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Junkyard Cats

Shining Smith, Book 1

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Junkyard Cats

By: Faith Hunter
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
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From the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems.

After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets that she has guarded for years.

This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.

With dread, Shining realizes: Someone knows who she is. Someone knows what she is guarding. Will she be able to protect the scrapyard? Will she even survive? Or will Shining have to destroy everything she loves to keep her secrets out of the wrong hands?

©2020 Faith Hunter (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Funny Scary Feel-Good Witty Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Military Fiction

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Junkyard Cats
"I was swarmed and survived and had the scars to prove it"
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"I protected my own."
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"Or rather, he didn’t sound happy about our visitor."
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  • "I was swarmed and survived and had the scars to prove it"
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  • "I protected my own."
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  • "Or rather, he didn’t sound happy about our visitor."

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Junkyard Cats
"I was swarmed and survived and had the scars to prove it"
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Junkyard Cats
"I protected my own."
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Junkyard Cats
"Or rather, he didn’t sound happy about our visitor."
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  • Junkyard Cats
  • "I was swarmed and survived and had the scars to prove it"
  • Junkyard Cats
  • "I protected my own."
  • Junkyard Cats
  • "Or rather, he didn’t sound happy about our visitor."

About the Creator

Faith Hunter is the award-winning New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of three series: the Jane Yellowrock series, the Soulwood series, and the Rogue Mage series (all available on Audible). In addition, she has edited two anthologies set in the RM world and coauthored the Rogue Mage RPG. She is the coauthor and author of 16 thrillers under pen names Gary Hunter and Gwen Hunter. She sold her first book in 1989 and hasn’t stopped writing since. Altogether she has 40+ books and dozens of short stories in print and is always juggling multiple projects. Faith collects orchids and animal skulls, loves thunder storms, and writes. She likes to cook soup, bake bread, garden, and kayak Class III whitewater rivers. She makes jewelry and drinks a lot of tea. Some days she’s a lady. Some days she ain't.

About the Performer

Khristine Hvam is an award-winning audiobook narrator, producer, and director. Some of her works include TV/radio commercials, video games, animated series, and most notably, more than 300 audiobook titles. Hvam has been honored with four Audio Publishers Association Audie Awards. AudioFile Magazine has awarded her seven of its Earphones Awards, as well as Best Voices of the Year 2015 and 2017. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

Innovative Concept • Strong Female Protagonist • Excellent Character Voices • Engaging Action Sequences • Perfect Pacing
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I really enjoyed this book! That is saying a lot for the monthly offerings in “audible originals”, they’re usually pretty bad. Please, stick with it as the first can be a little dry and narration “nasally”. It gets much better! There is a lot of action,dialog(great dif voices), some nice humor and the cats are STARS. Not a huge sci-fi fan but when I find really good books in the genre I do enjoy. The tech stuff is pretty interesting. I liked all the characters, the writing was well done. Am def going to look into her other books, hoping this will be a serial. Again, give this a chance,you shouldn’t be disappointed, especially with those Junkyard Cats!

A treat

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I have never heard of this author or narrator..but it was free this month and the blurb caught my attention...so I figured "why not". I couldn't stop listening...and it was over way to fast!

Engaging, clever...and a little disturbing. I'm really hoping this is the start of a new series...I'll be looking for it!

wow...

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Khristine Hvam is a narrator I'll listen to anytime, and I'm a fan of many of Faith Hunter's books. This one is mostly action and warfare, BUT, it has sentient cats, and AI systems becoming sentient, and a very interesting theory of nano infection thru modified creature vectors. I'm thinking there will be more in this series.

All action all the time

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Took this as a 12/19 selection. Enjoyed the story and narration. Will listen to again!

Excellent Short Sci Fi Original

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I am a Jane yellowrock fan, so that all i heard when the narrator spoke. with all characters i kept hearing another character. i think i needed,another narrator for faith hunter books. she has a great imagination.

not my cup of tea

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i am very intrigued to see where thus will go or better yet how this team of "misfits" will evovle with all of these unknown people and circumstances. And I love the cats. Just as demanding as ever lol. One things for sure though, you won't be bored... even through the scientific explanations for the reader.

its a pretty good book.

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Great read, the plot is compact and full of action; yet left plenty of room for the next story arc.

Great read can't wait for more...

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Just so you know where I'm coming from: I love fantasy, zombie, and monster stories; my taste runs more toward aggressive monsters v. gun toting bad-asses (Monster Hunters International, Hell Divers, and the Arisen series).

I am not a fan of urban fantasy, The snarky, tough-girl-besting-vampires formula of urban fantasy is played out imo. And that's mostly what this author writes, so I was reticent to choose it as a freebie. But this is something very different.

You still get a tough girl, but the author's not hitting you over the head with it - she's just a character who happens to be female. And the characters are very well-developed. The set & setting is pretty original. One reviewer mentioned needless jargon, but I liked that aspect of it - of course a very different world from ours with different tech would have different jargon. And I LOVED that the author didn't over-explain stuff. She explained everything enough to move the story along, but not all at once in some clunky 'once upon a time' data drop. You can tell that this is the work of an author with a lot of experience under her belt.

So, yeah. I highly recommend this one.

PLEASE make more

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Never really took off. Most of the story was just thoughts the main character was having

Story was a little flat

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I really enjoyed this read. It’s very creative and engaging. And best of all in a futuristic sci fi. It makes sense.

Great story and reader

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