10:37

By: Jacqueline Druga

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's Summary

In a single moment of time, ninety percent of the world’s population drops dead. Throats closing, they choke, and unable to breathe, they die within seconds. It is just the beginning.

Judd Bryant, a survivor who does not succumb to the horrendous death, is a talented man with a zest for living. He faces his darkest hour until he finds a purpose in the form of Dawson, an eight-year-old boy with an unusual gift.The unlikely pair set out to find others, only to realize that each passing day is increasingly more dangerous than the one before. Their road becomes an obstacle course filled with unimaginable disasters.

Before long, they and a few other survivors come to the realization that the instant death of billions of people isn’t the end, it is the start of a massive natural event. A phenomenon that will change the face of the earth and in the process, push the boundaries of ‘survival of the fittest’.The extinction of mankind is at hand and not how they imagine.

©2017 Jacqueline Druga (P)2017 Jacqueline Druga

Loved the narration!

I love sci-fi apocalyptic novels so when I read the synopsis of this book I said "yes, please." The listen did stay true to its genre - earth was annihilated and surviving humans had to figure things out - but a crucial element of the new earth and its inhabitants was never explained.

Still, the narration made me not care too much about the details. Kyle Tait was exceptional. He was the glue that kept the story going and the emotion that kept me involved. In short, the best of why audiobooks rocks!

This was not my favorite listen but it was in no way my worst. I liked it (loved the narration) but the fiction in the science fiction fell short.

Loved it

Excellent original take on the end of the world
A handful of survivors must fight through storms and hordes of mindless people in search of salvation
Well narrated And highly recommended
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started off good...

This book started off really good unlike any other end the world stuff I normally read. it was fast paced and moved along quickly. Then somewhere around mid book started to get weird, not in a good way. I like books that are weird, but this one, was kind of really out there. It didn't help that the main characters in one of the groups, seemed to truly hate each other and argued most of the time. It was just something I didn't want to put up with it. The book did move back on track, and was interesting.

The narrator for this, Kyle Tait, did good job. I loved all of his voices, except for the nuns.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Great story

I came to really feel invested in the characters. The book flowed very fast so you felt like you had to hurry and read so as not to slow then down. I do wish the narrator had spoken the lyrics instead of singing, but the song was short and was not bad just not what I expected.

Best Apocalyptic Book in Years

There is no shortage of books where most of the population dies suddenly for some reason or other and only a few survive, and the reason for the death is far less important than the survivors and how their survival is handled. The first book I ever read of that nature was Stephen King's The Stand, a long time ago, and I have to say that as much as I love Stephen King, I like how this book handled the resolution of the survival better (though this book was not epic like The Stand, which is a good thing).

The survivors were a mixed bad - young, old, male, female, nice, not-so-nice -- and not everyone was into the idea of banding together for the greater good.

This book had a great take on the man against man, man against nature and man against himself set of conflicts which made for interesting reading and character growth. Narrator Kyle Tait did a great job with the voices and emotions which ranged from kids to seniors.

I was given this book in exchange for an honest review. I would happily listen to another by both this author and narrator.

Great listen

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

I enjoyed this book! I wasnt sure what to expect but this book a lot of good storylines and they were well thought out. I loved Judd and Dawson even though he had quote an advanced vocabulary for an 8 year old.

5 stars

Dawson remind me so much of my son. I enjoyed this read. Kyle did an amazing job, I had no problem following this story. He brought each character to life.

you need to make a sequel

there has to be a sequel please make a sequel just quick is amazing please make her number 2 there has to be a second book please please please make another book.this can't be the only one I'm addicted this is the greatest book of all time oh my goodness this book is a genius storyline that's never been done.come on please Jacqueline Druga please!! please!!! please!! please!! please!!! please!! please!! please!!! please!! write a sequel please let there be a second book I beg you

Starts fast ends faster

This book was awesome, while not taking much time to give backstories in the beginning, the action starts and doesn't end.

I loved it!

I was engaged from the first moment I started listening! This was the second book I listened to from this author and I look forward to listening to more! I highly recommend this book!

Interesting take on a busy genre

What did you like most about 10:37?

I enjoyed the new angle on the busy genre, the Narrator really brought the characters to life and made them likable or not depending on the story. There were also interesting relationships between the survivors.

What did you like best about this story?

The narration was excellent, it really brought the story together and the characters to life.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, it had a gripping story line - i listened to this book in just two sittings, sadly the ending was a slight disappointment.

Any additional comments?

