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Breakers

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Breakers

By: Edward W. Robertson
Narrated by: Ray Chase
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In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an abandoned mansion, where they learn to function without electricity, running water, or neighbors, Walt begins an existential walk to LA, where Vanessa had planned to move when she left him. He expects to die along the way. Months later, a massive vessel appears above Santa Monica Bay. Walt is attacked by a crablike monstrosity in a mountain stream. The virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job - and Earth's survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.

©2012 Edward W. Robertson (P)2013 Podium Publishing Science Fiction Fiction New York
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, it is unique and develops characters around events and shows how people are changed by those events.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Alien's pure motive to just wipe out mankind. They don't talk, negotiate or even try to communicate. That it is set in the USA, aliens seem to really like to USA more than anywhere.

What aspect of Ray Chase’s performance might you have changed?

He tends to drone on a bit.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Any additional comments?

Hard to get used to the narrator but if you persist it is well worth it.

Walt's rampage

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One of the worst books I've listened to. The narrator tried to make it sound interesting but the story sucked.

Stunningly boring...

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