Waking Spero
The Spero Trilogy, Vol 1
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IQ Malcolm
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Crashed without a clue. Stranded on a strange world. Caught in the fight of their lives.
Aspiring teenaged artist Unai thought he was free from facing struggle like his father. But he’d rather be back in his family butcher shop when he wakes in a downed escape pod with a feral girl and cute-looking kid cadet on a faraway planet. And with carnage on the horizon and a gap in his memories, he’ll need more than his artistic instincts to stay alive.
2045 is the last year that Space Force Academy recruit Clover can remember. And though she’s desperate to honor her father’s military legacy by surviving the massive impact, she fears her two charges are casualties waiting to happen. So she goes with the only viable option: Take the lead to guarantee all three make it through the alien jungle’s deadly night...
Battling conflicting personalities and dodging close encounters with native creatures, Unai struggles to keep it together in the hostile environment. And Clover finds herself stretched to the limit keeping everybody alive when their search for answers unleashes an avalanche of peril.
Can they survive the savage lands before the extraterrestrial wildlife tears them apart?
Waking Spero is the engrossing first book in the Spero Trilogy YA science fiction series. If you like thrilling surprises, friendships forged under pressure, and otherworldly quests, then you’ll love IQ Malcolm’s fast-paced adventure.
Buy Waking Spero to explore the extraordinary today!
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Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her final day, the remote-research station she's been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives...only to realize that in a place this remote, there's nowhere left to run. Isolated with no power, no way to contact the outside world, and a madman on their heels, Angel and Ford must fight to survive in the most inhospitable - and beautiful - place on earth.
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- By hoppy1 on 02-14-20
By: Adriana Anders
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Zero Repeat Forever
- The Nahx Invasions, Book 1
- By: G. S. Prendergast
- Narrated by: Siiri Scott, James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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He has no voice or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn't know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. Until a human kills her...
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What did I want more? Forgiveness or death?
- By Amazon Customer on 11-29-17
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The Wastes of Keldora
- Factory of the Gods, Book 1
- By: Alex Raizman
- Narrated by: Christopher James Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Summoned to another world where gods and monsters roam, Julian continues his streak of bad luck. Rather than touching the Godcore directly, he let his smartphone absorb it. Now, he's got to figure out how to make the Godcore and his phone work together to help the people who summoned him survive their upcoming annihilation by the mad God of Chains.
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New beginnings. Same people.
- By GrimReaperD13 on 08-14-21
By: Alex Raizman
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Blood Mage
- By: Logan Jacobs
- Narrated by: Rebecca Woods, Daniel Wisniewski
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Milton was your average delivery driver until he had a run in with a dying fairy who imbued him with all his magical power. Now Milton can literally tear the blood out of his enemies with a gesture of his hand, every women he meets is attracted to his magical charm, and the powerful Fae Guild wants to pay him a bunch of money to fight evil.
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Are you computer literate? be prepared for cringe!
- By David on 01-27-20
By: Logan Jacobs
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The Paths Between Worlds
- By: Paul Antony Jones
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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For Meredith Gale, ending her life seems like her only choice, and that choice is the reason she’s dangling by her fingertips from a bridge high above the freezing water of the San Francisco Bay. But someone or some thing has other plans for Meredith, and as her fingers slip from the cold steel of the bridge, a disembodied voice asks her a simple question: “Candidate 13: Do you wish to be saved?” Realizing her mistake too late, Meredith screams “Yes!” and instantly finds herself transported to a mysterious island, alongside hundreds of other Candidates like her.
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A whole lot of fun!
- By Jane on 04-16-19
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The Testing
- The Testing, Book 1
- By: Joelle Charbonneau
- Narrated by: Casey Holloway
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about—hope for—is whether she’ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization.
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It was good but….
- By GAmom on 07-09-23
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Inception
- A Near Future Thriller
- By: Jonathan Yanez
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 49 mins
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My history is unknown. My present is violent. My future may be more dangerous still. I use my unique skillset in one of the Moon’s many watering holes. Here, miners can spend their hard-earned money to forget that they’re not among the wealthy elite in the paradise colony on Mars. When a known crime boss walks in, events will begin to unfold hinting at a dark past and an even murkier future.
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Hunh?
- By Linda Luella on 11-08-19
By: Jonathan Yanez
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InterWorld
- By: Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces: armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.
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A good listen
- By Gurmukh on 10-31-07
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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The Event
- By: Nathan Hystad
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
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Did not inspire me to get the next book.
- By MD on 12-13-18
By: Nathan Hystad
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Nightchaser
- By: Amanda Bouchet
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Captain Tess Bailey is in deep trouble. She and her crew are on the run, pursued by a tyrant who'll take them dead or alive. Tess's best hope is a tall, dark, and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan, who says he can help her. But his motivations are far from clear. With the dreaded Dark Watch closing in, what Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed, unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other before it's too late.
