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Ashes Trilogy, Book 2
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Katherine Kellgren
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Ilsa J. Bick
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The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive.
Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she’d come to love.
But she was wrong.
Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don’t trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive. Welcome to Shadows, the second book in the haunting, apocalyptic Ashes Trilogy: Where no one is safe and humans may be the worst of the monsters.
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- L. Morrow
- 12-11-13
Unfortunately this book was unbelievable for me.
Would you try another book from Ilsa J. Bick and/or Katherine Kellgren?
Maybe.
What do you think your next listen will be?
Not sure yet.
Which character – as performed by Katherine Kellgren – was your favorite?
Tom
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Unsure.
Any additional comments?
The narrator was excellent! Highly recommend her reading books. But the story was just lacking and unbelievable. I love fiction, technology, etc... I love scifi, fantasy, you name it. But you have to mold a realistic story around those elements to lure me in. And I felt like the supporting characters were just too over the top. It seemed like 9/10th's of the elderly in this book suddenly became sadistic, diabolic & evil. Just didn't feel real to me.
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- Timothy J.
- 11-03-16
Great story!
Just like book one, leaves you wanting more. Just when you think they'll never make out alive they do but never unscratched.
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- Justin
- 07-14-18
Good but not as great.
This was a good continuation of Ashes, but not as great. The author tells the story from too many perspectives. At least 6 different people. It makes it very difficult to follow along with what’s going on with each person last time you left off with them.
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- Amanda
- 11-28-12
I really got into this one.
I was really worried upon reading the reviews for this book. People were complaining that it was confusing and difficult to read. But I didn't find that so.
Katherine didn't excellent job of reading.
The story is meant to be fast paced. It's a zombie scary type book.
It's not a love story at least not in classical sense. The authors conveying essence of danger and confusion.
I recommend this book to the apocalypse readers and horror fans. I see the storyline going somewhere and I'm going to follow.
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- SG from. Mississippi
- 10-27-15
The Ashes Series
I loved the books but was not happy with the narrator.
She just was not right for these books.
It needed someone with a softer tone and more like Alex would have been.
Or like Tom.
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- Marcus
- 12-27-12
Such a disappointment
What did you like best about Shadows? What did you like least?
What I liked best were the moments where actual story was being developed. The moments where more of the event that began this tale was explained.
What I liked least was just about everything else. We jumped from party to party with each chapter seeming to NEED to end with a corny cliffhanger (made worse by the reader who is always over dramatic to the point of making you want to cringe). Throw in more plot twists and secrets than an Oceans Eleven movie and it gets very tiring.
The story also starts delving more into the backstory of the town our "heroin" entered in the second half of the last tale. As that part of book 1 was the most uninteresting, this is most unwelcome.
Our "heroin" is also pretty annoying, selfish and wimpy.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
The most interesting were the developments in the story of the pulse that created the mess the world is currently in.
The least was all the backstory of Rule and it's kids and elders and the treachery and blah blah blah.
Would you be willing to try another one of Katherine Kellgren’s performances?
I try to avoid her when possible. She nearly ruined the Blackout series for me.
Do you think Shadows needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Well, since it's a trilogy, it will get a follow up book (and this one ended on a cliff hanger of course), but I'm not at all looking forward to it.
Any additional comments?
Not looking forward to the conclusion. I may read it at some point, but I feel like the author has pulled a bait and switch on the whole premise of the tale.
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- Valerie Torrez
- 12-24-16
love it
just finished the second book can't wait to get to the final and third book
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- Book Junkie
- 10-20-12
amazing follow up
can wait for the next book, once agian a great book and amazing narration, much more violent and gory than the first book, can't wait for the next book, i would really like to know if anyone survives!
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- Mish
- 12-08-18
good but not as good as first. Narrator is amazin
good but not as good as first. Narrator is amazing. i will look her up.
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- Robyn
- 03-13-15
So tense
The story line is exciting and very tense in that, apart from the main characters, I am never sure who are the good guys. I found that the constant plot tension, with very little release, to be way too much. Rather than making me want to keep listening to find out what happens next, it made me want to throw the phone against the wall.
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