Black Winter

De: Beauregard Michael NeVille, Cole NeVille

Narrado por: Tristan Sartoris

In the near future, the planet is covered in snow. Nobody knows why. A group of people are living inside a military facility that was designed to be self-sustaining and can last forever so long as the food doesn't run out. Captain Alec Winter is among the people trying to survive and they will all be tested with the arrival of two strangers and something lurking in the shadows of the storm. Alec will have the fight for his life and everyone that he cares about. He just has to avoid becoming the very thing that threatens everyone's survival.

©2020 Beauregard and Nikoli NeVille (P)2025 Beauregard and Nikoli NeVille

Excellent Book

This was a great book. So excited for the next installment. For me the first chapter was a bit challenging, but then I had a hard time putting it down. Great read!

Must read!

From start to finish you are captivated into this world. I highly recommend you put this on all of your friends and families reading list!

A new sorta twist to the apocalypse.

Starts slow and confusing. Think it’s the narrator running on paragraphs. No pause so it’ll begin on one thing and run into something else. Also a little amateur in the writing but after taking a bit to get in to the story it’s worth a listen.
A couple soldiers protecting a secret fall out place. Lab experiments create good and bad “monsters”.

Loved the story, hated the narration.

The story was fun and very enjoyable, and It's centered right where I live, so it was relatable. the narration, however, was not good at all. It almost made me return the book a few times in the beginning. The forced deep growly voices for some characters was bad and distracted from the story.

Trash - I want my money back

Black Winter was a deeply disappointing read. It feels less like a novel and more like propaganda for those who fetishize the military. The protagonist’s recounting of his time in Afghanistan includes disturbingly dehumanizing language—claiming Afghan children are raised to hate and kill Americans, as a way to justify their deaths. This rhetoric not only misrepresents the reality of war but crosses into outright xenophobia and racism.

Throughout the book, any non-white character is either vilified or stripped of humanity. It sends a harmful message that seems to reinforce white saviorism while demonizing people of color. The narrative itself is simplistic—written at what feels like a middle school reading level—and lacks any nuance or depth.

To make matters worse, the audiobook performance is flat and awkward, reminiscent of a poorly dubbed PS1 cutscene.

In short: Black Winter is a poorly written, politically troubling book that relies on harmful stereotypes and oversimplified narratives to push an agenda. I cannot recommend it.

Pretty not good

First I have to say no one would want to read a book I wrote or listen to one I narrated…..Also I bought this book because I actually live in Layton Utah and the cover of the book with the Layton Hills Mall caught my eye. So I know the area and was actually stationed at Hill AFB which is in the story.

The narrator is just ridiculously awful. All of the male voices, with the exception of I think Brian, are just over the top acted out. Seriously like a parody of what actual guys sound like. The older men and fathers of the main characters are given crazy deep voices for really no reason. The main character in the story sounds like a California frat boy named Skylar. But whats really crazy is the female voices are actually pretty good! Like totally believable. The narrator is obviously a guy so it makes no sense. Id much rather listen to virtual voice than this guy.

Now I only made it about 1.5 hours into the book before tapping out so maybe at 2 hours the narrator switches to regular human mode but the story just immediately started out bad. For one thing there were so many unnecessary flashbacks to the same event that had nothing to do with moving the story forward. 1 or 2 flashbacks explained enough. Seems like there were 5 or 6 basically covering the same thing. Then there’s the whole distance between places called out in the book. I totally get that the world is covered in snow and it’s snowing all the time and visibility is bad….but you can literally see Hill Afb from the Layton Hills mall parking lot. Its like 2 miles away. The “nuclear powered bunker” with apparently no military personnel inside running things, is described as fairly close to the mall and therefore the base. So everything they talk about makes zero real world sense.

Audible wont let me return this title so im stuck with it.