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The Missing Boatman

By: Keith C. Blackmore
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
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When Death goes on strike, some rejoice—while others await the return of his icy grip—in this dark fantasy novel from the author of Mountain Man.

In the dead of winter, on a highway in Quebec, a man crashes his car and survives. In New York, a homeless person is run over by a bus and lives. A teenager jumps off a high-rise building in Tokyo and fails in her attempt to take her own life. All around the world, miracles like these are taking place. Death seems to have taken a holiday, and humanity breathes a sigh of relief.

But over the course of the next week, some people will begin to suspect the terrible truth behind these marvels. A handful will even search it out. One man will find it. In seven days, all hell will break loose—and nothing, living or dead, can escape its fury.

©2013 Keith C. Blackmore (P)2018 Podium Publishing Horror Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Fiction
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It's a solid story, but I found the reading had a robotic voice and long pauses which caused it to be hard to listen to at first.

good story but the reading was lacking

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The cadence of the narrator reading is unnatural and difficult to listen to for long periods of this audiobook. Extended gaps between sentences and unnecessary extending words with a rumbling throat grumbles like an annoying news reader. Possibly intentional to explain the main character but very annoying to listen to. The character voices however are great.
Such a shame as I can’t get enough of KCB’s creations. I will be adding this to the ‘must read instead’ unless a rerelease happens at some point.

Cadence of narrator is difficult to listen to

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I have listened to all of Mr. Blackmore's books and have enjoyed them all. This one, however, was different. I liked the story itself, but the narrator's speech patterns were annoying. In fact, I nearly stopped listening after the first ten minutes. Because I've liked all Blackmore's previous books, I did stick with it, though. After a while, I became more used to the narrator's poor reading style. If this had been read by someone like R.C. Bray, it would be five stars all around. My advice is, even if you find the narrator as annoying as I did, stick with it. The book is worth putting up with his poor reading.

Good story, bad narrator.

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Awesome story great characters
Loved the fun and easy flowing take however the narrator took some getting used too and we’ll never really impressed me

Good book tho

Just push through the readers voice... the way he ends sentences... awful

Great story

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I found this book disappointing. The annoying narrator aside, the story was really not up to the same standard as previous books by this author.

not up to the usual standard

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