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The Cavern

By: Alister Hodge
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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When a sink hole opens up near the Australian outback town of Pintalba, it uncovers a pristine cave system. Sam joins an expedition to explore the subterranean passages as paramedic support, hoping to remain unneeded at base camp. But, when one of the cavers is injured, he must overcome paralyzing claustrophobia to dive pitch-black waters and squeeze through the bowels of the earth.

Soon he will find there are fates worse than being buried alive, for in the abandoned mines and caves beneath Pintalba, there are ravenous teeth in the dark.

As a savage predator targets the group with hideous ferocity, Sam and his friends must fight for their lives if they are ever to see the sun again.

©2019 Alister Hodge (P)2020 Tantor Adventure Fiction Horror Science Fiction Scary Monster Horror
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Fortunately, I found "The Cavern" in the included with your membership section and discovered a new author. The Australian narration made the story more enjoyable and authentic. The premise has a potential for a great series.

An Intriguing Mystery

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I got this as a freebie on Audible members & what a fast paced exciting book. I loved it & listened to it in 2 sittings as it dragged me into the caves!
Will be checking out more books by this author it's not usual genre so another reason to widen my library 😀

Great read.

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Inflections used in every sentence were distracting and frustrating to listen to. Story was a bit of a high school horror but a good enough romp.

Bit of a romp

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I enjoyed this book, the accent was just right and added the flavour to bring the story to life.

so Australian

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The characters are super well developed and pull you into the story incredibly well, making the impossible breathe and feel like you should never enter any kind of cavern ever.

A chilling and well designed romp

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I loved this book, exciting and terrifying.
I really loved the fact it was located in Australia in the outback about Australians with a Aussie accent. The narrator was great too. I will be reading more from this author. This would make a great movie.

Great Aussie horror

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blood awful Australian accents and mediocre predictable story line. Hopefully the next effort is better

predictable

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As an Australian, I really wanted to love this but I just couldn't get into it.
There are some uses of language/description that just seemed very unnaturally written and made the story jarring in places. There are way too many points of view for my liking, and most of the characters are not fleshed out.
It wasn't terrible and I know this will be a favourite of certain people but it didn't do it for me.
The narrator did a good job, no complaints in that regard.

Too Many POV's

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Australian accent was too distracting. Is he English, kiwi or Aussie. Had to DNF at 25%

Bad Aussie accent

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while I can very much appreciate what the author was trying to do with the story, it reads very much like they are just telling us a story and not showing us which makes the whole thing a bit of a slog unfortunately.

tell and not show

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