaren’s performance?

There was no pause for paragraphs, changes of scene etc which spoilt the novel for me. His voice was fine but it became annoying to second guess where in the story we were at. I am not talking even slight pauses, but straight from one sentence into another which bore no resemblance to the thread of that particular part of the story. In a novel that is following 2 or 3 different threads that is not good enough.

Could you see Dies the Fire being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

No

Any additional comments?

Novel spoilt by lack of basic punctuation rules.

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Good but jumpy

I enjoyed the story and the narrator is very good however there are quiet a few times that it suddenly jumps forward or to another part of the story line with no particular pause or change of chapter. I'm not sure if it is the way it is written or the way it has been edited but for a few moments you are left wondering what has happened. Apart for that it was very good and if it hadn't been for that I would have given it 5 stars.

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Narration....

Narration is ok but the accents are terrible. I'm Irish. That Irish accent and turn of phrase is shocking, even though it is supposed to be an exaggerated one. It is also the same accent as the Vietnamese character's😂. The narrator reads the bizarre version of Irish/ gealic penned by the author but never researched how to say any of the words. Not such a big deal as it was non-sensical to me as a native speaker.

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