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Title: A Sealed Fate

Author: Lisa Gordon

Narrator: Lisa Gordon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Lisa Gordon

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A chain of tragic deaths across Dubai spanning two decades. Only Valda knows they were not accidents, but murders. Her name is next on that list.

Spunky singer Valda ditches her old life in Cape Town for a new start in glittering Dubai. Armed with just her cigarettes and some attitude, she sets about reigniting her career and putting to bed the heartache over her former boyfriend Richard.

Valda does indeed find success, and to her astonishment, love, but all is threatened when she is introduced to a billionaire sheikh. Her clandestine liaison with the sheikh propels her into a murky web of deceit, and when newspaper clippings of seemingly accidental deaths across Dubai are posted anonymously to her, it is clear she is rushing headlong into the same fate. No one dares cross the sheikh and she can hardly hardly turn to the law, so with few options open she confides in Larissa. As an astrologer, Larissa predicts that Valda and the sheikh's destinies were sealed from the moment of their first meeting; however she keeps the dire fate that she reads in the charts a secret. Lara resolves to help Valda flee Dubai and the ever-tightening grip of the sheikh; but should Valda be putting all her faith in her new friend and guru of the grimoires?

Together, Valda and Larissa take a gamble in a game of cosmic Russian roulette where the stakes are their lives, and their adversary, Fate itself.

A thoroughly modern cocktail of intrigue, passion, and suspense set against the exotic locales of Cape Town and Dubai with an eclectic mix of characters, a perfect beverage if you like a tangy lemon peel in your drink as this one has a twist at the end too, but you'll have to listen to discover it.

Members Reviews:

Arabian Nights

If you could sum up A Sealed Fate in three words, what would they be?

Sultry, mysterious, hot

What other book might you compare A Sealed Fate to, and why?

The author has an independent cross-genre voice.

Have you listened to any of Lisa Gordons other performances? How does this one compare?

No, I am not aware of any other audio books by this writer and reader.

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

Yes but it is quite a long recording.

Any additional comments?

The author-reader has a distinctive if cultured South African accent which draws the listener into a story which is set in Dubai. The SA heroine Valda takes the role of Scheherazade and she is telling a story for her life. Sultry, sexy, as hot and mysterious as the desert. I don't want to give the plot away but maybe I would have gone for a different ending. But this is merely a preference and probably the result of coming to believe that the female characters were actually real and alive. So much so I wanted to meet them and find out if Valda has the same delightful voice as Lisa.

Stunning debut

Lisa Gordon reveals that as well as a creative and dramatic novelist, she has a great future as a narrator. Her South African accent makes a refreshing change from British or American English, and she manages characterisation of different protagonists exceedingly well.

The story is full of local colour and exotic locations and the cast of characters well drawn and believable.

If you close your incredulity at the almost Shakespearean bed trick or swapping of individuals, you won't be disappointed by the plot twists and shocking (and unexpected) dénouement.

A bravura first novel that justly won a crime writing award, Lisa Gordon is definitely a name to look out for.

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Title: The Mountain Story

Author: Lori Lansens

Narrator: Corey Brill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On the anniversary of the day his best friend, Byrd, had a tragic accident on the mountain that had been the boys' paradise and escape, Wolf Truly reaches for the summit again with the intention of not coming home. But Wolf meets three women in the cable car on the way up from Palm Springs and finds himself agreeing to help them get to a mountain lake.

As the weather suddenly deteriorates, the group is stranded on a lethal ridge, and the lights of the city twinkle below, so close and yet so terrifyingly far away. Those who will survive the ordeal will do so through a mixture of bravery, determination, and self-revelation.

Members Reviews:

Superb!

This is one of those books that stays with you long after you read it. Wolf Truly goes to the mountain on his eighteenth birthday intending to take his life. Instead he ends up in the company of three women, all of them becoming lost in the wilderness.

What follows is a gripping story of survival interlaced with glimpses of the lives of all four characters. Wolfâs personal story is told in sections that take us from his childhood to the ânowâ moments of the book, allowing us to understand what brought him to the mountain in a suicidal frame of mind. I enjoyed the way the author wove the two stories together, and was especially fond of Wolfâs close friendship with his friend Byrd.

These characters grow on you. At the beginning, there is no emotional connection to the women, (the book is told from Wolfâs point-of-view throughout), but by the end, I felt like I knew each of them personally. Like Wolf, I grew to understand them through their ordeal on the mountain, and became attached to each.

The ending was superb, and took me by surprise. Bravo to the author. I havenât read a five-star book in a while, but if I could give this one more than 5 stars I would. I highly recommend The Mountain Story for a riveting and engaging read.

Excellent story

I wasn't sure what to expect with this book and was happily surprised. In theory, it's a book about 4 people who survive 5 days on a mountain without food or shelter but it's really a story about much more.

Wolf, an 18 year boy who has spent his childhood with an erratic, undependable father, is feeling like he has lost everything he cares about when he meets 3 women by chance on the top of a mountain. They ask for directions and he tries to help them find their way to the secret lake. Multiple mishaps cause them to become lost, lose their food and spend a harrowing 5 days trying to make it out alive. In that time, each of the 4 reveal things to each other, show their best side and worst side, take care of each other and develop a deep lasting bond.

The story is written as a letter by Wolf to his son who was about to leave for college. Wolf's son has always wanted to hear the whole story about Wolf's time on the mountain but Wolf has never shared the details. In this letter, he explains everything and hopes that his son will be able to accept the truth. I do not want to say more and ruin the story, but I highly recommend really this book.

This story is one that will stay with me a long time.

Most of the elements of a very good story. Just a bit slow at points

Most of the elements of a very good story. Just a bit slow at points. This is essentially a story about fate vs happenstance.

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Title: Shameful!

Author: Donald G. Hunter

Narrator: Afton Laidy Zabala-Jordan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-16

Publisher: Donald g hunter

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A practical joke goes wrong and changes the lives of innocent people.

Members Reviews:

This was surprisingly good.

If you could sum up Shameful! in three words, what would they be?

I'd have to sum up this audio in these three words: Surprising! Scandalous! and Wow! This was a twisty story.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Shameful!?

When her dad beats the life out of her for the joke as the mom just allows it.

Which scene was your favorite?

I liked hearing the court processions.

If you could rename Shameful!, what would you call it?

Taking A Joke Too Far

Any additional comments?

This was surprisingly a great book. I really liked it. I know the narrator could only do as much as what the author wrote so that's okay. She did well and her voice was pleasant. I liked it.

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Title: The Road and Beyond: The Expanded Book-Club Edition of The Road to You

Author: Marilyn Brant

Narrator: Lisa Bunting

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Road and Beyond is the expanded book-club edition of The Road to You by New York Times & USA Today best-selling author Marilyn Brant. This novel contains not only the completed original story set in the late 1970s but also the brand-new present-day tale of Aurora, now a mature and married woman with two adult sons, who must confront her worst parental nightmare.

One Disappearance Had Been Enough to Last Her a Lifetime....

Aurora Gray is no stranger to tragedy. In the summer of 1976, when she was just 16, her world turned upside down when her big brother, Gideon, and his best friend, Jeremy, disappeared. For two years there was no word from either of them. No trace of their whereabouts. But then, shortly after her high school graduation, she unexpectedly finds her brother's journal and sees that it's been written in again. Recently. By him.

There are secret messages coded within the journal's pages, and Aurora, who is unusually perceptive and a natural puzzle solver, is determined to follow where they lead, no matter what the cost. She confides in the only person she feels might help her interpret the clues: Donovan McCafferty, Jeremy's older brother and a guy she's always been drawn to...even against her better judgment. The two of them set out on a road trip of discovery and danger, heading westward along America's historic Route 66 in search of their siblings and the answers to questions they haven't dared to ask aloud. The mystery they uncover will forever change the course of their lives....

But Now It Was Happening Again

Decades later, in the summer of 2014, 54-year-old Aurora receives a terrifying phone call - her adult son, Charlie is, missing, and this news inevitably brings the memories of her adolescent years rushing back. Haunting recollections she'd hoped to keep buried resurface. Are the choices she made in her youth responsible for her son's disappearance now? And how on earth can she find him?

Members Reviews:

I fell in love with this book

I fell in love with this book, the 1st book left me wanting more and this filled in some of those gaps for me. How they went on to build a beautiful life together and yet after all this time Aurora is still haunted by what happened to her brother Gideon in 1978. Marilyn, has a way of drawing you into her books, and making you enjoy the story and getting lost in them. I am hoping to see more from her

One person, two stories, thirty plus years apart. Fear and terror, mystery, and heartache for a woman. One story of love.

The Road and Beyond more than tells the original The Road to You from the point of view of looking back thirty plus years in the future, in reflection. A second story line is added in the current day setting that reverberates every bit as much with the angst, mystery, and fingernail biting as the original story. This time, though, instead of the reader just seeing the pain and despair of the sister as she once again relives the mystery of the wild summer thirty some odd years ago, she also rips the readerâs heart out with a motherâs added layer of grief and despair as she desperately tries to locate her missing son.

All the old feelings and memories of the protagonistâs youth came bubbling up like Old Faithfulâs Geyser.

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Title: I'mperfect Girl

Author: Elena Emma

Narrator: Nikki Schaeffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-16

Publisher: Elena Emma/Nikki Schaeffer

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

I'mperfect Girl is the story of Haven's hedonistic, emotional, and spiritual journey of self-discovery through the thorny mazes of the contemporary dating scene in search of her ultimate soul mate. It is the tale of Fifty Shades of Grey in the life of a real woman with kids, parents, social, and professional responsibilities, desires, and dreams. It is also a crafty depiction of what the world around a woman may look like when she embraces her imperfections in entirety, which keeps the listener aroused, sentimental, puzzled, and craving both sexual release and prayer.

Members Reviews:

The end is just the beginning...

I'mperfect Girl is a story of a strong and thus wonderfully vulnerable woman. Haven is young, free spirited, and wise; and she is embarking on an exciting journey of searching for her true self. She is open to new relationships, new experiences, new ideas. She prays, she loves, she ponders - and her thoughts are reflective of her generation, who's been so fast to live that when comes time to slow down - they feel lost. But who is real Haven? Where in reality is she going? Where will she land? Those are the questions that I've been trying to answer while immersed to the I'mperfect Girl's world. This world has Haven in focus, and other characters are blurred by her vision, which adds to the charm of the story.

There should be a disclaimer on the front page of this novel: don't start reading if you are not able to devote a full weekend to devouring the book, hence you won't have peace of mind until "The End". And still you will close the book with further great expectations - because it's just the beginning of and for Haven...

painful and liberating at the same time

The book explores the subject of female essence, the depth of her tenderness and whirlwind of her emotions within various types of relationships. Haven brings out all sides of a woman in her: mother, sister, friend, intellectual partner and passionate lover. While reading, I cried numerous times comparing the story to my own life. It felt engrossing, painful and liberating at the same time. Absolute must read for every woman!

Emotions and a fight within herself...emotional journey!

Reading this book was interesting and easy as a breeze. During reading i've experienced different emotions such as happiness and sadness. The book clearly reveals real life of the author, her emotions, feelings and a journey of finding her inner piece. Love and sex, emotions and a fight within herself - you will find it all in this emotional journey.

Enjoy a break from your own life!

Wanna get away? No, Southwest isnât going to be involved here. But you DO have a chance to escape your life for a few hours into the latest work of fiction from Elena Emma. The story of Haven starts with a detailed account of who she thinks she is and who she knows she is not. The foreword gives the reader the background on the main character and after a few pages, you really feel like you are starting to understand her life. The story is intertwined with rich details and descriptions that will transport you into whatever the moment our heroine finds herself in. The book is written in first-person voice, so there is a definite voyeuristic element to the experience of reading the book.

Haven is leading a busy life of a modern working woman, with the added complexity of going through an amicable but nonetheless life-changing divorce.

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Title: This Secret We're Keeping

Author: Rebecca Done

Narrator: Kristin Atherton, Oliver Chris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of This Secret We're Keeping by Rebecca Done, read by Kristin Atherton and Oliver Chris.

A pupil and a teacher. Is it ever right to break the rules?

Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was 15 years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal, with his arrest and imprisonment.

Now, 17 years later, Matthew returns to Norfolk, with a new identity and a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together. With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present?

From debut author Rebecca Done, This Secret We're Keeping is a powerful and provocative novel about the ties which can keep us together - or tear us apart.

Members Reviews:

Well...... a few small spoilers

I'm torn. It was a decent book. Well written, well narrated, interesting points of view, good characters. It had a lot of potential, it just wasn't at all what I was expecting when I started and for all the rave reviews I've read. It was, however, utterly heartbreaking. So so many things were just tragic. I think any book that includes a beloved pet dying, especially when so central to the story, should have a disclaimer so that I can be prepared for it. I've been blindsided by a few lately and it's not cool at all. I was already on the fence about the book and that ruined it further. So here's your warning if you feel the same.

But onto the more reasonable points I didn't like; it was way longer than necessary and some areas progressed so slowly I was actually bored. A good portion of the book seemed pretty pointless.

I tried, I really really tried to like Matthew/will. But, I just couldn't. He was just a weak, sad, immature character in my opinion. Like the mindless, stereotypical male who's life is completely run by the women and stronger personalities around him. He was to weak to escape the seductions of a 15 year old girl, his adult girlfriend runs the show and makes his decisions for him but he can't change that because he can't support himself and she'd take his child away. Ugh, I wanted to shake some sense into him. Quit making excuses and be an adult! They made ridiculously terrible decisions throughout the book, which for a 15 year old is understandable but for a 25 year old is just sad. It really hit me (small spoiler) when he was trying to convince her to ditch college to run away to Italy. He's just grooming her like an actual predator. He's so selfish. Maybe he loved her but he's still trying to change her life and her future to what he wants, not what's best for her. It says a few times how she's so young and impressionable but he uses it to his advantage every time. Even as adults he treats her like a child who will sit and wait with bated breath for his call or attention, and sadly she does just that. I just couldn't make myself like him and that made me question her sanity. I guess it made such an impact on a 15 year old girl she would still be attached, even if he is pathetic.

Every character besides the main two, was somehow evil and terrible to them.

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Title: Sweet Wattle Creek

Author: Kaye Dobbie

Narrator: Kate Hosking

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The chance discovery of an antique wedding dress weaves together the fascinating stories of three women from different eras: Sophie, in hiding from a troubled past; Belle, who must lose everything to learn what really matters; and Martha, forced to give up those she loves in order to avoid exposure.

It's 1931, and Belle Bartholomew has arrived in rural Sweet Wattle Creek to claim her inheritance - a run-down grand hotel formerly owned by Martha Ambrose. Determined to solve the mystery of her birth and the reason why she was bequeathed the hotel, Belle runs into difficulties with the townsfolk and their desire to keep their secrets safe.

Sixty years later Sophie Matheson is on a quest to find Belle and her family after discovering the wedding dress. The Sweet Wattle Creek centenary brings more challenges when her past catches up, and she must fight for all that matters to her. Who were Belle and Martha, and what links their lives together?

Members Reviews:

Best read in ages.

I adored reading Belle and Sophie's stories. Told in parallel timelines, I have to admit to being hooked very early on.

Ms Dobbie's writing is superb and held my attention for the entire book. I don't normally stay in bed on a Saturday morning but I had to finish the story before I could get on with my day. Being held captive between the pages of a book is the best excuse to lock out the real world and even though I looked forward to the end, when I reached it I was left wishing there was more. And not because I thought the author could do better or more but because I was so engrossed in their lives I didn't want to say goodbye.

I now have this author on my watch list!

What a find.

Three Stars

enjoyed

A Light & Gentle Read that Will Appeal to Your Imagination While It Touches Both Your Heart and Your Sentimental Mind

When an old wedding dress mistakenly lands on the steps of the newspaper where she works as a journalist, Sophie Matheson is intrigued by both the beauty of it as well as the two names written on the inside of the box. With the Centenary celebrations of Sweet Wattle Creek imminent, she determines that if she can figure out its provenance and the tale held within its lace, velvet and pearls, this could prove to be a worthy story to accompany the dress at its display.

Approaching Ian, the historian and co-ordinator of the event, together they begin to delve into the past to uncover the secrets that the dress keeps within its folds. But Sophie has her own secret, one which is fed to the reader piecemeal, heightening the mystery surrounding her presence in the small town. Being thrust into the limelight however, is one thing she never bargained on and, as a consequence, her carefully held secret is soon uncovered, bringing danger to the door that she has tried to keep shut so that her and her son remain safe.

In our historical timeline, we are introduced to Belle whose story is set during the Great Depression. A somewhat wealthy and sheltered young woman, she soon finds out that things may not be as they seem when her father suddenly dies and she is left to fit together the pieces of the puzzle around her heritage. Itâs a journey of self-discovery and one that will take her from her gentrified upbringing to the dusty streets of Sweet Wattle Creek and the property she has mysteriously inherited.

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Title: Little Is Left to Tell

Author: Steven Hendricks

Narrator: Christian Carvajal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-16

Publisher: Campanile Books

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Listeners enter a narrative rabbit hole through bedtime stories that Mr. Fin, a man with dementia, conjures for his long-lost son. Virginia the Wolf writes her last novel to lure her daughter home. A rabbit named Hart Crane must eat words to speak, while passing zeppelins drop bombs. Mr. Fin tries to read the past in marginalia and to rebuild his son from boat parts. The haunting fables in this lyrical first novel trace the fictions that make and unmake us.

Members Reviews:

Fantastical, thoughtful and highly pleasurable to read

Read this book when you hunger for wonder, or if ever your very adult world seems a bit too dark and practical to suspend belief.

This book tells us many stories. I fell hard for Fin, a retired professor battling the twin losses of both his once organized and brilliant mind as well as the loss of his beloved son David. To cope, Fin retreats into stories once told, or perhaps simply dreamed, of rabbits and bears and flying trees and zeppelins called elephants that grind up entire cities in their mechanical bowels.

My favorite parts of this book were those that described to me this other world of Fin and David's imagining. I haven't lived in such a richly imagined second world since reading Dianne Wynne Jones' "Howl's Moving Castle". This book well-suits thinking adults seeking a little fantastical reverie.

Challenging read

Steven Hendricks uses magical realism and the whimsical mood of fairy tales to his debut novel, LITTLE IS LEFT TO TELL (Starcherone). At the heart of the story is an old man named Mr Fin, who is suffering from dementia. I was immediately drawn into the narrative and I believe others will be too, since many of us have relatives who are suffering from either one or both of the horrific, incurable diseases of dementia and Alzheimerâs.

Fin daydreams in the park and putters around an old boat. His neighbor, Viv looks in on him, but mostly Fin is in his head. We the readers are introduced to a rich menagerie of characters and animals inside his mind, including Mrs Rabbit and her bunnies, the writer, Virginia the Wolf. âFinâs tales are randomly copied from the writings of Cervantes, Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, sometimes (admittedly) lifted freely its inspirations sans quotation or citation.â

Itâs twenty-years after wishing for his long-lost son, David, that Mr Fin is given a moment of lucidity and discovers David is dead. We readers assume he committed suicide.

LITTLE IS LEFT TO TELL is not an easy read. There were several times I was lost and had to go back and reread sections. I believe it would be helpful for any reader to have an expanded imagination and ability to follow non-sensible narratives.

This book will not appeal to everyone. That is a compliment.

I will be honest. This book will not appeal to everyone. That is a compliment.

I read an e-version but also enjoyed the audio sample and will listen to the whole book in the future. Do NOT listen while driving.

This is not a children's fantasy.

Beginning as lyrically peaceful as a Beatrix Potter fairytale, until the bombs drop. (on page two)

It is a story of grief on multiple levels. A mother rabbit's loss, a father's repeated losses, of his son and his memories. Told in alternating time periods and viewpoints, are any of them "real?"

At some points it may be a challenge to focus and identify the events and where they fit in time, or if they fit at all.

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Title: The Clouds Still Hang: The Book of Daniel, Book 1

Author: Patrick C. Notchtree

Narrator: Patrick C. Notchtree

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Patrick C Notchtree

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A trilogy, telling a story of love and loyalty, passion and perversion, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; biographical novels that chart one man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood, going to the very brink of suicide and the effort to understand and come to terms with himself and his actions.

The first book follows the protagonist, Simon, through childhood, growing up with a distant father, and his developing friendship and eventual love affair with an older boy.

Members Reviews:

My personal thoughts & feelings on this book

I found this story to be sad and true, based on my own personal experiences as a young child. At 5 to 9 years old, I was molested by my father's best friend and then passed around when ever he baby sat me, which was quite often as my parents traveled alot. On more than one occasion I tried to tell my parents but they did not believe me and I was punished with my G/F's razor strap! I learned to keep my mouth shut after that!

Later on @ 11 yrs. old I met and had a long time sexual afair with a new neighbor boy also 2 years older then me. At 17 yrs. old his dad was transferred to San Diego, CA. and I cried to myself for for days, he was my protector, my best friend, my confidant, etc. To this day we are still in contact with each other, both of us are gay and have been in long term relationships. Jim for 29 years and myself for 25 years. My better half and I are the same age and Jim and his partner are two years apart.

I found this book to be a hard read at times and shed many tears, the strugles to over come the bullies, the name calling, the learning problems, the over bearing and eratic teachers, etc. is terrible and to this day I do not understand why parents/teachers do not stress it enough to be understanding and kind to other kids, they must remember how it was for them growing up! Not all of us were born blond, blue eyed and perfect, most of us had acne, secrets, fears and struggled to understand all that was happening to us, around us and to our bodies as we matured and grew! Some were lucky to matured alot faster than others, learned subjects in school alot easier, while dealing with the mysteries of our body, mind and everything else! Others of us took awhile longer to catch up!

I feel that this author did an outstanding job of describing the truth of the matter and dealt with the slowness of maturing for one child, the over protective best friend and the sexual contex in a truthfull and honest way. (Based on my own personal experiences anyway) We can't ban all materials because they may or may not give someone their jollies, if that were the case; then all advertisements/bill boards/store adds, etc. showing children/pre-teen & teenage boys in underware, men in their underware and women/girl's & teenage girls in bra's, panties, slips and nylons need to be included in that ban, because someone some where will get their jollies one way or the other! Oh and let's not forget the ladies high heal's either, those adds are so enticing, yeah right.

That's my opinion anyway. I hope that you will down load this book and read it for what it is; a well written story about pre-teen's growing up, friendship/bonding and experiencing their first sexual encounter and the journey they take down the road of life after.

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Title: The Last of Us

Author: Rob Ewing

Narrator: Maggie Service, Angus King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The island is quiet now.

On a remote Scottish island, five children are the only ones left. Since the last adult died, sensible Elizabeth has been the group leader, testing for a radio signal, playing teacher and keeping an eye on Alex, the littlest, whose insulin can last only so long. There is 'shopping' to do in the houses they haven't yet searched and wrong smells to avoid.

For eight-year-old Rona, each day brings fresh hope that someone will come back for them, tempered by the reality of their dwindling supplies. With no adults to rebel against, squabbles threaten the fragile family they have formed. And when brothers Calum Ian and Duncan attempt to thwart Elizabeth's leadership, it prompts a chain of events that will endanger Alex's life and test them all in unimaginable ways.

Reminiscent of The Lord of the Flies and The Cement Garden, The Last of Us is a powerful and heartbreaking story of aftershock, courage and survival.

Critic Reviews:

"An amazing book of courage and survival...a book about memory, friendship and hope. It's the kind of book that made me want to wake my children from their beds, just to kiss them and whisper that I love them. A tremendous novel - I absolutely loved it." (Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days)

Members Reviews:

A thoughtful post-apocalyptic book...

Very gripping from the start. Started it yesterday, listened for hours, then this morning, actually woke up and just sat listening without my usual multitasking as it was engrossing enough to hold my complete attention.

Though the protagonists are children, it is definitely not a story for children. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a thoughtful post-apocalyptic book.

Good story a bit depressing

A sad story about island life when it all goes wrong with the world. A bit heavy near the end of the book. thought provoking.