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A Dystopian Thriller
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Patrick Skelton
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For Nathan Gallagher, life on post-solar flare Earth just took a turn for the worse.
In the near future, barrier domes shield Earth's wealthiest cities from catastrophic solar flares, but only the healthy elite are granted protection. Those who are unable to prove their ability to work are sent to live in the sanctuaries - camps outside the barrier domes where residents have little to no protection from flares. It’s brutal living there.
Nathan Gallagher is one of the lucky ones who lives inside a barrier. But his luck runs out when his adopted son suffers a paralyzing accident. He’s taken from his parents and sent to the sanctuaries where it’s only a matter of time before they kill him.
With only days until another flare is due to strike Earth’s sanctuary cities, not only does his son’s life hang in the balance but also the fate of a quarter billion people.
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Enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Barriers is an interesting and engaging Dystopian Thriller written by author Patrick Skelton. In this book, with the action set in the not too distant future, the Earth is dying as the Sun bombards it with solar flares for more than 50 years. With the majority of the population dead as a result of these catastrophic events, those left alive are hiding in man-made Barrier Cities, protected from the flares by huge domes that cover them. But, in these cities only the rich are welcomed and only those who can provide something for the community.
The story follows Nathan Gallagher and his family, as they try to save their impaired son from being sent away from the safe city to a relocation camp for those who can’t provide for themselves, but that could very well mean a death sentence for the young boy.
This is a dramatic, but uplifting story about love, about family, about the lengths a parent is willing to go to save the life of his adopted child. At the same time, this book touches on the human condition, on our humanity or the absence of it in some cases and, of course, on how power corrupts and how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The audiobook version of Barriers is narrated by voiceover artist Anthony Lee. He does a great job bringing all the characters to life with different voices and accents. Mr. Lee is using his sting strong and clear voice to the best effect and infuses urgency and emotion into the story, delivering a great narrative experience for the listener.
If you like post-apocalyptic thrillers, you might want to give Barriers a try. Both author and narrator have given their best for your enjoyment.
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Interesting and Engaging
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Good/different book
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It was refreshing to read a book with an original concept. Skelton's pacing is excellent, and we are treated to an ending that NO ONE saw coming. This is a great book.
Awesome Futuristic Novel
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Barriers is a Sci-Fi thriller written by Patrick Skelton and is the first book of the Solar Flare Trilogy. It showcases a world that has been consumed by solar flares. To protect the citizens of the world, or at least those able to pay, barrier domes are made to surround the wealthiest cities. For those less fortunate or those unable to contribute to society, they are left to live in the Sanctuaries without dome protection.
The story follows Nathan Gallagher who lives within the dome. However, when his son becomes paralyzed and unable to provide to society, the boy is sent to the Sanctuaries. With a new flare set to come soon, and a world government that is being manipulated, Nathan must find a way to save his son from the pending doom!
This audiobook was performed by narrator Anthony Lee. I’ll admit it took a bit for me to get used to his style of narration, but in the end I felt the performance was done well and the overall quality of the sound and editing was great. I am definitely interested to find out what happens in the next portion of the series and look forward to another performance from Mr. Lee. I was given a copy of this audiobook for review purposes and I am leaving a voluntary honest review.
Nice start to an interesting series
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This was an interesting dystopian story with additional elements, and I got sucked in completely from the start. The characters were not fully developed, but the events were interesting enough to keep me engaged. There were several twists and the intrigue was well built up from the beginning. The first two-thirds made this book a page-turner for me. Somehow, I lost interest towards the end. It might have been due too many genres mixed up in this book, and that things seemed less and less plausible. There were minor issues that I felt were stronger towards the end, like the fact that the story has an old fashion feeling, like old pulp novels. I think this is due to the lack of character development and the fact that most characters in the story with more than a couple of lines are male. Women were useful mostly to pack their husband’s suitcases. Dialogues sounded forced, but again, I think this was more patent towards the end, probably to the change in events. There were also a couple of things defying the laws of physics like a transmission from a microphone placed on a person on another planet.
It was an interesting book, and it will definitely delight fans of old sci-fi novels.
The fact that the story grabbed me from the start was a key point for me to stick with the audiobook, as I found several issues with the narration and audio production. The first chapter, especially, has a disturbing beeping noise. I am not sure about the source but it sounded like interferences in the sound equipment. The quality of the recording is not great, but it felt worse at times. There is also a bit more reverberation than what we usually hear in general in audiobooks. The narration was okay, but it was a bit on the monotone side, and although the character’s interpretations were good, they often sounded quite similar, so it was difficult to follow some dialogues. I found the overall narration distracting from the story, but as the premises were interesting, I was able to stick with it.
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Interesting premises, felt a bit old fashioned
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Sci-Fi Thriller
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Okay, good premise for a dystopian novel, right? Well, that's about as good as the book gets. After that premise gets laid down you get thrown into a mash up of various different stories following various different people. My finger hurts from having to rewind so many times to try to understand what was happening. Okay, so someone's child is set to be euthanized and there's a time traveler, also a robot and a female protagonist in there too. All in all, the whole book is based around trying to save a child and figuring out a way to hack some of these barriers and stop a plot to destroy a huge chunk of earth's population, but then there's a twist and it just gets even more convoluted and disorienting.
So the story is a little confusing and maybe someone smarter than me will easily be able to put all the characters into a cohesive timeline, right? The narration can't be too awful then, right? Something's gotta give with this. Nope! The narrator finishes sentences just like he starts them. It's absolutely distracting and his narration just isn't good. He's a rather new narrator and while I didn't expect R.C. Bray level narration, this narrator actually gave me anxiety. The book just doesn't feel right being read by him and maybe it would have been a better experience all around if a different narrator was chosen.
Overall, this isn't the worst book I've listened to, but the story and narration just isn't good enough to warrant continuing onto the next book in the series.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
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