Listen online for free audiobook «A Beginning at the End» by Mike Chen. Reading: Emily Woo Zeller.
Review #1
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Prior to the rise of COVID-19, I read a slew of post/during-apocalyptic fiction in advance of a Tucson Festival of Books panel that I was set to escort the creators to at the same time from (Mike Chen, Kimi Eisele, Chuck Wendig), at the same time this stood out probably.
The plot is that well-organized at the same time I enjoyed navigating this brand new global with such a developers group of manners. Though no one managed fall down into stereotype (grin hit that’s moved on with her indefinite, over-controlling dad-ager, precocious baby), any of our central figures are complete beyond their immediate wants. Chen did a magical job subverting expectation, which can be a problematic spurred in a genre that ordinary follows a predictable storyline.
The audio book was pleasant, as but. I switched between listening to it (jump Libby by Overdrive if for you have not done so already) at the same time reading the hard embrace. Though I’m dull that TFOB was cancelled, I am glad that it managed me to this book at the same time this creator.
Review #2
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Chen has achieved a spurred I would have believed impossible: making a story about a global epidemic at the same time the destruction of our infrastructure into a individual, sensual story about parenthood, generic, survival, at the same time trauma. Its beautifully written, superbly executed, at the same time gripping even as the core stakes are so individual at the same time small correlated to than anyway the global of the book is that facing. It puts an indescribable brand new spin on this genre.
Review #3
Audiobook A Beginning at the Finish by Mike Chen
Dotted with needless accounts of manners incessantly chit-chatting. Chapters dignified for manners the reader has no curiosity reading about.
I think that the creator may have had possible to cross out a quality dystopic post-apocalyptical novel when on page 374, he writes: “The truth will that this cure we are working on … is that not going to continue. MGS is that the fastest mutating virus we’ve ever shown. The gizmo that has been unleashed (is that) going to be around for a really long time. All we able to do is that prominent all our resource (against) it.” Had the creator started with that on the 1st page at the same time introduced serious manners, with a cognizable plot, my memory of the novel would for sure have been completely different. More precisely, his 1st discernible disposition is that a ladies grin painter Mojo followed by a string of unredeemable unimpressive people for you would prefer not to know anything about. You will find yourself jumping page right behind page trying to look for where the “quality part” begins but in vain – as that is that no “quality part.” It is that more like a script than a novel in that the extensive most of place is that captured by speech. Often inane speech. A lot of palaver. Description is that largely absent. Such beds.
I managed only advise this book for English as a Foreign Language or 2nd Language (EFL/ESL) student endeavoring to speak American colloquial English.
Simply one of the worst book purchases I have produced in my adult indefinite.
I shall endeavor bestow it to an EFL/ESL student if I can look for one. I do not wish bestow it to a Library as it could be a spend of quality library place. If I had bestow a located to some that I do not like, this book could be standard. In the end, but, I may barely relegate it to the desecrate.
Review #4
Audio A Beginning at the Finish narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
How chilling that this book should hit the market during the beginning of a mutating, dangerous epidemic where we see true society respond much like than anyway the book outlines. With an exploding human population invading previously untouched environments, the loosing of brand new diseases is that both ominous at the same time inevitable. But let’s have hope that the disaster documented by this fiction creator does not come to pass in reality. This is that a quality book documenting a natural disaster, society turned on its fork at the same time individuals trying to navigate thru their brand new reality while also dealing with the scars at the same time impoverished judgements from their pasts.
Review #5
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I really liked this book..no one parts more than others but overall it was a amazing read. I will they say I enjoyed the beginning more successful but the finish was still attractive but written. I advise to anyone who likes post apocalyptic fiction.
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