Dark New World, Book 1

An EMP Survival Story

By: J.J. Holden, Henry Gene Foster

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

Society crumbles after an EMP attack, and the terrifying nightmare has only just begun....

Three people from different walks of life each experience the end of America. Cassy is a 33-year-old prepper and single mother, away on business. Ethan is a hacker and conspiracy nut living underground. Frank is a family man out camping with friends and family. When a devastating EMP attack in the middle of the night destroys America's infrastructure, they are propelled on an unforgettable journey across an ocean of chaos to reach safety...Safety from an unknown invader and from once-fellow Americans now hungry and desperate. Dark New World is a prepper story of survival and the fight to retain humanity in the face of an apocalyptic event.

©2016 JJ Holden & Henry Gene Foster (P)2016 JJ Holden & Henry Gene Foster

Loved it!

As always, Kevin Pierce is an excellent narrator! I always enjoy his work! He's an excellent story teller and does a great job with character voices! I love a good post apocalyptic or post disaster story. Looking forward to book 2!

After an EMP, it really is a Dark New World

An EMP has gone off and now power is out everywhere around them. Follow numerous people as they try to survive in this ever changing dark new world.

The narration was done by Kevin Pierce. This is the second prepper series that I’ve listened to that Pierce has narrated and I will reiterate that he has the perfect “prepper” type voice. Granted one of the main characters in Dark New World is a female, his voice still captures the prepper mentality really well and adds a lot to this novel.

There were definitely some scenes in this story that were incredibly realistic, I just feel that the timelines were a little shorter than one would expect. But, I’m an optimist. In Dark New World, things seem to fall apart much faster than I would expect. (Things started to go south within a day, I would probably expect 2-3 days before the “real” humanity would come out to play).

Not much is said about the enemy that these people are running away from and being engaged by, and I think that it’s left that way so that the reader can imagine any number of enemies that they want to. The EMP attack that starts this book off was really well explained and I think that some of the peoples reactions to it were also really spot on.

Part prepper and past post-apocalyptic (they kind of go hand-in-hand), Dark New World was an interesting read full of strong characters and what would happen to good and trusting people once society beings breaking down.

I was given a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Best story about survival.

I literally never put this audio book down. It was an amazing. survivalist book. Loved it. On to Book 2.

Outstanding!!!

Great story! Lots of action and definitely kept us awake on road trip. Highly recommend.

Entertaining

If you could sum up Dark New World, Book 1 in three words, what would they be?

"Great little book" I would expect book 2 to be equally good

What does Kevin Pierce bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Kevin Pierce does a fantastic job making the story come to life

Any additional comments?

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Good book overall but too short for the money

I enjoyed the book very much. But way too short for the money they should combine and sell at a reasonable cost.

Good overall. But lacks in narration.

overall it was a good book. but the narrator was a bit in monotone for my taste and had a lot to desire in panicked reading situations which made the story seemed a bit dull. the story itself was well put together and very enjoyable to listen to however it seemed like they jump the gun a little with one of the factions. we'll see how the next goes.

Fast Paced Post Apocalyptic Story

Would you listen to Dark New World, Book 1 again? Why?

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Have you listened to any of Kevin Pierce’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This is standard Kevin Pierce. He makes most of the PA genre books enjoyable.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

You bet. Once the action starts you want to get to the end

Any additional comments?

Good Story....Little to much profanity for my taste but fast paced and well written

Great!... except I wish it were longer

You know a book is good when you wish it was longer. This book starts out presenting a few very different main characters, which makes for a very interesting book. And best of all, no zombies. Instead, the story is realistic in what might happen when an EMP hits. I look forward to the rest of this series.

Kevin Pierce is a favorite narrator of mine. You can't go wrong listening to him.

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This Is Fantastic!!!!

I love Kevin Pierce key is the best audiobook narrator in the history of narrating audiobooks in my opinion there is no better narrator than Kevin Pierce God bless you for all the wonderful books that you have read for us to enjoy. as you entertained us with almost every type of voice for each character I've ever heard.