
Brother Bones
City of Lost Souls
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Narrated by:
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J. Scott Bennett
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By:
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Ron Fortier
A City of Lost Souls
For decades, Cape Noire had existed on the Northwest coast, a bustling metropolis of international commerce. Over time, it became a nexus for all manner of evil and corruption, fed by a dark, insidious spirit of darkness that seemed to infuse itself into the city’s very foundations. Then one night, the strangest creature of them all was born in the midst of thunder, lighting, and murder. He wears a torn black trench-coat, wide-brim fedora, and a bone-white skull mask while wielding twin silver-plated automatics. He is Cape Noire’s supernatural protector: Brother Bones, the undead avenger.
At his hands, none find mercy, only cold unforgiving justice. He now returns in five macabre, horror-filled adventures pitting him against both real and imaginary monsters. Among these, a notorious fiend garbed in blood red and known as Doctor Satan, Master of the Occult Arts.
Once again, award-winning pulp scribe Ron Fortier offers up a collection of new Brother Bones exploits from his feverish imagination. In Cape Noire, the fun is only getting started.
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Very interesting strange tale!
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As always the narrator can go from kick butt hero to whiny victim, grow for outraged villain to thankful damsel. His vocal cast is quite extensive and very distinct, and is therefore easy for audiences to pick out the different characters even during action scenes or rapid or multi person conversations. Furthermore, the narrator's own accent can easily switch from narrating noir to explaining tragedy to explaining the punchline of a character's joke very rapidly.
Given the past life of the "undead avenger" as well as his current actions and style, it is difficult to classify him as either heroic or anti-heroic but better to view him as a man paying penance with the skills that he already had in life, simply continuing to do what he did best. The book itself makes me hungry for more of the stories about him and the supporting cast as they to are thoroughly explained in the stories within the collected shorts.
Undeath, Noir, and Super Science
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This was my first book of Brother Bones and my first book by Ron Fortier. Have to say I really enjoyed both his writing and storytelling. Cape Noir has a dark gritty feel to it that is the perfect setting for all the different characters. The noir feel this book has mixed with supernatural elements was done quite well. These stories have a little bit of many different genres of supernatural and again I would really like to see them expanded upon. I’ll definitely have to go back to the previous three and see if there is more about some of the characters I enjoyed.
J. Scott Bennett’s voice is great for stories like these and I don’t feel this would have come across as well without him. His character voices are phenomenal and really adds to the comic book feel this has. I usually exclusively listen to horror stories, but the more I listen to Bennett, the more I want to expand my listening repertoire.
I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.
Pulp Noir With Supernatural Villains and Heroes
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Anyway, overall, I enjoyed this audiobook. While I struggled to 'get into' the first third, the rest of the story made up for it. I'm not sure what the problem was. Maybe it was how the side stories connected with each other and, to me, there was too much going on? Who knows?! All I know is I had a hard time following along with the characters and staying focused.
The idea/character of Brother Bones was interesting. Did the author write a book or other short stories involving him? The guy stuck in the gorilla body...yeah, I wasn't so sure about him. IDK. It's like his character didn't really fit in all that well with the other ones. Could have just been me though. I loved the synthetic man side story. That poor guy wasn't having much luck at all. One area that stood out to me was when the scientist and Dr. Satan transferred his brain into the synthetic body. The author wrote it as though it was totally easy to do--transfer a brain into a new body and get everything hooked up. Yes, I know this isn't a science fiction book or medical text, but still.
Perhaps I missed the part of how the one lady became a vampire, but I felt like there wasn't much of her in these stories even though she was also an interesting one. Either way, I could see her written into further stories.
In the end, this was a different kind of listen for me.
This was a different cup of tea.
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With that said, I'm digging Bones. This is my first, and now I have to have em all, of course! One of my favorite narrators, J. Scott Bennett, is telling this one, and I have only praise for him - as usual, job well done. First heard him with Black Box Inc
by Jake Bible, and he's kept me smiling ever since!
This is a cool story. I loved it. And now I need more. You created it, now you deal with it :)
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
WOW, AWESOME!
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Old school radio show style stories
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One thing that does bother me is the decision to make this a collection of mostly short stories, one is kind of lengthy. I get that he has some stories to tell, but I really prefer full length books over a collection of shorts, unless that collection is an Anthology with different writers giving their take on the character. I will say that we do get to see some awesome older villains, and some old pals, one of whom comes back with more bite than you might expect. Each story is top notch, I found no meh or mediocre tales herein, and all them carry an electric charge for a real pulp fan.
Bennett is absolutely one of my favorite narrators. The man elevates a story when he gets hold of it. I recently listened to a book he did for a LITRPG writer. I enjoyed it, and so got a few other books by the same author in that genre. There was no comparison. One book was so awful I couldn't bear to listen to it, and the other so bland I had to pour salt in my ears just to get some life in sthe story. Bennett took that tale and made it interesting. Here, he is already working with awesome material, and so this thing balloons into one amazing tale after another. I really appreciate his skill and vocal talents. You will too.
So, if revenge from beyond the grave is up your alley, and you like amazing writing and unbelievable narration I can't see why you would even consider passing this book up. I could go into details about the stories, but why? You want to listen to them yourself, and not get a rundown of what happens. Find out for yourself how great a series this is, you can start here and work your way back if you like! Don't miss out. Even though I did receive a promo code for this review it in no way influenced my considerations of the material, and in fact, inspired me to be more honest. Getting a code generally makes me harsher as a reviewer as I am more often concerned what someone like Me will decide based on my review.
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Bones returns for more carnage and Mayhem
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A fantastic series with excellent narration I think this would appeal to a large audience
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Highly recommended
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Pulp fiction at its best
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Creepy Pulp Avenger
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