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Mixed review
- By Connie on 01-03-19
By: Amanda Bouchet
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Survival
- Species Imperative, Book 1
- By: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrated by: Angele Masters
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Herself a biologist, Julie E. Czerneda has earned a reputation in science fiction circles for her ability to create beautifully crafted, imaginative, yet believably realized alien races. In Survival, the first novel in her new series, Species Imperative, she draws upon this talent to build races, characters, and a universe which will draw listeners into a magnificent tale of interstellar intrigue, as an Earth scientist is caught up in a terrifying interspecies conflict.
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I study salmon!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-05-20
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Forever Young
- Forever Young, Book 1
- By: Daniel Pierce
- Narrated by: Leo Barnabas
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Jason Richards is in his 40s, recently divorced, and hates his job, but all of that changes when he's attacked by a redheaded vampire and left for dead in a truckstop bathroom. He soon wakes up in a mansion, surrounded by beautiful women and told he can never go home again. More importantly, he finds that his bones no longer ache, he feels amazing, and he looks like a 20-year-old kid again. That's because he's a Ferin, a Forever Young, gifted with immortality and special abilities unlike anything he ever thought possible.
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Cheesy vampire sex stories
- By Lance on 03-24-21
By: Daniel Pierce
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Lost Pirates
- By: Jamie Hawke
- Narrated by: Brandon Utah
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Frank was never the save-the-world type. He joined his college's Jedi dueling club to impress a chick he was into, and only stayed because he was too embarrassed to quit. He’s the type to have a crush, but the closest he’s gotten to action lately is when he stumbles upon his roommate having a hot threesome. Damn, he'd love to feel what it's like to be that guy. Be careful what you wish for…Life takes an unexpected turn when Frank discovers his grandpa's secret and travels back in time.
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I wanted to like it, but...
- By Spencer on 02-10-19
By: Jamie Hawke
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- Shawna
- 11-21-20
Great sci fi!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review
This book has a little bit of everything: thriller, romance, drama, action and so much more! I loved the whole thing.
The characters were good but this was geared to a younger audience so they were not as deep as they could have been. The dialogue was geared towards said younger audience as well. Overall it was an easy read. The narrator was not bad but could have added a bit more "oomph" to the book to really get it going.
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- Shanna Tidwell
- 03-21-21
Wonderful
Unai & Clover..... way smarter than your average teenagers. Can’t wait to see where they go from here. Stranded on a planet they don’t know anything about. Destined to move forward and learn all they can. I keep imagining everything described and wishing I could be an explorer too.... except when there are giant spiders and bog worms!
Narration by Savannah Adkins was incredible. Loved loved loved this book!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Jennifer L Brown
- 09-29-20
Action-packed YA sci-fi
*I was gifted a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.*
The good:
The author plunges into the action; he’s not afraid you’ll get lost without pages of backstory. I like an author who trusts his reader to keep up and doesn’t unnecessarily explain things. This stayed true throughout. He doesn’t explain jokes or asides: if you don’t get it you don’t get it. I think all the pop culture references will be a hit with younger readers. There is enough of a conclusion to feel like the time spent with these characters wasn't wasted, but enough of a question mark at the end of the book to draw you into keeping up with the series.
The not so good:
The audiobook narrator reads this more like a newscaster than a fiction reader, and it’s a bit distracting (also - just my pet peeve - there’s no “x” in “especially”).
Some of the dialogue here is a bit cringey, but I think the characters will resonate more with younger readers than middle-aged (me), and that is the intention after all. I just wasn’t able to suspend my disbelief enough to find any of the conversations believable in the circumstances the characters find themselves.
However, I give the book 4/5 stars because I feel like this is a fast-paced, easy, exciting read that young readers would really be drawn to. I have nephews in the 11-14 age range and I think they'd really enjoy this.
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- Jas P
- 11-21-20
Pretty Good Overall
This is a rather interesting story, following three teenage kids, Unai, Clover and Elana, who were in a starship in cryo-pods travelling through space, when their ship has some sort of catastrophic accident, and they crash on a planet. They are ejected in a crash pod, there were ten in the ejection pod, but seven were killed on impact.
The three that survive, are a Unai, young guy who was training to be a butcher with his Father, but really had his heart set on being an artist. The next is a strong willed, military cadet, whose Father has a Military Legacy, and Clover is determined to honour it by making sure the other two in the escape pod survive.
