Axiom's End
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3.8 • 36 Ratings
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- $24.99
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.
Truth is a human right.
It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn’t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government—and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him—until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades.
Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can, and finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being human—and could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
"Axiom’s End is one of the most unique science fiction novels in years. It’s a heartfelt story of alien first contact, but, luckily, unlike so many “big idea” sci-fi books, it’s utterly unpretentious." --SYFY.com
Customer Reviews
Decent plot. Well written. Narration was overly dramatic.
Although the narrator has a very pleasant voice, she unfortunately voiced the protagonist to be on the verge of tears for much of the book. Her voice cracking with emotion got old, fast.
Good Story, Exhausting Narrator
Great story, really. The narrator is killing me though. I mean I had to stop half way through the book to give this review bc I feel like it’s an over hormonal teenager narrating the story due to her constant over inflections and intonations whether it be when the characters are speaking, in between thoughts, location descriptions and/or even giving a description of a candy bar.
When high emotional expression is a constant throughout the audio story telling, the mind becomes exhausted and any level of tension or suspense loses its impact bc the narrator’s voice is keeping the reader at a constant pitch of “OMG” to every single moment.
I’m so
Again, I’m only half way through, but it’s doubtful her approach is going to change. The story would be so much better read to oneself rather than sitting through a constant exaggerated pitch.
So, great story, exhausting narrator ruins it. I’d give the book a 4 star up to this point as a self read.