The Box: The Temple of the Blind Series, Book 1

De: Brian Harmon

Narrado por: Norman Gilligan

When Albert finds a mysterious wooden box waiting for him in the driver's seat of his locked car, he has no idea that it will lead him on an extraordinary and terrifying adventure. Each clue he unravels leads only to more questions as he pieces together a map of the complex, subterranean system that lies beneath the city and the strange labyrinth hidden deep within. Can he discover the meaning behind the box? Or will the endless darkness and the things that lurk unseen within these walls swallow him forever?

©2011 Brian Harmon (P)2014 Cherry Hill Publishing, LLC

Great series.

I've listened to the entire series twice. I've also read every book by this author. Not your everyday day author, something different from the norm.

Save Your Credit! Adolescent Sex Cover to Cover!

I'm going to look into a refund. First of all, it's only 5 hours. I assume the next two in this awful series will be the same, so spend 3 credits for a tale that could be told in one audible book. Second, there's an intriguing start, with a mysterious, locked box found left inside the kid's car (who, by the way, is a virgin). Soon his much desired girl-friend-to-be finds a key to the box in her car. How this trick is pulled off, by who, or even why, is never explained. Our juvenile puzzle master eventually solves a highly unlikely set of clues that convinces them to go down and explore the maintenance tunnels under the campus. I won't turn this into a spoiler, but you need to know that the almost immediately lose all their clothes, and then 50% of the rest of this tale is spent with him thinking about her body, a 2 person orgy of sexual depravity in a room full of sexually explicit statues, him following her around watching and lusting after her rear end and privates, more bouncing their bones, her following him around lusting after his rear end and privates, much conversation about losing one's virginity, if you like books where nothing is solved and chock full of juvenile fantasies and sex acts, hey, then this is your kind of read. You might even learn something.

Good and will probably get better.

The narrator is just not OK. Same voice for both main characters. Little accurate inflection. Made me think I was listening to a 6th grader read a story to me.

Story is very good. I enjoyed the plot and the overall narrative.
I could have enjoyed it more with better use of a thesaurus. I started counting how many times the characters said “I don’t know.” It May have been a purposeful narrative device. I don’t know…
But on the whole, I’m glad I made the purchase and I’m downloading book 2.