Caught Up
The End Is Here: Book 2
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Caught Up
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Narrated by:
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Mike Whitehead
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By:
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Joshua Stefan
A Christian, dystopian, end times, apocalyptic novel.
In Book 2 of The End Is Here, the situation on earth continues to decay. Violence, famine, disease, wild animals, and cosmic cataclysm ravage the people of the world.
Infrastructure continues to deteriorate, fewer resources are available. Disease spreads. Gangs rise up. Hungry animals make their way into cities to find food. An enormous earthquake, falling stars, and next level war.
- Is this your future?
Then there are those who are caught up.
- Is that your future instead?
Continue getting to know the characters of book 1 and meet some new ones as well. Learn of their suffering as they struggle to survive with each step as more wrath of God is poured out, and people fight to survive.
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Writing quality is equivalent to that of the first book: lots of basic grammatical errors, stilted dialogue, timing and other inconsistencies, worthless adjectives ("high tech" adds nothing but a vague sense that the author wants us to visualize something sophisticated, but is unable to describe exactly what it is himself), and ambiguous pronoun usage. In one fight the protagonist and antagonists were both referred to repeatedly as "they" and "them", so after the second sentence I completely lost track of who was doing what to whom. The falling "stars" part was a bit dodgy; the author doesn't even make an attempt to explain what these actually represent, so all we're left with is biblical imagery and a "smell of brimstone". And, again, there's no ending; it just stops mid-scene.
Oh, and some of the scenes just don't make any sense. Does the author know that cougars are big cats? They can jump 16-27 feet vertically. Getting on top of a pickup or RV is about as difficult for them as me climbing up a step ladder. The apocalyptic setting can conceivably explain their packing together like wolves and acting so aggressively, but I don't think it can excuse making them unable to climb or jump. Basically any other North American predator would have been a better choice than a cougar, but hiding / sheltering from any of them in the open bed of a pickup truck would be next to impossible, regardless.
"Help, help! I'm being attacked by half-a-dozen unusually aggressive apex predators who can jump three times my height. I know: I'll just climb onto the roof of this RV or into the bed of this pickup truck and then ... go to sleep." What on Earth was the author thinking?!
There's a different audiobook narrator this time around. He's fine. There are quite a few sections with words and sentences repeated. I'm not sure if these are narration errors or editing mishaps that the narrator reproduced faithfully.
Overall this is not quite as good as the first book.
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