Blackout Obscura
The Dark Places Trilogy
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S. G. Mark
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Society is broken, lying in the rubble of a global economic crash. Unemployment, suspicion and terrorism are interwoven like threads in a tapestry. On a dark night in Edinburgh, an explosion rocks Jack's world to the core and he is soon enveloped into the shadowy fringes of the law as he seeks to discover the truth behind what happened. Confronting the culture of fear that has evolved in the country fraught with terrorism and rioting, Jack faces the brutality and prejudice of the new United Kingdom as well as keeping his own disturbing past from surfacing: a secret that could lead to an even darker future.
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'It's been 11 months since I sat in my teenage bedroom and my mundane life was cast into madness. I suppose you could argue it was a lot longer if you include the 30-year trip back to 1986.' After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired. Does he face a bleak, lonely future, or does he try to seek answers? Either way, an emotional roller coaster beckons.
By: Keith A. Pearson
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After Anna
- By: Alex Lake
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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The real nightmare starts when her daughter is returned.... A bone-chilling psychological thriller that will suit fans of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Daughter by Jane Shemilt, and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. A girl is missing. Five years old, taken from outside her school. She has vanished, traceless. The police are at a loss; her parents are beyond grief. Their daughter is lost forever, perhaps dead, perhaps enslaved.
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My feedback..2 overall
- By Haneet on 09-05-16
By: Alex Lake
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The Forgotten Village
- By: Lorna Cook
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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1943: the world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it’s pushing her and Liam to the brink.
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Ridiculous
- By christina on 06-06-23
By: Lorna Cook
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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Stunning debut
- By Mystery Maven on 11-18-16
By: Helen Callaghan
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No Name Lane
- By: Howard Linskey
- Narrated by: David Leon
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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The hunt for a serial killer unearths an unsolved cold case from over 60 years ago. Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the Northeast. Out of favour detective constable Ian Bradshaw struggles to find any leads - and fears that the only thing this investigation will unravel is himself. Journalist Tom Carney is suspended by his London tabloid and returns to his home village in County Durham. Helen Norton is the reporter who replaced Tom on the local newspaper. Together they are drawn into a case that will change their lives forever.
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A Lot to Like, but Weak Narration
- By Carole T. on 07-18-16
By: Howard Linskey
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The Girl Who Lied
- By: Sue Fortin
- Narrated by: Amy De Bhrún
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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The truth hurts.... Erin and Roisin were friends until a fatal accident ruined both their lives. Now Roisin has discovered a secret - one Erin has kept for over a decade - and she's determined to make Erin pay for her lies. Erin wants nothing to do with Roisin. She has a new life in London and no intention of going back home. Yet when her father is mysteriously and critically injured, Erin has no choice but to return and face Roisin - and her past.
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Overall Mediocre, Slow Moving
- By David on 01-07-17
By: Sue Fortin
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Sister Sister
- A truly absorbing psychological thriller
- By: Sue Fortin
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Alice: beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare: intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous. Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life. Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family. One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac. Two sisters. One truth.
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Wow, that was intense!
- By Wayne on 04-21-17
By: Sue Fortin
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Left for Dead
- A Maeve Kerrigan Novella
- By: Jane Casey
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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A violent rapist is attacking women, leaving them for dead on south London streets. When young policewoman Maeve Kerrigan responds to a domestic disturbance, she's horrified to stumble across the latest victim. But as a new recruit - and a female to boot - she'll have to face down not only her own nerves but rampant sexism from her colleagues if she wants to be taken seriously enough to even assist on the case.
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Waste of time & $
- By Mary Ann on 12-11-16
By: Jane Casey
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The Ghosts of Belfast
- By: Stuart Neville
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Fegan has been a "hard man" - an IRA killer in Northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by 12 ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. As he's working his way down the list, he encounters a woman who may offer him redemption; she has borne a child to an RUC officer and is an outsider too.
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don't judge by its cover
- By connie on 01-05-13
By: Stuart Neville
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The Woman at 72 Derry Lane
- By: Carmel Harrington
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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On a leafy suburban street in Dublin, beautiful, poised Stella Greene lives with her successful husband, Matt. They're the perfect couple in every way, and Stella appears to have it all. Next door, at number 72, however, lives Rea Brady. Gruff, bad tempered and rarely seen besides the twitching of her net curtains, rumour has it she's lost it all...including her marbles, if you believe the neighbourhood gossip. But appearances can be deceiving, and when Stella and Rea's worlds collide they realise they have much in common.
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So much emotion, I was not prepared
- By RedLady on 08-29-18
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- Midwestbonsai
- 07-25-18
Not your traditional post-apocalyptic story
Blackout Obscura written S.G. Mark narrated by Guy Kelly. The story is set in Edinburgh, Scotland after a global economic collapse. People are on limited food ration cards, jobs are in short supply, and families forced to take in lodgers in their home to supplement their incomes. This is how Jack meets his new family Liza, Alex, and Maggie. Not everyone in the country is happy with the way the system is set up. There are terrorist organizations working against the government and its strangled hold and its citizens.
Jack is a man with a hidden past that he keeps from everyone. He works at a postal sorting Center. Jack has few friends but he gets by. his life is a dull routine day after day. The family he lives with provides plenty of drama to keep him busy and entertained. The most recent bombing shakes him to his core because Alex was at the place that was bombed. The country is in a dark place, with a tightening of restrictions.
Alex is a reporter for one of the country’s newspapers. The country is moving in a very dark direction as Jack can easily see after being falsely arrested by one of the government’s antiterrorist police units. He is only released with the help of Alex. The terror he experiences at the hands of the officers who wrongly interrogated him and held him for over 12 hours completely changes his views of the government and those that are taken into custody. Jack is also treated completely different by his coworkers because he was taken into custody even though he was not charged. In this new world perception is the reality. You are guilty until proven innocent.
This is not a traditional post-apocalyptic audiobook. It probably the most realistic look at what a slow economic collapse would like on the scale of the countries in the United Kingdom. This is a more human story showing the frailty of the human condition. How people would turn on each other during the collapse because of the starvation, the paranoia, and the belief that someone else had more than them at that they had the right to it.
The audiobook does an excellent job of holding the listener’s attention. There is a lot of drama and interpersonal struggle and strife to keep the listener glued to their headphones. The thought of a collapse like this happening in the United States is very daunting. The interpersonal struggles of the characters did become a bit tedious at times to hear. The setting of the book in the UK makes for some interesting character choices some listeners may have trouble relating to how these characters interrelate. There is less action overall than most post-apocalyptic fiction but it does not detract from the overall story. The story is character-driven and centers for on Jack and his secrets and the effect of those secrets on everyone around him.
Guy Kelly provides the narration for this audiobook. This is the first time I have heard a performance from Mr. Kelly. I very much enjoyed his performance and would enjoy listening to more of his audio performances. Mr. Kelly fully brought these characters to life and made the listener feel the wretchedness of the world these characters lived in. I was able to empathize with Jack and understand how horrible his world was and his choices he made to try to make a better life for himself even at the cost his choices made for others. The production value of this was good there very no noticeable noise or defects and the multiple books switched seamlessly.
Audiobook was provided for review by the author/narrator/publisher.
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