The Fifth Kind: Awakening

Dark Nova Series, Book 2

By: James D. Prescott

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

In Chile's Atacama Desert, a startling discovery threatens the very fabric of reality. Satellite imagery reveals an anomaly, thirty kilometers wide, radiating a power that appears to mutate everything in its path—and it's growing.

Is this merely a Drax ploy designed to reassert their control over humanity, or is it a cosmic event beyond anyone's understanding?

Soon, Dr. Shepard, Colonel Peters, and their elite team are dispatched to investigate the phenomenon. But nothing can prepare them for what awaits.

From the shocking secrets of a reclusive Japanese billionaire to the crimson dunes of the Red Planet, this pulse-pounding odyssey will challenge everything you thought you knew about our place in the cosmos.

©2023 Robert Cote (P)2024 Robert Cote

narrator

narrator whispers too much and yells loudly. he needs to narrates more evenly. otherwise ok.

Not as strong as the Extinction series..

Firstly, I’d say the most important thing to know about this series is that the reader should take it at face value for what it is and what it isn’t. It is, a fast moving story of discovery and conspiracy that’s consistently evolving and changing its shape from one moment to the next. It isn’t, a book with very well realized characters or character growth, novel ideas or concepts framed in unique ways, nor a story that’s going to stick with you long after the fact and keep you thinking about it. I’d equate both the fifth kind series and the extinction series with a summer blockbuster like Independence Day; fun to watch, but not really that much there beyond the surface.

I’d also note that Prescott’s writing seems to regress from the extinction series to this series. I felt like the characters and dialogue was much less natural, and much harder to “believe” in this second series. He also continues his habit of having “chemistry” arise between the main female character and whichever male character she’s currently sharing a location with. It feels clunky and odd when Dr. Shepard randomly gets excited by watching one male character disassemble a rifle, then starts to show interest in another male character when they’re offering comfort. Like the main female character in the Extinction series, she seems to be “in to” whoever is around at the time.

Very satisfying one the best this year

The key players in a movie for the mind, developed great images, Fifth Kind is food for the mind and soul. I have uncovered a few excellent writers after some vision loss and making it to 72, I am enjoying reading and listening to new books.
I try to add more writers to my diet. (My wife calls me a book eater) Now I have found J Presscott. James feeds the need for a great story!

GimmeMore

Just as good if not better than the first. Where is book 3 ? I really hate not being able to binge on these types of stories

A little too sci fi.

It's always uncomfortable when a male writes female characters. Lacks background info to hold the "sun is dying" line.