Boxed Set, The Darwin's World Series: Includes Darwin's World, The Trek, and Home

By: Jack L Knapp

Narrated by: Tom Lennon

Three complete novels. Thirty-three hours of survival action. If you're a fan of Robert A. Heinlein, Jean Auel, and S. M. Stirling, you're going to love Jack L Knapp. Thousands of copies have been downloaded. This is survivalism at its best...in an Earth that never knew humans!

Darwin's World: Imagine being transplanted to a virgin planet during the Ice Age with nothing more than a knife and hatchet! Perfect freedom to live or die! Alone, surrounded by saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, giant bears, and predatory humans!

The Trek: The only hope for survival is to find a place that can be defended. Even if it means traveling across Texas in the dead of an ice age winter....

Home: Building new homes and finding food and firewood is only the beginning. A society to the south survives by raiding and slavery. The first captives from the tribe have already been taken....

©2016 Jack L Knapp (P)2017 Jack L Knapp

Please read reviews on the narrator

I wanted to like this book, the story is intriguing and with a different narrator I am sure I would have loved it. I hate to give poor reviews, as these are the creative works of which their creators are proud, but the narration is to the point that I just cannot listen any longer. It sounds like the automated robots of early sci-fi movies. Honestly, I believe just feeding the script through Siri would have produced a better narrating effect. At least with Siri you can change her accents.

I got through the first of the three books but I just can’t take the narrator. The story has promise so it is disappointing to me to give a poor review, as I would have liked to at least finish the book, but alas I just cannot complete the book and will have to return it.

Good book

I liked the book but the guy reading it just didn't fit. He made it really hard to get through, they should have gotten someone else to perform it.

Okay until the very end.

The story was very good until the final scene when the author made it completely 'jump the shark'. I guess he was going for a memorable twist; but, instead was a turn-off that spoiled the whole experience.

Great story

Chosen Time Period is refreshing and novel. Storyline is good. Narrator suffers a bit. He doesnt change his tone and pitch to the situation. For example, he sounds the same whether he is describing an intense hand-to-hand battle and a beautiful sunset. Imagine listening to him narate a horrific battle using the same voice as you would hear watching rhe kid's show Thomas the Tank Engine. Story is still worth the purchase and time. I enjoyed it.

Great until the very end

The story is a solid survivalistic scenario.
The narration was fairly bland but listenable.
However the ending and I literally mean the last paragraph demolished everything and is quite insulting to those of faith in my opinion, why would the writer do this?
Cannot recommend...

Unique in many ways

Usually any book with time travel as the basis for the entire plot is more than enough to get my interest. Here add in everything you ever wanted to know about stone age man, a little sex, some big fight scenes with extinct predators, and a study in building a working society from scratch. What's not to like?

My only complaint might be it is almost too educational in some ways. I really didn't need to know all that much about making a fire.

Loved the narration. There were dozens of characters coming and going through the three books contained in this set yet I always knew who was talking.

good story, slightly bland narration

the book has good progression, consistent character development, solid story arcs. the only real issue is that the narrator, while good with different voices, and not flat, does need a little more practice with emotional and tonal inflection to make the characters feelings pop.

Have never before been so annoyed by narration!

It was really hard to tell the quality of the writing/story because the narration drove me crazy. Bad and inconsistent accents, emphasis on all the wrong words, sounded like he was reading to or like a child! I guess the plot was good enough for me to finish it despite my annoyance but barely.

Anti Christian

Wa enjoying until last chapter when story said Jesus and Mary Magdalin were kidnapped by people from the future and had a love child.

Narrator Reads Like a 3rd Grader

Or a VERY BORING documentary narrator telling us about sedate wildlife. I probably would have stuck it out if the reader wasn't such a snooze fest and made it sound like literature for a ten year old. That being said, the first hour or so would be appropriate for a ten year old. There is a lot to learn about living in an ice age but rather than compare it to S.M.Sterling the previewers should have stuck to Jean Auel as it is more like hers in the sense of exploring how to live more primitively. However Auel's work is much richer in detail and depth of character as well as plot; more well developed and researched.