Flashback Dawn: The Complete Series

By: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Narrated by: Brian Clarke

The complete sequel series to Flashback.

Naaygi found them waiting for her - as she somehow knew they would be - as the cage doors opened, their forward-facing eyes glinting the same hue as the lights in the sky and their dark, storm-colored bodies held absolutely still (even as another animal joined them and brought their number to four). She even knew somehow what they were, that they were a breed of carnosaur the "evolved" humans had called nanotyrannosaurs, the "Pygmy Tyrants", and that one of them, the one with the brand upon its tail, the leader, even had a name - Napoleon, for he had been bounced forward and back in time via another alien species well before the Flashback and still bore the scars of his sojourn among the humans. She didn’t know how she knew these things, no more than she knew just where, within herself, Naaygi ended - and they, the lights in the sky, began. She just did, just as she knew that the Nano-Ts represented a queer offshoot of the dinosaur population that was altogether fleeter and deadlier and cannier than anything that had come before it.

And thus she bowed to them, her avengers, her killers - their killers, the lights in the sky - the rain running in rivulets down her body as she dropped to her knees and touched her forehead to the pavement, a pavement which ran red with blood and was strewn with the dismembered, disemboweled corpses of at least 50 men and women.

And then she whispered to them in a language older than words, Follow me.

©2018 Wayne Kyle Spitzer (P)2018 Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Dinosaurs and Nazis

This came across as a science fiction short you would find in old magazines. It is enjoyable and felt like it was old school. The story is full of different things, dinosaurs, primitive girls, pygmy tyrants, and Nazis. With everything going on in this story in the end I wasn’t wowed by anything. There was a lot going on and it didn’t always seem like it should have all been there. That is actually what I liked about it though, like one of those low budget movies that you like for no good reason. I’m glad that this was the complete series. This story wouldn’t have been as good broken up into smaller pieces. There are other parts to this story and I would definitely recommend the beginning story titled “Flashback”, I found that one a lot more fun and delivered completely different.
Brian Clarke did a good job narrating. One of his character voices, the Dr., sounded like everyone’s attempt at Sean Connery, very enjoyable. I loved the singing he did from the radio in between conversation, brief but gave me a smile.
I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

lots of fun action

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

This was a fun romp through the dinopocalypse. The narration is pretty good. The overall experience was short but a lot of fun. If you want a quick 3 hour escape, you should definitely check this story out.

Meh. Got most of the way through and gave up.

I really hate giving negative reviews, but occasionally one is justified -- as in this case.

The good: The basics of a good story are there. Dinosaurs are back, along with some of the large prehistoric cats, and it's survive-or-die time for the humans. I love a good pulp science fiction tale. That's the ONLY reason I gave this three stars instead of two.

The bad: (1) Despite doing a decent Sean Connery impersonation, the narrator never really did anything for me. Everything other than the character voices was kind of flat and leaden to my ear. (2) Nazis. More specifically, Nazis and their Nazi scientists' experiments. (3) I'm sorry, but if you're (SPOILER ALERT) being eaten alive by a large predator, consciously taking note of what is happening to you isn't going to be your primary concern. Screaming in agony yes; seeing a body part in the gullet of said predator and thinking "oh, that's where X went" isn't. And wouldn't it be too dark in there to see anything even if you weren't going feet first? [Which is where I said, "Nope, I'm done." Not because of the gore, but because of the sheer stupidity of it all.]

Wonderful Serialized Novel

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This was interesting to say the least. The writing is well done and full of cool action. The suspense is amazing and makes you just want to keep listening. But, I didn’t have a real connection to any of the characters and I felt that they were not properly explored.

My real fault with this book has to be the narrator. Brian Clarke makes all the action sound boring. Sometimes, I would find myself distracted while listening, even during the action! The narrator alone made this audiobook difficult to get through.

All in all, I would strongly recommend to anyone that enjoys sci-fi action.

OK

There is nothing wrong with this audiobook, the narration and audio quality is fine. The book itself the concept is good and has lots of potential - but the title and the blurb say the complete series. It seems to start in the middle with no explanation and finishes before the end - like there was another series before and this series has more to come.
I found it confusing, Maybe I missed something.

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