The third is a fascinating character, and leads to one of the stories plot lines, in that Elana, a young woman, cannot speak. The ship has been in hyperspace for over 2 million years, and during that time, whilst in cryo-sleep, the passengers have started to de-evolve, in that they have started to lose brain function, the cryo-chambers have started to breakdown the neural pathways, and we are reverting to a lesser state of intelligence as such. As a result, Elana wakes up almost feral like, like a scared animal, and acting on animal instincts, fight or flight mode, as her higher thinking centres are gone, and that includes her language ability.
The three of them find themselves on an alien planet, with very limited supplies (I don’t want to give too much away), and with the goal of trying to get rescued, Clover takes lead given her background and training.
This is definitely a young adult story, the way it is written, the dialogue between the main characters, and the way it reads, but it is interesting enough that anyone can read it and enjoy it. It has a mix of survival, thriller, action, a bit of romance, and a fair bit of humour. With 2 teenagers and an Author who thinks that all teenagers do is snipe at each other constantly with sarcastic comments, (which, let’s face it, are they wrong?), there is a lot of humourous moments.
The world building is exceptional, and is probably one of the most outstanding parts of this book. The Author has put a lot of time and effort and thought into this alien world, the plants, animals, alien structures, even the insects. It is a very well crafted and creative back drop to the story, and because so much effort has gone into it, it adds a lot of depth to the story, and allows the Author to use it in the story as well. There are some striking similarities to ‘Pandora’ from Avatar, in that the descriptions of the night-time ecosphere of the planet was very reminiscent of the bio-luminescent plants that were on Pandora. But the Author has done a remarkable job of describing this, and it is obviously different, and who says that planets wouldn’t have a similar plant life?
Given the limited range of Characters to work with, the Author had to make a real effort with those that they had, how they used them. Each Chapter alternates between Unai and Clover’s point of view, which makes for a really interesting perspective of the story, there is some overlap in a few places, but for the most part, it is one continuous story just told from one or other of the two main characters. As they go along, because they to have had some memory loss, and do not have full recall of who they are, they are constantly discussing their histories, trying to remember things, and in this way, we get to learn about the characters. It is a very clever way of introducing the characters. Of course, this leaves out Elana, but as the story goes along, we get to hear what each of the two think about her, and her background as well, and we at least learn some things about her.
I am not going to go into too much detail about what happens, as I don’t want to give anything away. I will say, that there are a lot of different things that happen to the 3 young adventurers, and it makes for a really interesting read as they try and battle for survival on this alien world, and work their way towards what they think is the wreckage of a crashed ship, in hopes of getting rescued.
The Author has thought a lot about the interactions between the characters, at the intellectual level and the physical level. Whilst to a large degree this book is entertaining, I did find that some of the dialogue was a bit grating at times. Unai has this habit of constantly saying sarcastic, or what he thinks are ‘Funny’ comments, but what are really annoying comments, and after about 15mins of being there, most people would have yelled at him to shut up, or duct-taped his mouth closed. On the other side, Clover is a bossy, conceited know-it-all, who just issues orders and expects them to be followed like a drill sergeant, and yet she has absolutely no authority, there wasn’t even a discussion about it.
I just found the dialogue to be somewhat unrealistic, and very over the top, both characters were like the worst case scenarios of their stereotype. I felt really sorry for poor Elana, who had to listen to all of it, and couldn’t actually respond. Hopefully she couldn’t understand most of it!!
But this is my only real complaint about the book, other than that, it is a really fun read, with a lot of interesting stuff. Hopefully, the Author tones the dialogue down a bit in the second book, as this will make a really interesting and fascinating series, to see how it plays out. It actually had a really good ending, and I am interested to see what happens in book 2.
Savannah Adkins does a good job with this book, she has a clear and concise voice that is easy to understand, and she has a nice voice that is very pleasant to listen to. She does good character voices, male and female (although we did only have a limited selection), but she conveyed the emotions of her characters as well, so we really understood how they felt as she told their story. Overall, the Narrator did a great job!!
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- Hamza Muhammad
- 10-03-20
Excellent Book and Narration!
What a book! Immaculate story and even better narration! The author did a phenomenal job in both orchestrating the book as well as choosing the appropriate narrator! I wish I could give it 10 stars!!! Definitely recommending it to my peers!
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- LOKI
- 05-17-21
Stranded on a strange world without a clue.
This is a rather interesting story, following three teenage kids, Unai, Clover and Elana, who were in a starship in cryo-pods travelling through space, when their ship has some sort of catastrophic accident, and they crash on a planet. They are ejected in a crash pod, there were ten in the ejection pod, but seven were killed on impact. It stars off al little slow and was hard for me to get into it but as it went on I found my self wanted to know more and where the story would lead, and looking forward to more books!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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