Savior

By: Don Thomas

Narrated by: Scott Berrier

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

In the Near Future, a Red Death will cover the world. As civilization struggles to survive, one government emerges with a sliver of hope - The Strategic Agency against Viral Infections by Organized Resistance. SAVIOR.

SAVIOR delivered on the promise of a miracle cure, elevating themselves into legends...but behind every legend lies truths and secrets...truths and secrets former SAVIOR agent Steve Ryker has sworn to bring into the light...even if it kills him.

SAVIOR is the debut novel of author Don Thomas, a mainstay writer of Pro Se Presents, a two year award-winning New Pulp magazine.

Complete with fully realized characters, lightning fast pacing, and more meteoric action, SAVIOR proves to be a solid, taut science fiction thriller!

©2012 Don Thomas (P)2017 RadioArchives.com

Enjoyable

I really enjoyed the flow of the story. Narration was fantastic, just what I needed at the time.

Savior

This was well narated but SO full of characters and chaos that I could not keep up.“I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.”

A little chaotic

Would you try another book from Don Thomas and/or Scott Berrier?

I had trouble with the writing style (language / sentence structure etc) of this author, which made it difficult for me to follow the story. I would guess the premise of the book had some contribution to that. And thus I would give a different book from this author a chance, since I think he has a good eye for a good story.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The central premise is interesting, even though it sounds slightly predictable at times. To take us on this journey, the author makes use of "flashback" chapters, jumping between them and current time. Which goes alright most of the time. But I had some trouble keeping up with the progress since I was finding the writing style a little hard to follow, as mentioned earlier. I had to listen and re-listen multiple passages multiple times to understand what actually happened. Halfway through the book, it got too chaotic. imo, simpler sentence construction and better pacing would've helped.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Scott Berrier?

Scott Berrier did an apt narration of the book. Even though the books pacing was a little chaotic for me, the narrator was true to the book and matched it. His voice was clear and I had no difficulty hearing the story.

Any additional comments?

I received this audiobook for free from the author / narrator / publisher in exchange for an unbiased review.

So good!

I really enjoyed this sci-fi thriller. Unique story that was well written and great narration!


I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. The fact that I was gifted this book had no influence over my opinion of it

Cool blend of sci fi and post apocalyptic fiction

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

I thought this was a pretty good sci fi / post apocalyptic story. It is told from multiple points of view and jumps around a bit, but is well narrated and quite entertaining.

Not my cup of tea.

In a future world of sensitives (psychics) and genetically modified humans we find a government agency called SAVIOR, which means Strategic Agency against Viral Infections by Organized Resistance. This agency was formed to save mankind from a deadly virus that was decimating the world’s population. After the virus the procedures and tactics of SAVIOR were brought under the magnifying glass and the results were neither pleasant nor acceptable. The story progresses by jumping back and forth between historical flashbacks and present day. The plot is not what I was expecting nor is it my cup of tea. It’s actually somewhat confusing to me and the writing style to me is chaotic. This audiobook was given by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review via Audiobook Boom.

Good SciFi Tale

Savior by Don Thomas was a very enjoyable story with a variety of underlying themes. If nonlinear story telling is something that you can not stand this may not be something you won't enjoy. With multiple points of view from different characters.you are never really going from point A to B in the story. The story is fun and has enough action to keep you on the edge of your seat. I recommend the story for those who really are into this type of storytelling and follow this narrative style.

The narration is provided by Scott Berrier. This is the second performance of Mr. Berriers I have heard and he always delivers the action and brings great variety to the wide casts of characters. I really enjoy his work.

This review copy audiobook was provided by the author/narrator/publisher free of charge via Audiobook Boom for an unbiased review.

A Savior Agent always has a chance.

With a pandemic called alternatively Bleeding Mouth Disease and the Red Death Virus, and deaths in the United States rapidly rising, a cure is enthusiastically sought. Within weeks a drug is found which, although it cannot help those already infected, does prevent the regular user from contracting the illness. A temporary organisation, the Strategic Agency Against Viral Infections by Organised Resistance (Savior) is established to ensure a peaceful distribution of the drug and to calm outbreaks of violence caused by desperation. It is successful. However, before Savior can be disbanded, a second outbreak of a mutated form of the virus occurs and the carriers are taken into quarantine holding camps, sometimes unwillingly, by the new organisation. As more and more people are forcibly interned, resistance grows and Savior acquires increasing powers until it has absorbed most other government agencies within it with almost unlimited rights of enforcement for everything.

ISavior had been successful, in part, by the use of genetically altering some of it's operatives with both physical enhancements and psychic abilities, the most powerful tools of this latter being the young people who survive the treatment to become sensitives who can read minds. The main story follows one team of Savior Agents, considered heros, who worked with one such sensitive, a teenager named Ghost.

Initially, however, the book starts with a first person monologue by a man plucked from a different time line, a Priest from a desert and primitive society, come from the future to 2001. This introductory chapter was fascinating and promised far more than the book later went on to deliver. The rest of the story is told from the different perspectives and times of the Savior team, moving in a seemingly random manner between the various protagonists. Although exciting in substance, it is certainly marred by this constant jumping about and the thriller becomes more of a puzzle with characterisations also being degraded by this too frequent movement in person and time.

Scott Berrier, the narrator, has a deep and pleasant voice, solid and well suited to the story. His performance of character dialogue is very good, distinctive and individual. His text reading, too, is clear and well cadenced, except where there is a sizable amount of text to be read when an annoying rising intonation occurs at the end of many phrases leading to a slightly musical, sing song impression rather distracting from the story. Overall, though, a good performance.

This book was a good idea, both in story content and even in the erratic presentation but it became too disconnected to fully follow with any ease as well as leaving unexplained loose ends. There is plenty of detailed fight action as well as a level of characterisation, and events even have a certain plausibility muddled in with the more extreme scientific tamperings. Tidied up, it could be an excellent read.
My thanks to the rights holder of Saviour for freely gifting me a complimentary copy, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. It was not what I had expected but I enjoyed it, nevertheless. It is different.