
Dark Island
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Narrated by:
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Michael Lesley
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By:
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Matt James
About this listen
Like the "Dark Continent" of Africa, the dark island of Madagascar holds many chilling secrets. One of them is a long-thought extinct species of dinosaurs living at the country's core.
A massive earthquake rocks the mountain range within the Andringitra National Park. The splitting Earth reveals a network of tunnels, hidden away for millennia. Responding to the series of violent upheavals, a pack of hypersensitive predators flee their subterranean home; frenzied and hungry, they head for the surface.
Former Navy SEAL Ian Hunt begrudgingly accepts an offer to lead an exploratory team. What they uncover is the find of a lifetime... if they survive long enough to tell anyone.
Dinosaurs are alive and well at the heart of the dark island.
©2018 Matt James; Copyright 2018 by Severed Press (P)2019 TantorBook 1
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Fast paced, with dinosaurs.
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Straightforward writing with no wasted words, good characterisation and a story so far fetched even the bad was good.
The downside of this experience was not in the writing, it was in the narration. While Michael Lesley has a fine voice (being Australian myself, his interpretation of Abigail’s “Aussie” accent leaves a LOT to be desired), the pacing of his reading threw me off BIG TIME. So many unnecessary pauses at the most in opportune times and oddly placed inflections took me right out of the world setting I should have, by all accounts, been immersed in.
I have no idea, whatsoever, if that was a one-off or if it’s just his style but I was not receptive to it at all.
Fine, far fetched fable…but narration leaves much to be desired.
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the entire story sounded like it was written as a year 8 school assignment.
bit of a slog
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Dark Island
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Slow moving
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no no no no
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