I would like to see this story extended to a series. I was asked to publish an honest review in exchange for a free review copy of this audio book.

☺

I like this audio book 5 out of 5 I like all her work 😊

Sleep awake among the dead

This audible books to me this was the saddest not because of what happen to people but to the characters who survived. The battles, finding love ones dead or watching love ones die in front of you and you can not do anything to save them. After the event there is two type of people one who survived intacted and ones who survived but mentally handicapped only living on natural instinct they looked and acted zombies but they were not they never died or came back to life but one or hundreds of these people lived and breath as one and one minute decile the next mass murders who are wild animals.
All the characters are just regular people or gifted in someway they either hear where they need to flee to or they are people who dreams of this place and a person name Bill in Branson, MO and survivors can get there there is hope to survive and rebuild. The world is being reshaped by mother nature after men tampered with seeding the clouds one time to many and her plan is total destruction and rebuilding the face of the planet with earthquakes, tidal waves, sink holes and super land hurricanes. The survivors not only had survive the virus, the other beings who had turned into mindless humans but now they must figure away to survive mother nature and her wrath. The story is one of happenest, saddest, surviving, building trust with people you do not know but you have to so everyone can survive.
The characters range from a priest, a nun, a western singer, a sheriff, and a women with a grug against the world and all thru the story does not but cause trouble and then you have the youngest member a eight year old boy who is the one who lost the mom, dad and woke up in school with everyone dead.
I would say this a story of mankind getting a second chance but they must be willing to fight and die to help others to survive also a story of mankind having to be learn to live without items they were use to like computers, cellphones and all the comfort of life basically they went back to the dark ages and started all over and doing this will mankind make the same mistakes as before the fall of man.
I highly recommend this audiobook you will not be able to set it down,

Great narration

I really enjoyed this book, the storyline and narration were well done, I look
Forward to reading more from this author and to carry on the story

Very enjoyable

This book was very good, it could easily be made into a series, which I personally prefer. Taking just 6 hours over an apocalypse just seems a bit wrong. The narration was very good also.

not for me I’m afraid.

I've loved a couple of this authors books and jumped at the chance to give this one a good going over... it was just ok for me I’m afraid. mot my type of storyline. Others may devour it but I could not get into it at all.

Just ok

10:37 is an intriguing read at the start. It begins right in the action creating countless questions. The problem for me was that very few of these questions are properly answered to any extent. Further the "Trancers" had alot of potential for interesting plot development but the just became pseudo-zombies which felt cheap.

Secondly I found the characters acted like carboard cutouts that only really acted to move the plot forward which made them hard to relate to and feel empathy for.

There is definitely a good story underneath these problems that could potentially be fixed with a good editor or redrafts.

Kyle Tait (The Narrator) did a pretty good job of delivering this story however in places the delivery felt very monotonic.

Overall a just ok listen.

Call me Mr.Heston.

Eight years old Dawson is a bit of a dreamer, sometimes bullied and often in trouble at school. So when he wakes up and sees his classmates with their heads on their desks, he thinks that they were playing another trick on him, mimicking the way he had been sleeping. They weren't: they were all dead. And so was everyone else in his school and, when he finally ventured there, outside, too.
In another part of town, country music star, Judd, was reluctantly taking part in a publicity video, high up on a semi built construction site. Afraid of heights, he watched as first his best friend and manager then others fall the several stories to their deaths.
Suddenly everyone, it seemed, was choking and dying, car crashes and dead bodies everywhere with only a tiny handful of survivors. And then came the rain.

This very atmospheric apocalyptic story by Jacqueline Druga is different from any other of it's type. The characterisation of the half a dozen surviving humans we meet is superb: like them or not, each becomes a very real, three dimensional person - a cop, an embittered risk assessor, Dawson and Judd, a priest and a nun - even, briefly, the voice of someone in Australia. And then there is the person they call Tyre Man...

Narrated by Kyle Tait, the pace is gentle, perfect for the action, clearly read with good intonation, understanding a voicings for all of the characters. His interpretation is excellent, book and reader in complete harmony. Tension reverberates from start to finish.

Ms.Druga is a very talented author. I had read only one other of her books before, What Tomorrow Brings, another compelling mystery, and, after reading 10.37, fully intend to look out for more of her books. I was fortunate in requesting, and being given without any expectations from me, a complimentary copy of this story,, by the rights holder, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoyed it all, from the dramatic beginning, through unusual storyline to completion, the skilfully drawn characters and the excellent narration. And this is a book complete in itself.
Highly recommended.