The Immaculate Void

By: Brian Hodge

Narrated by: Grahame Bywater

You wouldn’t think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of millions of miles distant, would have anything to do with each other.

When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor’s tool shed and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through.

You wouldn’t think that the serial murders of children and the one who got away would have any connection with the strange fate of one of Jupiter’s moons.

Two decades later, when Daphne goes missing again, it’s nothing new.

As her exes might agree, running is what she does best, so her brother Tanner sets out one more time to find her. Whether in the mountains or in his own family, search and rescue is what he does best.

But it does. It’s all connected. Everything’s connected.

Down two different paths, along two different timelines, Daphne and Tanner both find themselves trapped in a savage hunt for the rarest people on Earth, by those who would slaughter them on behalf of ravenous entities that lurk outside of time.

So, when things start to unravel, it all starts to unravel.

But in ominous signs that have traveled light years to be seen by human eyes, and that plummet from the sky, the ultimate truth is revealed: There are some things in the cosmos that terrify even the gods.

©2018 Brian Hodge (P)2020 Journalstone

Decent cosmic horror poorly narrated

I wanted to like this story, it’s been recommended to me endless time, but the narration was so dull and monotonous that it was impossible to get interested at all. Just read the book for yourself, the narration provides zero interest value.

Cosmic horror delivered deadpan

Narrator kinda reminds me of Ben Stein. Kinda works once you get used to it. Bring coffee, the story makes staying awake worthwhile.

4 star book, 1 star narrator

I guess they were going for boring narrator? Didn't work. And he sounded like Prison Mike from The Office for one character.

Good story, bad narration

I really wanted to listen to this story because I've heard good things about it. Even though a lot of reviews talked about how bad the narrator was I decided to listen anyway. I figured it couldn't be that bad, I was wrong, it was so bad! It was like one continual sentence the entire story. Even when the author switched characters there was not even a break just continual talking, no change in character voice to indicate that we have switched from the brother to the sister. It would go minutes into a chapter before I realized we had switched. Sooo bad! Story was good, but by the end I was ready for it to be over and didn't care about the story anymore.

Terrible Narration

I think this is a good story but the confusing narration made it difficult to follow.