The Coming Dark

De: D.J. Molles

Narrado por: Scott Aiello

Trained from ten years old to deal violence to the violent, the Deathbringers take their oaths extremely seriously: Protect the weak, and foster the evolution of good.

All Liam Avione ever wanted was to be a Deathbringer. Almost twenty years old now, he’s approaching the last six months of the decade-long training program, hopeful for his future as a protector of the Universe.

One, slight problem: he’s got a genetic defect that he’s been keeping a secret. But as the training intensifies, so do his symptoms. Which are really hard to hide when they cause him to puke, pass out, and have a seizure in front of the training cadre.

Before he knows it, he is dismissed from the Deathbringers and sent back to live with the civilian “Lifebringers.” Struggling to fit in, or even find a job, Liam is relegated to working in a kitchen and repeatedly trying to convince himself, This is your life now. So when Liam gets a slim chance at redemption, he knows he has to take it, genetic defect be damned.

His second chance comes in the form of a Trial–an extremely rare occasion where Lifebringers are given an opportunity to test their mettle against Deathbringers in a seven-day contest. If Liam survives, he’ll get an opportunity to train as a Deathbringer again. The Trial is supposed to be non-lethal, but within hours of being dropped on an abandoned jungle planet, Liam and a handful of other volunteers start to find the terribly-mutilated bodies of their friends.

It becomes obvious that the Deathbringers aren’t the only things hunting them. An ancient evil is pushing its way through the fabric of space and time, intent on bringing death and destruction to the Universe. And the only thing standing in its way are some untrained Lifebringers, and a former almost-Deathbringer. And he’s feeling just a little bit pukey at the moment.

What could go wrong?

Everything. And it does.
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The Coming Dark is a fast-paced space marine sci-fi adventure of heroism, survival, and the fight to hold back a malevolent force invading reality.

©2025 D. J. Molles (P)2025 Audible, Inc.

Can't fight destiny!

Great space, military, post-apocalypse coming off age story. only life doesn't turn out the way Liam plans. He finds himself forced out of the fighting unit he always thought he was destined to be a part of, cast into a life of blissful ignorance and away from everything he's been training for. As a second chance comes around he finds he's part of a deeper destiny that no one ever realized.
The story line has the right amount of twists and tension to keep you invested throughout the book. Scott does a fantastic job narrating. I especially love how he keeps character for each and can transition between them so seamlessly.
The book ends leaving you wanting more and I must imagine DJ Molles has something brewing for our deathbringer friends!

Awesome Book

The Coming Dark is a thrilling journey through another post-apocalyptic world imagined and incredibly written by DJ Molles. With deep character arcs and relentless tension, it explores the fragility of humanity amidst chaos and despair.
From the age of 10 at the Choosing, our hero has trained to be a warrior for any peaceful race facing evil. The Deathbringers are the protectors of the helpless. Still no one understands the depth of Liam’s sense of duty until evil comes for humanity. He will turn what he considered a curse into creating battle strategies only he is capable of, he will use all his skill against the invading evil and he will give past his human endurance.
There just has to be a sequel to The Coming Dark! I am so ready for more!

Absolutely Superb in every way a book can be superb!

I enjoy DJ’s books. Rather, I have enjoyed every book by DJ Molles I have read. This is the first Mil / Sci-Fi book by DJ I’ve read and by the title of my review you can correctly assume I absolutely enjoyed it. Of course with every book 📕 Vincent action I do get impatient with the first internal dialogue, but I realized that’s like literally in every single action book I’ve read or listened to. I also thought that all those books would have been a little shorter had they not included it, which is not to say I’m a proponent of it, being a veteran, I am more in the camp of, “Just kill them.” But I’m not an author, I sit on the other side of that equation, so I stick to saying what I like and what I don’t like and try to not pretend that I actually know better when I don’t. There are a lot of reviewers in the land of Audible who - at least by the content of their reviews consider themselves the worlds greatest author or at least the worlds greatest critic. I am neither. I’m just a guy who enjoys a well-written and well narrated book and that’s exactly what this is.

My first reaction after finishing this book was to hit my browser and search for “the coming dark by DJ molles book 2?” Unfortunately, I didn’t find any results, but this book is prime for a series.

I truly hope you enjoy it as thoroughly as I did. The book reads like a great deal of effort was put into it. It’s pretty obvious to me that DJ didn’t sit down and just throw a bunch of words together. The characters have depth, the characters evolve (some anyway) and the action is pretty damn good.

I hope that someone who follows DJ on social media (I don’t really do social media) will ask Mr. Molles to get hot if he hasn’t already on the 2nd, 3rd, etc books because this one will be quite an adventure.

Thanks for reading.

Most enjoyable!

Your creativity on this one is outstanding! Enjoyable to listen to! Right away you draw us to our hero’s side in a world totally unreal for my mind. Yet it was great turning off that part of my mind and simply going with it.
Thank you for no bad language, I knew you had it in you!
This narrator was perfect for this listen!

More than enough to take you away

Great story, with plenty of similarities to his other books. The only distraction was the weird timing of birth the wraiths and pharoxs. How could they spawn so many on mother in such short time? Doesn’t make any sense compared to only one being on the home planet. Why didn’t they send Liam immediately who had proven he can find the graves fast…

MOOOOOOORRRRREEEEEE PLEEAAASSEEEE!!!!!!

Oh damn it’s good to see wimsby slinging lead! The story telling aspect matching breaking gods gives me hope for another banger of a trilogy.

great narrator, compelling story. love it

I really enjoyed the Godbreaker series and was beyond thrilled to hear Whimsby's name when listening to this. Can't explain how excited I am to continue in this universe!!!