The Unnoticeables: A Novel

The Vicious Circuit, Book 1

De: Robert Brockway

Narrado por: Nick Podehl, Emily Foster, Scott Merriman

From Robert Brockway, Sr. Editor and Columnist of Cracked.com, comes The Unnoticeables, a funny and frightening urban fantasy.

There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns and remove the redundancies, and the problem that is "you" gets solved.

Carey doesn't much like that idea. As a punk living in New York City, 1977, Carey is sick and tired of watching strange kids with unnoticeable faces abduct his friends. He doesn't care about the rumors of tar-monsters in the sewers or unkillable psychopaths invading the punk scene - all he wants is to drink cheap beer and dispense ass-kickings.

Kaitlyn isn't sure what she's doing with her life. She came to Hollywood in 2013 to be a stunt woman, but last night a former teen heartthrob tried to eat her, her best friend has just gone missing, and there's an angel outside her apartment. Whatever she plans on doing with her life, it should probably happen in the few remaining minutes she has left.

There are angels. There are demons. They are the same thing. It's up to Carey and Kaitlyn to stop them. The survival of the human race is in their hands.

We are, all of us, well and truly screwed.

©2015 Robert Brockway (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Maybe Angels are Dangerous

it was an great idea but only an ok story to tell it. performances were good though and made it an entertaining story. glad I bought it as a daily deal versus using an entire credit.

I didn't get it

the script was sophomoric. it was entertaining, but I really didn't get the point of the story

Thoughtless story, solid performances

did not finish. it doesnt take much critical thinking for every bit of this story to fall to pieces. it's pulp reading at best.

Slow start but overall entertaining

it took me awhile to get into it, maybe two to three chapters but ended up being very entertaining.

Very solid opening book for a series.

This book started out slow, I've been reading Brockway for years and I was fully aware of his twin loves (nostalgia and alcohol). So I have him the benefit of the doubt, one the pace picked up so did my interest in the book. Very weak start(which could be due to my unfamiliarity with the punk scene) very strong finish.

A Wasted Life's False Afterglow

The writer is very good as well as the narrators. Unfortunately, the story itself was written like the author's target audience was meant for people who lived a mostly wasted life and who would revel in a fantasy novel that gave meaning to their decisions to start out on a negative spiral and never give a thought to digging their way out of it.

Weak Story Line

Good idea but I feel like the author dropped the ball when it came to bringing everything together. Something maybe a first-time writer would put together.

I loved it, so punk

The noble nature of a nihilist punk and his quest to just do whatever so pleases against the unstoppable cosmic forces conspiring against him.

Interesting, but hard to follow

The premise is very intriguing, but I thought the execution was a little lacking. It was difficult to follow; the exposition was sporadic and confusing. Overall, I suppose I did enjoy it, and will probably give it another listen at a later date.

Not terrible , just predictable.

I would have given the story two stars but I could see the author improving with subsequent books.

The environments and tone were good. I enjoyed authentic references to non obvious old punk bands(Dead Boys, Rocket From The Tombs) and locations (Max's).

Unfortunately the plot was pretty predictable with everything being invincible until it wasn't.