Apocalypse Now Now

By: Charlie Human

Narrated by: David Atlas, Fiona Hardingham

now now adv. a common South Africanism relating to the amount of time to elapse before an event occurs. In the near future; not happening presently but to happen shortly

Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. He's making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he's dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter who goes by the name of Jackson "Jackie" Ronin. Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save Esme. On a journey that takes them through the realms of impossibility, they must face every conceivable nightmare to get her back, including an odd brush with the apocalypse.

©2013, 2015 Charlie Human (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Needed South African narrators

I enjoyed the story but as a South African found the narration wanting. While the narrator's accents were not the worst attempts at South African accents I've heard. the pronunciation of South African names and terms was terrible, starting with mis-pronouncing the author's surname. Non South Africans will have no problem with the narration but South Africans will find the mis-pronunciations jarring as I did.

the narrator.....

I actually enjoyed this story. But the narration made it difficult to finish. This is one I wish I had just actually read instead of listened too

Great potential but tried to do too much

This book was a really interesting book is started off very interesting in the sense of how he was negotiating high school and the different factions. Unfortunately did it had a hard shift towards the more scifi elements of the story and it felt like it was almost a different book. If he would have done a better job of connecting the high school group negotiations with the Sy fi fantasy elements of the book I probably would have given it 5 stars. Nevertheless the protagonist was a great anti-hero and I would love to see more stories about him.

Kinda monotonous

I am not sure if it is the author or narration, but the book feels flat. It is a bit disjointed as well. The disjointed nature is part of the story, but, especially near the end, it just didn't make much sense.

Unapologetically gritty and entertaining

I was taken by surprise. I started the book without reading the full synopsis of the story. And I have to say this series (two books only so far) is a refreshing take on magic that doesn’t constrain itself to the commonly expected happy fuzzy feelings. It’s raw and unafraid to go beyond whys expected and delivers and engaging story with welcomed adult humor and emotions.