The Tusks of Extinction

De: Ray Nayler

Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.

The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.

Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold?

And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?

A tense eco-thriller from a new master of the genre.

©2024 Ray Nayler (P)2024 Spotify Audiobooks

great story ruined by awful audio choices

The audio is truly awful. One narrator has a low voice, and it sounds like they put it through a cheap bass amplifier. The other narrator's audio sounds cute off at the top. The only reason I didn't return it, is the story is fantastic.

Thought provoking and a little heart rending

I read this following Naylers The Mountain in the Sea. Both are engaging discussions on conservation and biosemiotics. Careful and thorough research went into the world creation. I think story might have been sacrificed a little bit for the sake of furthering a dialogue and presenting consideration of important issues, but it’s still a great read. The readers of this one are interesting choices bringing real depth to the words, and their way of reading highlights the worldliness that I believe is the authors intention. As an American, I’m used to hearing things a certain way and being taken out of that norm just by the readers voices alone added something to the book I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.

I kept asking myself, “Wait, what?”

This book did not hold my attention. The main character gets put in a mammoth. That should be wildly interesting. It wasn’t. I kept expecting… I don’t know. Something thought provoking? I love this author but this book absolutely could not keep my attention. I wanted to love it. I wanted to be absorbed. I ended up being completely aware I was listening to an audiobook the entire time. It bordered on background noise for me.

If you liked Mountain in the Sea, you’ll like this

Excellent! This short book is chock full of good stuff, and had my interest from beginning to end. Its premise is a subject I was already interested in, and Ray Nayler didn’t disappoint. I usually listen to audiobooks while doing house work; it’s a rare thing that I get so into something that I just stop, sit down somewhere (the ground lol) and listen. The narration is tip-top as well.

Disappointing

It was an ok listen but I'm not sure what the point was. Overall it struck me as preachy and unimaginative. Not remotely on the same level as The Mountain in the Sea in my opinion.