Extinction Point

Extinction Point, Book 1

By: Paul Antony Jones

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Emily Baxter’s dream life turns into a waking nightmare the day the red rain falls. Like a biblical plague, the scarlet downpour spreads a hideous virus that demolishes life in New York City, the nation, and the world. Suddenly the last soul in an annihilated metropolis - and possibly on Earth - the onetime newspaper reporter must learn to scavenge, survive...and plan for a future of utter solitude.

Then, from far-flung Alaska, another living voice reaches out, and Emily grasps at her only glimmer of hope. But she may be even less alone than she thinks. The world is in the midst of a strange and frightening transition; something that fell with the red rain is remaking Earth in its own alien image.

Now, Emily alone will bear witness to the terrifying new evolution - and risk her life to outrun it, for the sake of the future and in the name of all that is human.

©2013 Paul Antony Jones (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Story Just Quits

I get it. This book is intended to be part of a series. But every book in a series shold stand alone. This one just stops. You can sense the advertisement, for the rest of the story, buy the next book in the series.

If this woman is an example of the survivors, then humanity truly is at its extinction point. She has very poor survival skills.

She doesn't drive, so she has to bicycle from NYC to Alaska. So, does she get freeze dried food when she's picking out survival gear. Nope. She opts for canned soup and canned fruit. Does she grab a survival knife. Nope. Batteries. Nope. Cycling clothes. Nope. A tent and sleeping bag. Nope. Etc.

Yet she goes back to her apartment after running into aliens in her building to get fresh underwear. C'mon. She could get that at any department store on her path. OK, she also went back to get the sat phone, but she shouldn't have left that or anything she needed when she left her apartment.

I'm sorry. If you're the sole survivor in NYC, the least of your concerns is a daily change of underwear.

Then she has the curiosity of Pandora instead of the good sense to keep on riding as a brush fire is dangerously close. Of course, that brings her face-to-face with dangerous aliens.

There's even a deus ex machine when her curiosity is getting her killed and a Malamute dog appears out of nowhere and saves her.

The narrator did a fine job. It's the author who offered a dimwitted protagonist and the hand of God to save her. I *might* have gone for the next volume, if the first didn't end so abruptly. Better yet, if this survivor died and the next started with someone with a little common sense.

well executed tale

great storytelling combines with great narration you deliver an entertaining experience.

although the story did not progress significantly asking an arc, the author did a masterful job of character development and world building, web though that world's wad planet earth.

I wil continue this series

I want to hear the next

I think it was good I need to get to the 2nd now so bye

Good story just have to get through the writing.

The story was a good suspenseful Sci fi / horror tale, but you have to get over the writing style that is just painful at points. the author goes into a level of detail that would make Steven King blush. We do not need a list of every single item the heroine packs, or sees, or smells, or feels...you get the idea. It's a good listen just be prepared to have the world laid out for you in excruciating detail.

Just okay

This story was just okay. A writing class quality work. It was not something I would recommend but held my attention.

excellent narration and story line highly enjoyed

this was a very enjoyable story particularly with those with appreciation of detailed story and science fiction

this girl is a total idiot

this book is very slow going to start. The main character is so dumb. She make some choices and doesn't take advantage of things that she could to help her on her journey. Half expected her to die in the first book.

It starts off great!

I really liked the beginning but as the book progressed I realized that I could not get through a sequel with a main character this dumb. I understand doing some things for suspense purposes but after a while you just think she is really dumb, like Paris Hilton dumb.

Interesting premise overshadowed by how tedious it was

I enjoy this genre, but the story moved way too slowly. It took hundreds of words to describe simple tasks like preparing food, shopping, packing a bag, applying tape to something etc. I don't need to know how many pairs of socks she is bringing with her, or what they are made of. I felt bad for the narrator,but she did the best she could. When she had to scream like a baby, I almost deleted the book. It turned into a war of wills between me and the book to see who would stop first. I suffered through it. I recommend this book (ideally for playing it to prisoners at Gitmo in lieu of waterboarding).

The last person alive in NY is a complete idiot

I agree, the odds are pretty good that that would be the case. Following this character I is like watching a bad horror flick. ( cut to hide behind the chainsaw rack commercial) The story is different,