Last Light - The Complete Series

By: Justin Bell, Mike Kraus

Narrated by: Andrew Tell

Length: 59 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

A revolutionary technology. A sinister foe. A desperate fight for survival.

Get the complete Last Light series and see why listeners call Mike Kraus "the love child of Stephen King and Michael Crichton."

When a new drilling method enables access to a deep source of renewable energy, all expectations are that Ultilitron will champion a new era in electricity production.

When the lights go out and the killing starts, the country's emotions quickly turn from elation to fear.

As a sinister foe emerges from the shadows, the survivors of the initial disaster must band together to survive, lest their lights be snuffed out like the countless others before them....

*****

An intensely thrilling and terrifyingly nail-biting series, Last Light is a post-apocalyptic adventure from Justin Bell and Mike Kraus like you've never seen before. Taking the tropes of post-apocalyptic and simultaneously turning them on their head and masterfully playing to them, Justin and Mike deliver a heart-pounding series that will both excite and terrify you with every chapter. In this complete edition of Last Light, you get the entire series (Last Light, Cold Snap, Dark Void, Hard Road, Dead Wrong, Into the Fire, Slow Burn, and Final Darkness) all in one package.

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Awesome idea terrible execution

I am about halfway through and struggling to finish. It might be a combination of the writing and the way the narrator speaks, but it's a slog. Which is frustrating considering the book has a very interesting premise. I find myself actively rooting for the monsters every time the daughter speaks.

Apocoliptic Action/ Family Theme

likes: the continuity over 8 books was good. The character growth was good and most things made sense. I really appreciated that there was just enough of an explanation for the creatures to be believable. Also, I loved how people who didn't function "normally" in society excelled when the world came down for different reasons. I work with special needs kids and found this to be a nice addition to the book. One character had adhd tendencies and was overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of every day life while the other one was mentally stunted, but was able to be a better human than his non disabled peers when left to make tough decisions.

dislike: how many things will happen to one group of people any given moment. The main characters are the only ones who really get kidnapped, but never killed. With 8 books it is tough to make something new happen and at some points it felt repetitive. Also, not sure why one character (Atler) was able to do what he did (trying to not spoil it) with the monsters. The explanation was weird and vague, especially with what happened to the rehabilitated drug guy later on. It was conflicting. Atler is a violent man and the drug guy was more like a hippie, so aligning with why the monsters are attacking it just doesn't make sense to me.

overall: good books. if you like zombies/ monsters you will like it. The books are really about family and survival with lots of monster o. human and human on human violence. The main characters are separated throughout most of the books and are dealing with the physical and mental strain of not having eachother (farmermother doing more physical jobs husband usually did not knowing if he is alive or not while raising their daughter; military father sent far away on training mission when lights go out must fight to get home not knowing if his family will be alive). It touches on the cruelty and selflessness of our humanity. Each character represents an aspect of our society (deep thinking) and the good and bad each one brings with them.

Good concept

Love this genre, good overall listen with good overall concept. Timeline and practical fighting and sustainability could have been more thought out

ILast Light

Loved the fact they didn’t feel it necessary to have profanity in this book! It was action packed and well written! Very Well Done!! Loved it

I really enjoyed this story!

I really enjoyed this story! The human conditions of power, greed, and ego, are well portrayed in this. I could actually see this story continuing in other areas of the world.

Character development and evolving storyline.

This story continued to grow, gripping me by the throat and refusing to let go. This story cost me a great deal of sleep. I just couldn't put it away. I loved it.

Not like the rest

Very well delivered. The story keeps you from beginning to end. Some of the characters got ony last nerve but that what makes a good story.

Started out good with just progressively. Got worse!

The story had some good quality and good possibility, but had a lot of really big holes, and the characters made really unfathomable bad decisions, that no soldier or semi intelligent human being would make. It was like they were intentionally making stupid decisions in order to make their life more difficult, which made the book aggravating to the point that I couldn’t even finish it.

Love the characters

I love the character development in this series and have grown very attached to each one

Different take of when sHF

Loved story line and characters ! If ya like close to end of world and human race this is for you!