Invasion

Invasion, Book 1

By: Jay Allan

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

The future holds all sorts of positive potential: technological advancement, increased life expectancy, improvements to society. But negative possibilities exist, too. Perhaps the worst of these is the arrival of an alien race - not just any alien race, but a hostile one intent on conquering humankind.

Hugh McDaniel lives in Queens, New York. He's a genius, and he has been struggling to pick one area to focus his life’s work on. His brother and best friend, Travis, is a marine officer. They get along very well, despite their differences. When aliens suddenly invade and destroy their entire culture, they are forced to struggle together in the ruins.

At first they just tried to survive; to collect food, medicine, weapons, and to find other survivors. But now, they've set their sights higher: on resistance and reclaiming their planet from invaders.

The enemy doesn't remain silent for long, and they start sending missions into the ruins, to gather humans and carry them off to unknown places with an unknown purpose. Hugh and Travis lead a constant battle against them; a fight against the enemy that will not end, that cannot end, until only one side remains. But Hugh has a forlorn plan: a way to, just maybe, defeat the impending massive assault on the humans of New York.

While Hugh frantically prepares his crazed operation, Travis leads the desperate mission to find the enemy and discover what they really want. And when he does, it is more terrible than anything he had ever imagined. He must return home to bring the news that the engagement between humans and aliens is absolutely a fight to the finish and that surrender isn’t even a possibility. But will he even have a home to return to?

©2021 Jay Allan (P)2021 Podium Audio

Another story another happy buyer!

r.c. Bray is always a good listen

this is the first I heard of Jay Allan but man A for effort. if this is his first book/series it'll be tough to follow. I was on the edge of my sit. great job!

Overall great book

A little repetitive at times but a good story with an interesting plot.
As usual bray delivers.

R.C.Bray brilliant as always.

So annoying how we are constantly reminded how clever, brilliant, intelligent, clever, blah blah, brainy, that Huw is - aaargh! otherwise great...

repeated same lines constantly! painful

The story line itself is great. R.C. Bray as usual is awesome. But OMG how many times in a minute I r two do the exact same lines have to be repeated. At first I thought it was just setting up the realism but it kept going thru the WHOLE book!!, Seriously, If those repeated lines were rem9ved the whole story could have been told in literally 1/3rd the pages. I may restart book 2 just to see if it followed tge same maddening pattern as the story itself is quite good and well narrated. But if it follows book 1 I will return it and be done with it. To relate how frustrating it was, this is the first negative review I have ever give in hundreds of audiobooks. I am very careful and research before purchasing and committing to a series. R.C. Bray as narrator I think was what swayed me and the fact I was struggling to find a new series to listen to.

So much fluff and repetition

There are a lot of phrases and ideas that keep getting repeated over and over. Whenever the plot was getting interesting it would get interrupted by "he knew that.., he realized that...", and the repetition would start again. Very frustrating.

WOW !!! more more more more more more more

Excellent story, kept me listening everyday, bummed out its over. I listen to books Bray narrates automatically but this story is good and even i could of narrated it and it would be a top book!

Hugh is smart, so smart. Hes smart

After being reminded that Hugh us smart 50 million times. pragmatic does not equal smart. He is so smart he does nothing of consequence before the invasion. Take a shot everytime he tells us hes smart. you won t make it to chapter 3.

repetitive

I thought it was a good story line just it was so repetitive over and over

Well…….

On a good note they got Bray to narrate it. If you need a good book to turn into a drinking game this is it! Have a shot every time the author uses a 1/10 or 1/100 or so on statistic and by the end you’ll be so drunk that you won’t care how absurd the story is any more. Also look for the word that has to be new to his vocabulary because throughout this book he’s definitely trying to take ownership of it! I will let you figure out what it is! As for the other books of the series, I think I’ll pass. This one was more than enough for me! ;)

Love the Narrator!

Narration was Great! However the story was repetitive and drawn out. Hard to finish!