Dark Harvest Rebellion

Adaptives, Book 1

By: Christopher Hopper

Narrated by: Christopher Hopper, Jennifer Hopper

Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Rated: MA-17

Gore, language, violence

"Think Saw and The Hunger Games had a comedically gritty sci-fi lovechild."—Wayne Thomas Batson, Best-selling author of Outcast, The Door Within Trilogy, and Myridian Constellation

People wake up to find themselves in a square room with one wall about to rise.

On the other side?

An alien monster and a fight for survival.

Gabriel Stone, an active duty US Marine, and Chloe Lidell, a resourceful Texas farm girl, are thrust into a deadly game where each round is more perilous than the last.

All they have to do is stay alive.

Joined by a band of misfits—including a lovable service droid named Shit Bot—Gabriel and Chloe must navigate treacherous rounds, form alliances, and uncover a diabolical alien agenda. With every victory, they edge closer to the heart of the mystery…

But survival is not guaranteed, and death is a breath away.

Can Gabriel and Chloe outsmart their captors and save those they love?

With an audio version narrated by husband and wife team Christopher and Jennifer Hopper, dive into your next intergalactic saga, Dark Harvest Rebellion, and join the fight for humanity's future!

©2024 Somnium Publishing/HGC, LLC (P)2024 Somnium Publishing/HGC, LLC

Nonstop Awesome

Another series, yet another win for Christopher Hopper & the Hopper creative group. From start to finish, Dark Harvest is an action packed thrill ride filled with twists and fascinating characters, moments, and danger. It’s everything you’ve come to expect from Christopher Hopper, and then some!

Loved it -

Great storyline, fun characters, action from start to . I can’t wait for the next audio book. Audio performance was fantastic as well.

Another great Hopper story!!!

Awesome story as always. Keep ‘em coming. I can’t wait for the next book in this series.

Powerful Action Packed Sci-Fi Thriller!

Dark Harvest Rebellion is a gritty, Sci-Fi Alien Invasion, action thriller, that from the very first moments of the story, you find yourself in riveting, heart-pounding scenes, so good, you can’t just can’t put the book down.
The story is told from multiple characters points of view, the two main characters being Gabriel Stone, and Chloe Lidell.
Gabriel and Chloe wake up to find themselves in rooms in a cubed shaped room, with no idea how they came to be there. When one side of the room opens, they think they are going to get an explanation, but instead, they have to fight something horrendously alien, to the death.
With little more than the things in their pockets, and their wits, they soon realise that they are in some sort of challenge for their lives, one in which their competition is not of this earth. As each round ends, the room gets bigger, and they are joined by first the survivors of each other round, and then a new round of challengers.
Gabriel is a US marine, and faces the challenges head-on. Chloe is a Texas farm girl, not afraid to get her hands dirty, and together, they manage to unite a small band of people who have been taken from a variety of backgrounds to face these deadly challenges. Each person brings something unique, including one person, who manages to co-op one of the ships robots, who they lovingly name “shit-bot”, due to its unique characteristics.
This is a brutal, gritty action story, one in which the characters fight to the death, and you have no idea who is going to live or die from one chapter to the next. It is rare in a book that the major characters are killed off with such regularity, but the Hunger Games has nothing on this story.
As with all of Hopper’s stories, one of the really great aspects of this story is the characters. Gabriel is brilliant as the stoic marine, faced with a unique, dynamic and unknown situation, he takes it head-on. When he realises that there are civilians in danger, he does all he can to protect them, at the risk of his own life, knowing his training is far superior in the circumstances. Gabriel, as most long term soldiers, has a history, and things that haunt him.
Chloe is the really brilliant character in this story though. Chloe has a past as well, and that gives her an advantage in this situation. But it comes at a cost. Watching Chloe’s character unfold, watching her internal struggle as she fights for her life, against something that she can’t explain, and then tries desperately to save others, whilst battling demons from her past, makes for a captivating read. Chloe’s character is outstanding, and is Hopper at his absolute best.
There are multiple other exceptional characters in this story, including the alien abductor, one of the other points of view we get to read, which makes for a fascinating insight into both sides of the story. I don’t want to give too much away though.
The world building is masterful, with daunting alien constructs that would terrify anyone. The fight scenes are incredibly well described, so that you feel like you are right in the core of the battles (and at times, covered in either blood, gore, or something completely alien). This is an intense at times, very brutal book, with graphic scenes, and is for a more mature audience. Having said that, it has been written in a way so that the fight scenes are not over-the-top.
This is like the Hunger Games, but using Aliens instead of other contestants, just to see how a variety of human test subjects will go in brutal hand-to-hand combat. From the moment it starts, it is an outstanding, action-packed thrill-ride, with the exceptional characters we have come to expect from Hopper.
Not to be missed!
The Narration performed by Christopher Hopper and Jennifer Hopper is some of the best voice acting I have listened to on an audiobook since I started listening to Sci-Fi audiobooks. Christopher Hopper has a brilliant voice, and a fantastic range of voices, bringing to life all of the male roles in the story (both human and alien), and so you can clearly tell who is talking, without having to be told. He clearly conveys the emotional state of the characters as well. His portrayal of Gabriel is incredibly gritty, and really brings the marine to life.
The standout though is Jennifer Hopper. She has a stunning voice that you can listen to for hours, and does an outstanding job with creating each of the female voices, providing different voices for each character, some with different accents. It is her portrayal of Chloe though that is the real showstopper, as it is so incredibly powerful in certain scenes, some in which you don’t want to be out in public whilst you are listening to this.
Chloe’s performance is one of the best female characters I have heard narrated in a sci-fi series.
This is one book that it is an absolute MUST to listen to, as the audiobook is so much better than reading it (I have done both), with the Narration bringing so much more to the characters and the story. An absolute MUST LISTEN!!

What an adventure!

If a book could be a first person shooter sci fi video game, this would be it! Right from the start, Hopper’s writing pulls on the emotions that could trigger ptsd flash backs in the toughest war veterans, and then brings you right back into the full on action of a sci fi battle. The story is amazing, and you won’t want to stop listening. I know of no other author who’s writing and narrating as well as he is. Then enter his co narrator Jennifer, who in her audible debut knocks it out of the park! You won’t want to miss this one!

Another Hit from Christopher Hopper

What a great story! Grabs you from the beginning and doesn't disappoint throughout. A new World and a new Series from the wonderous mind of Christopher Hopper. ALSO, the debut of his beautiful wife

Suspenseful

Enjoyed this new adventure and looking forward to upcoming sequels. Nice to have both of you working together on the narrative reading. Great work! Couple concerns that came up when listening:
Hard to get into the duel monologues of thoughts/feelings prior to characters voicing these with words but it was easier by end of book.
Also was difficult to deal with the ship’s AI due to everything sounding like a question even when you knew it was a statement or command due to elevated fluctuations with the word captain. All in all, was a fabulous book. Thanks for all the hard work and your creativity!

Slow start thrilling ending.

Slow burn until chapter ten when the story picked up pace and kept me in the edge of my seat.