The Shadow Militia

The Thousand Year Night

By: Skip Coryell

Narrated by: George Kuch

Six months earlier, in The God Virus, the lights went out across America, throwing our country into turmoil and chaos, unleashing the demons of a million souls upon an unsuspecting humanity.

Dan Branch and his family, caught in the meat grinder of societal collapse, battled their way back home, only to find a new and greater threat waiting for them.

Once again, Dan and his family must fight for survival against impossible odds. But this time, they are not alone. Their enemy is powerful and cruel, but now Dan is joined by an even greater source of good, evening the odds and giving them a fighting chance. As the Golden Horde marches toward them, leaving death, suffering and destruction in its path, The Shadow Militia takes charge!

©2013 Skip Coryell (P)2013 Skip Coryell

Great sequel to The God Virus! (Book 2 of3)

Written with deep military experience and understanding, you can tell Skip Coryell is an ex-Marine. His detail work on the weaponry involved in modern combat is outstanding. More surprising is his advanced literary knowledge and writing skill. Fans of Mitch Rapp and the deceased author Vince Flynn would love this short series of 3 books.

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An engaging story.

Absolutely fabulous book with a great story, believable characters, and perfect narration. An absolute star in dystopian books.

Good story, well narrated

Assume no editor since there are a lot of grammatical issues. That aside, I like when there are details of how problems are solved without forcing you to completely suspend belief as this story did.

Good story, awful narration

This is basically the same review I wrote for the first book because my issues with it are identical, although Kuch does a much worse job in the sequel than he does in the original.

The militia ideas are really good, and the ending of the book makes me want to look for another volume to find out what the big secrets are. The problem is, I will absolutely not buy another Coryell book if it is narrated by George Kuch.

Also, I will say that the bad guys in this book are very underdeveloped and one-dimensional.

For me, where this book completely fell apart was with George Kuch and his awful narration. When you listen to this book, Kuch sounds as if he has never read anything out loud before. He stumbles through sentences, fumbles over words, and pronounces things however he likes. He adds pauses where none are intended or appropriate, and rushes while speaking in the most awkward of times.

The worst part about this is that had there been a director or producer involved in the production of this book, they would have said, "Wait George, we need to re-record that paragraph because you made about four mistakes." The issue here is that George just plows through and leaves the errors as-is. Either he doesn't realize how bad he is, or he doesn't care.

Then in the end, the author of this book, Skip Coryell, holds the production copyright. That means that Coryell paid Kuch to do the narration, and accepted this awful production as-is. If I were the author, I would have rejected this out of had, and made Kuch go back and fix every one of his errors so my hard work as an author doesn't sound like it was produced by some first-time New Yorker who stumbles and fumbles and makes every single character sound like they too are from urban New York.

terrible

if you like dystopian fiction, pick any other series. there is no real backstory on how/why society has collapsed. why is there no societal structure but all the groups have vehicles, fuel, weapons, etc...