Alice

Alice Series #1

By: Charles Lamb

Narrated by: David Drummond

Captain Jacob Thomas, USMC, is a divorced combat veteran just trying to get his life back on track. Returning to the marine corps after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his estranged wife, Jake volunteers for a DARPA experiment that catapults him into a future where humanity has been stripped of 200 years of technological advancements and more than half its population. With the help of a faceless benefactor named Alice, he escapes the confines of an abandoned lab facility and starts a journey to put Earth back on a path to recovery. Jake's path begins in the rich farmlands of central California and eventually places him in orbit and face to face with the very evil that started it all.

©2014 CW Lamb (P)2015 Tantor

Fair concept ridiculous at times, okay overall.

The scifi portions of this story are interesting and engaging. The social interaction is ridiculous at best. Written by a seemingly adolescent author with dreams of harems and only seeming passing knowledge of female behavior and motivation.

Yes there are sexual situations and suggestions

Don't know what all the fuss in the other reviews is about it was tame and in keeping with the story line. based on some reviews I expected non stop orgy descriptions.

Enjoyed it, good story and good reader.

Decent story, really weak performance

I enjoyed the story. However the narrator's lack of voice range and acting skill detract from the novel.

Alice Series is great.

when is book 3 coming out?
hard to find good story's like this.
I have book 1 and 2 and love them.
sorry for the typo on the book 2 review it should of said book 3 like this one.

good and bad

What made the experience of listening to Alice the most enjoyable?

it was a fun read, over all, has some problems but over all, fun.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of David Drummond?

anyone else, not enough voice variations.

Any additional comments?

First the good. I enjoyed it. it was fun and kept my interest throughout.
the cons: the reader has only one voice and it is sometimes hard to tell who is speaking. Also very little dramatization.
The adolescent male fantasy aspect was so bad that is actually got in the way of the story telling. The constant trading off (and comments by) the protagonists' harem was distracting though it did stop short of being explicit, so, no porn. Everything he tried no matter how far fetched still worked perfectly, solid future fantasy rather that science fiction.
But, I did enjoy it. and I will read the next round to see where the author goes. looks like a first novel. but fun.