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Bewilderness, Part One: Threshold

By: Jonathan Maberry
Narrated by: Shayna Small
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The Gateway Project is going to save the world.

Maybe.

Dr. Abby Corman has a bold idea: open a stable doorway between our world and an uninhabited parallel Earth. A new world we can use to mine resources to end poverty, grow enough food to end all hunger, and allow for population growth to end overcrowding. What could be a more noble aspiration for a brilliant young scientist?

But the path to hell is paved with good intentions....

The Gateway is in a secure lab in a huge office building in New York. Ultra-modern, impenetrable by industrial spies or foreign agents, totally secure. Once it goes into lockdown for the Gateway test firing, it becomes the world’s largest and most unbreakable vault. Locked doors, though, can do more than keep bad things out. They can keep bad things in.

Bewilderness: Threshold is the first part of a sprawling science fiction epic packed with weird science, corporate greed, betrayal, and horror. An Audible Original by New York Times best seller Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero and V-Wars.

©2020 Jonathan Maberry Productions, LLC (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Science Fiction
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First book was interesting although very predictable. Characters didn’t capture my attention but the storyline was interesting enough to lure me into book two. Characters are very stereotypical. Totally lost me in book two though. It was hard to keep track of what was happening. Why would monsters pour through the gateway? Were trees coming through as well? Maybe it would have become more clear later on but I lost interest so will never know.

Lost me in book two

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Enjoyed the actual story, would really like to hear what happened next.
Some character depictions and actions were confusing and jarring. Not that they did unexpected things so much as I felt they were a bit clumsily described or inconsistent.
The narrator is not one I particularly enjoyed. More their weird intonation in places and then a number of mispronounced words that threw me out of the story.
They had a nice enough voice, I just didn't like listening to them. I think they also had one of those voices that made parts of the story sound dramatic even where it wasn't.
I've heard plenty of worse narrators that I couldn't stand, so they weren't at that level!

Entertaining story

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And awesome story showing how humans continue to always want to know more :
before : during and :after. Sometimes things should just be left.

Great

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