Terminus

De: Peter Clines

Narrado por: Ray Porter

Murdoch’s past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He’s been happily avoiding them for ages, trying to live something close to a normal life. But now he’s been drawn back into another one of their ludicrous attempts to bring about the end of all things.

Chase has spent the past year just trying to get away. Trying to escape the memories that won’t stop following him, the moment when his life collapsed. He’s traveled around the world trying to stay ahead of it all, but those final moments may be catching up with him at last.

Anne is tired of living in the past. She’s finally looking to the future and embracing her destiny. She’s going to lead the Family forward on their greatest, final crusade to destroy the hated Machine of their long-time adversary.

Their paths will intersect in the middle of nowhere, on an uncharted island where the walls of reality are thin...and an apocalyptic threat is tearing its way through.

©2020 Peter Clines (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

If you liked 14 and the fold......

Some new characters, some characters you will know. loved the the twists and turns. too many spoilers to say too much. But I was glad to get more on the story from the fold and 14.

MORE THRESHOLD PLEASE!!!

Love this series, relisten over and over. Super excited about this one.
TERMINUS was a little harder for me to follow. Love the characters and RAY PORTER. Feel like it’s building up and “gathering” and hope for more and more and more of this story - this world - to unfold.
Liked DEAD MOON as a far-off off-shoot, because I love space scifi and zombies and found the characters engaging. But glad to be back.
14 is my favorite, and TERMINUS was enjoyable to me as story/character development... not so much as a stand-alone story.
As a reference: I LOVE Wil Wheaton narrating John Scalzi (LOCK-IN, HEAD-ON & REDSHIRTS) and Ernest Cline, Adam Baldwin and Bronson Pinchot narrating Larry Correia (GRIMNOIR & TOM STRANGER), and Rosario Dawson narrating Andy Weir (ARTEMIS).

Not the best but ok for fans

If you liked 14 and the Fold, then this is an OK continuation of the theme and carries a couple of characters over. But it feels entirely derivative and I agree with other reviews that the constant over and over of “its huge” “it’s really huge” “it’s mind-boggling huge” gets REALLY OLD and never ceases. I hope Peter does a better job with the next one and helps bring the cast together and explain the Family.

it's okay.

it's okay, and I want to like it but for whatever reason I just didn't find it as gripping as others in the series.

A complete 180 from dead moon

Everything about this book brings back the greatness of the first two books in the series. Mysteries, dimensions. Squails, and Anne.

Clines is better than this

The story line is good, but the logical incongruities and the character development is unlike clines’ previous work.

Clines and Porter did it again!

I loved this book, as well as the others. check it out even if you haven't read 14 or The Fold.

Dissapointing

I loved 14 and The Fold, but this one was disappointing. No mystery, no new revelations.

Peter Clines does it again!

Another great edition to the Threshold series! Clines continues to keep me eager for more!

Cosmic Horror At Its Finest

Rating: 9.0/10

Thanks to the publisher and author for a listening copy of Terminus (Threshold #4) in exchange for an honest review. Receiving this LC did not influence my thoughts or opinions on the novel.

Terminus is cosmic horror at its finest, both on the small scale and the large. A great mix of characters, Lovecraftian mythos, and alternate realities make this a go-to for anyone who has enjoyed the Threshold series up to this point, or even those looking for a creature-feature on more of a god-like scale.

You know, it has been a WHILE since I read The Fold (Threshold #2) – almost 5 years in fact -, and even without having read 14 (Threshold #1) and Dead Moon (Threshold #3), I don’t feel like I missed out on a single thing going straight into Terminus. I read through some of the early reviews and they seemed to relay this same sentiment, though having read 14 would’ve given me a little more perspective as some readers tout this as its direct sequel.

Clines does a great job working with multiple story-lines, bridging the gap between all of the characters and their eventual rendezvous. While we are given glimpses into their pasts and can see motivations behind their actions, the cast is still fairly surface, but honestly, it doesn’t detract from the overall story being told here. If I had to pinpoint something to compare it to, I would have to say Godzilla: King of the Monsters. While you may think me crazy, check out Terminus for yourself AND THEN tell me I’m wrong.

Sort of hard to talk about the actual story without spoiling the listen for you, but I definitely recommend checking it out. Ray Porter, as always, does a fantastic job with the narration. Most of the way through, I seriously thought it was Seth MacFarlane jumping in, which I guess it sort of a compliment/maybe not? Ray can reach out and berate me if I’m out of line.