Domain

The Domain Trilogy, Book 1

By: Steve Alten

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object isn't an asteroid.

For 32 years archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites - the Great Pyramid of Giza; Stonehenge; the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau; the temple of Angkor Wat; the Pyramid of the Sun; and the key site, the Kukulcán Pyramid at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán Peninsula, site of the ancient asteroid impact - represent pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the doomsday prophecy. Now only one person can prevent our annihilation: Julius' son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum.

Miami, 2012. Psychology major Dominique Vazquez reports to a Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patient - Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ. Mick attempts to charm her into believing his father's theories of the apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesn't realize is that she represents Mick's last hope of saving humanity.

Fall equinox, 2012. As it has done for 1,000 years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcán Pyramid. As a rare galactic alignment occurs, a deep-space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried long ago in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the beginning of the end.

©2016 Steve Alten (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Excellent

This book was very well written, with an interesting story. The characters were well developed and fairly believable A couple of irritations experienced with sophomoric dialogue, But it didn't ruin the book

Domain

Not the worst book I read on this subject but definitely one of the driest. I don’t know where the narrator was found but I’d send her back. She couldn’t make the various characters have different voices well enough and was very monotone. The story started out well with the radio telescope in Puerto Rico but soon got dry and boring, fell asleep and had to back up the chapters several times. This is the first time I ever gave a poor review on a book but in this case I’m being generous in giving it a C instead of an F, in all honesty I thought this author was the Steve Alten of the Meg series, perhaps this was a mistake on my part.

One of my all time favorite fiction books

I read this book about 20 years ago in hardcover and was looking to revisit it. The audiobook format did not disappoint. This story is so compelling and keeps you hanging on the edge of your seat. Steve Alten's thoroughly researched and detailed style of writing makes for a beautiful journey through his vision.

a decent book

I am a fan of many of the right as works. this piece was not one of his best but it wasn't bad. some of it tends to get a bit outlandish here in there. As usual however he draws you in with very interesting characters he is very good at getting you to care about. at some point it was a bit text bookie but all in all and enjoyable read.

Nice story... should have been abridged

The story in itself had a good format but I totally believe that the author was bound to a word count because there is so much of the book that is totally irrelevant because of the wordy content of the Characters. the character Dominique is one of the most educated stupid people I have ever read about in my life. This woman borders on an anti heroin because of her indecisiveness and willingness to not follow what's totally evident in front of her. if this is what the author wanted to portray this woman asked, he totally succeeded.

I really tried

Positive- interesting premise, i dug the storyline in Julian’s diary.
Negatives- literally everything else. Weak voice actor. A protagonist I just couldn’t care for. A story that could of been so much more.