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  • Old Man's War

  • Old Man's Apocalypse, Book 1
  • By: A.J. Newman
  • Narrated by: B.C. Archer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (57 ratings)

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Old Man's War

By: A.J. Newman
Narrated by: B.C. Archer
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The apocalypse slowly rolled across the world without much notice, except for the riots and looting. There weren't any bombs, EMP blasts, grid failure, or natural disasters to blame, as you always find in those post-apocalyptic novels.

At 58 years old, Jeff Mann had read dozens of those apocalyptic sci-fi novels, and all were wrong. The cause was the incompetence of the world's governments and the failure of the many financial Ponzi schemes. First, the riots and looting came, and then starvation and depravity followed. The billionaires built safe compounds while everyone else died off or fought to survive the holocaust at the end of the modern world.

Jeff begins a crusade against human trafficking after saving two women from slavers. Can one man and two women make a difference in a world gone mad?

©2020, 2022 Anthony J. Newman (P)2022 Anthony J. Newman
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just okay

I liked the story well enough but the narration kind of felt over the top.

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Very Enjoyable Characters and Adventures

The characters, locations, ethics and moral sense in the story give a feeling that good people will always be around, even if your situation currently sucks. Hope, that's what to call it. The Narrator B.C Archer did a fine job and went above and beyond. I will enjoy re-listening to this in the years to come.

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An Entirely Different Take

B. C. Archer does a good job narrating this entirely different take on the Apocalyptic genre. There have always been references to human trafficking during the Apocalypse, but this book takes a clear and very deep look at this horrible sin against humanity. Jeff Mann is 58, living alone on Dolphins Island after the death of his wife Emma when the Apocalypse hits 2 years later. He rescues 2 sisters Ollie (Olivia) 34 and Maria is 20 something. Jeff teaches them both how to survive with the intent that they return to their family. Maria, being the spoiled baby of her family has some growing up to do. The villains and victims are both male and female, all races and ages. Don't want to give too much away. Let's just say I can't wait for the next one to come out😁

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one older man and four women against "the slavers"

great narration and well written but I think it was aimed at an older man to fantasize about the positive side of the end of society with all women fighting over him and him having to turn them away. Not that realistic but enjoyable if you're into that type of thing. Not my preferred post-apocalypse genre though.

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Good Book, Good Narrator, and MAJOR flaw

I like this story. The writing isn't perfect (many consecutive sentences ending with the same word), but it is fun and mostly believable. I particularly like that the premise is not the common EMP/Virus variety -- that was very creative.

My main beef with this book is not with volume 1, but with volume 2. They switched narrators! What.a rookie move -- NEVER switch narrators. If I had paid attention, I would not have bought volume 1 solely because of the narrator switch in vol 2, and I returned volume 2 after about a ten second listen. New narrator, no deal.

Authors: it's actually a lot of work having to learn each character's voice as assigned by the narrator, and when the narrator changes, the characters themselves are wholly different. It's incredibly confusing -- like coming home and finding your spouse has been switched with a different person who looks different, acts different, and sounds different, but strangely, has all the memories of your original spouse. That might make a sci-fi story premise, but when you do this damage to your own series, you're just limiting your market. Honestly, unless the first narrator has literally died, there's no excuse to switch, and if he had died, you might as well just start over and have one new narrator redo the whole thing. Anyway, I won't be buying more of this series.

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Loved

I loved this book by A.J. Newman. I also loved these characters. I can’t wait for the next book in this series. I would recommend this book and all of this A.J.’s books. I listened to this book on audiobook.

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A great start to a new series!

A.J. Newman did another great job starting a new series. I absolutely enjoyed this story and look forward to the next in the series. Audio Version: B.C. Archer did a wonderful job narrating!

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Good story

Virtuous old (50?) guy saves sisters, then some of their family and his son from slavers in a world gone to hell.

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Meh

Believable, no. Quickly turned into white noise. Meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh. And Audible, enough with you’ directing’ a 15 word minimum to write a review.

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