Apocalypse Now Now Audiobook By Charlie Human cover art

Apocalypse Now Now

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Apocalypse Now Now

By: Charlie Human
Narrated by: David Atlas, Fiona Hardingham
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.16

Buy for $17.16

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

now now adv. a common South Africanism relating to the amount of time to elapse before an event occurs. In the near future; not happening presently but to happen shortly

Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. He's making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he's dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter who goes by the name of Jackson "Jackie" Ronin. Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save Esme. On a journey that takes them through the realms of impossibility, they must face every conceivable nightmare to get her back, including an odd brush with the apocalypse.

©2013, 2015 Charlie Human (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Horror Paranormal Paranormal & Urban Scary Urban Funny Witty
Refreshing Take • Engaging Plot • Excellent Narration • Interesting Themes • Dark Humor • Unpredictable Twists
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
I enjoyed the story but as a South African found the narration wanting. While the narrator's accents were not the worst attempts at South African accents I've heard. the pronunciation of South African names and terms was terrible, starting with mis-pronouncing the author's surname. Non South Africans will have no problem with the narration but South Africans will find the mis-pronunciations jarring as I did.

Needed South African narrators

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I actually enjoyed this story. But the narration made it difficult to finish. This is one I wish I had just actually read instead of listened too

the narrator.....

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story does lose its way and some tension in the third act. But with charming characters, fun world building and great use of San myth, I had a lot of fun.

Great fun

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
One of my favorite books la la la la la la 15 words come on

Love it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book was a really interesting book is started off very interesting in the sense of how he was negotiating high school and the different factions. Unfortunately did it had a hard shift towards the more scifi elements of the story and it felt like it was almost a different book. If he would have done a better job of connecting the high school group negotiations with the Sy fi fantasy elements of the book I probably would have given it 5 stars. Nevertheless the protagonist was a great anti-hero and I would love to see more stories about him.

Great potential but tried to do too much

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I am not sure if it is the author or narration, but the book feels flat. It is a bit disjointed as well. The disjointed nature is part of the story, but, especially near the end, it just didn't make much sense.

Kinda monotonous

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I'm sure poor Charlie Human (pronounced he-mun) wrote something worth reading. I'll just never find out by listening to David Atlas butchering the South African accents in this book. My poor ears! It was like listening to Keanu Reeves' British accent in Dracula. Was it that hard to at least try and pronounce some of the names and surnames correctly? South Africa has many talented voice actors. Shame on Audible and Amazon for using a non-native to narrate one of the few South African books in their catalogue that wasn't written before the year 2000.

There are South African narrators! Use them!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I was taken by surprise. I started the book without reading the full synopsis of the story. And I have to say this series (two books only so far) is a refreshing take on magic that doesn’t constrain itself to the commonly expected happy fuzzy feelings. It’s raw and unafraid to go beyond whys expected and delivers and engaging story with welcomed adult humor and emotions.

Unapologetically gritty and entertaining

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
if you like narcasist crazy main characters, you'll love this book. imaginative and creative world.

amazing narrator, enjoyable story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed this book but there were times when I found it to be a little too slow for me. Eventually it picked up enough to keep me engaged and reading. There were some interesting plot twists that made the book more interesting and exciting, as I progressed into it.
Overall I found the book to be a good listen and would not hesitate to recommend it to friends or family.

Enjoyed This Title

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews