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Title: Swipe

Author: Evan Angler

Narrator: Barrie Buckner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-12

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Logan Langly is just months away from his 13th birthday and the biggest day of his life - the day he will finally be marked. The mark lets people get jobs, use public transportation, or even buy concert tickets. Becoming marked means becoming free - or so he is told. Five years ago when Logan's sister went to get her mark, she never came back. Now Logan can't shake the feeling he's being watched.... And then he finds the wire.

Members Reviews:

Post apocalyptic tale

The story wove itself around a coming of age ritual of the new American Union and the choices, possibilities and danger that ritual represents. The narration had some interesting pronunciations that distracted me, but the story has interesting and not that predictable twists. It also raises some rather deep end times theological questions about how people will respond when faced with the choice of getting "the mark" or not. I was entertained and intrigued but couldn't give a 5 star rating because it , while quite good, isn't great. My standards are quite high though and, if you like this type of story, I am confident you will like this one too.

Don't bother

The scathing review I wrote immediately after finishing Swipe has mysteriously disappeared.

Now time has passed, my ire has cooled and Im little more than indifferent to this disappointing novel.

Im not going to make any excuses for it though it was poorly plotted, weakly characterised and worst of all, it was gave no resolution to the story it sorta-kinda-maybe started to hint at

Maybe it was aimed at more of a pre-teen audience and they would be a little more lenient on the clinched plot and lack of character development.

The cliff-hanger ending though is unforgivable in my eyes. It wasnt even a decent edge-of-your-seater that gave us a game changer and left us wanting more.

It just, um, stopped.

Honestly, in a hard copy of the book I wouldnt be surprised if the final word was dragged down the page because the manuscript had been tore out of the printer.

Worst of all, its stopped before the overarching plot actually got going! Ive never seen such a thing!

It is clear something in this bleak future society isnt right (Im quite certain its obvious what is going on but I am an older reader with a lot of dystopian fiction under my belt) but the main characters havent even begun to figure things out yet. Heck, they barely know something is even amiss yet!

That means there has been NO progress in this book towards Logan goal of understanding the issues and mysteries surrounding societys mark program.

I consider it a slap in the face when Im tricked into reading a book designed to start off a trilogy (hey authors, instead of demanding we read a mediocre trilogy by dragging out a thing plot, try writing one book so good that it makes us WANT more okay?)

For that reason, as well as many major plot and character issues, I strongly do NOT recommend Swipe or the series.

Not for Adults

What disappointed you about Swipe?

This book was written for a tween audience. I failed to notice that fact when making my first purchase on Audible.