Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Afloat

Author: Erin Healy

Narrator: Nan Gurley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-13

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dark waters are rising. Who will stay afloat? Architect Vance Nolan has crafted a marvel - shining apartments floating in the peaceful cove of a winding river. The project is partially occupied and about to make investors rich when a sinkhole gives way. Torrential rains quickly flood the cove, leaving a handful of builders, investors, and residents cut off from the rest of the world. The motley group is bitterly divided over how to survive. Vance insists they wait for rescue. Developer Tony Dean wants to strike out into the darkness. And single-mom Danielle Clement, obligated to each man and desperate to protect her young son, Simeon, isnt sure which one is wiser.

Power failure, an unnatural daytime darkness, explosions, and a murder expose hidden intentions and dark histories. Then Simeon spots something strange underwater - beautiful, shifting lights in the dark depths. In this watery world, everyones secrets will eventually come to light. And deliverance may mean more than just getting out alive. Another stunning exploration of the human spirit and supernatural possibilities from best-selling author Erin Healy.

Critic Reviews:

Heart-pounding suspense and unrelenting hope that will steal your breath. (Ted Dekker, New York Times best-selling author)

Members Reviews:

A Disaster Novel...But NOT like you'd think.

SPOILER ALERT BELOW!

First off, if you are thinking of reading this book because you are a fan of the disaster/survival genre, here's a little advice: DON'T!

Although marketed as a sort of disaster novel, the concept never gels. Disasters Are "represented" ... sinkholes, corporate greed, flood, rainstorms, possible volcanoes and maybe the rapture... but none are given any real time. This is a Christian Novel that uses a skeleton of a bare bones "plot" to push its message down your throat in big heaping double handfuls. Nothing Wrong with Christian Novels, but don't bait and switch me.

The plot (if you call it that) is all over the place and has no real form. The Characters... I won't say they are cardboard because that would be giving to much credit. They are arch-types, at best. The good guy hero with a pure heart and a deep dark past, the executive who is so slimy you are praying for his death two pages after meeting him, the sexy woman who's a plaything of our bad guy and her insipid young son who is just so cute you want to hold his head underwater for a few chapters. That pretty much covers it except for a handful of paper cutouts who are introduced to be bumped off, add nausea.

If you want book that will give you maybe a spiritual uplift, this might do...though that end of things is as grey scale as the rest... otherwise, pass.

If you enjoyed the Supernatural Christian Suspense in Afloat

There is a complex of unique floating apartments in a cove that provides housing for a group of residents that include single mom Danielle Clement and her son Simeon. The project is partially complete of architect Vance Nolan, who seeks to move beyond his past tragedies by bringing to life a vision of people living on the water. Then, a sinkhole gives way. Death and destruction follow as rains flood the cove, an unnatural darkness comes, and a man is murdered. No one knows what is real or who can be trusted.

This has a lot of suspense and supernatural wonder. Vance is a person of light and tries to overcome his past to follow God.