Interesting take on a busy genre

What did you like most about 10:37?

I enjoyed the new angle on the busy genre, the Narrator really brought the characters to life and made them likable or not depending on the story. There were also interesting relationships between the survivors.

What did you like best about this story?

The narration was excellent, it really brought the story together and the characters to life.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, it had a gripping story line - i listened to this book in just two sittings, sadly the ending was a slight disappointment.

Any additional comments?

I would like to see this story extended to a series. I was asked to publish an honest review in exchange for a free review copy of this audio book.

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Just ok

10:37 is an intriguing read at the start. It begins right in the action creating countless questions. The problem for me was that very few of these questions are properly answered to any extent. Further the "Trancers" had alot of potential for interesting plot development but the just became pseudo-zombies which felt cheap.

Secondly I found the characters acted like carboard cutouts that only really acted to move the plot forward which made them hard to relate to and feel empathy for.

There is definitely a good story underneath these problems that could potentially be fixed with a good editor or redrafts.

Kyle Tait (The Narrator) did a pretty good job of delivering this story however in places the delivery felt very monotonic.

Overall a just ok listen.

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Call me Mr.Heston.

Eight years old Dawson is a bit of a dreamer, sometimes bullied and often in trouble at school. So when he wakes up and sees his classmates with their heads on their desks, he thinks that they were playing another trick on him, mimicking the way he had been sleeping. They weren't: they were all dead. And so was everyone else in his school and, when he finally ventured there, outside, too.
In another part of town, country music star, Judd, was reluctantly taking part in a publicity video, high up on a semi built construction site. Afraid of heights, he watched as first his best friend and manager then others fall the several stories to their deaths.
Suddenly everyone, it seemed, was choking and dying, car crashes and dead bodies everywhere with only a tiny handful of survivors. And then came the rain.

This very atmospheric apocalyptic story by Jacqueline Druga is different from any other of it's type. The characterisation of the half a dozen surviving humans we meet is superb: like them or not, each becomes a very real, three dimensional person - a cop, an embittered risk assessor, Dawson and Judd, a priest and a nun - even, briefly, the voice of someone in Australia. And then there is the person they call Tyre Man...

Narrated by Kyle Tait, the pace is gentle, perfect for the action, clearly read with good intonation, understanding a voicings for all of the characters. His interpretation is excellent, book and reader in complete harmony. Tension reverberates from start to finish.

Ms.Druga is a very talented author. I had read only one other of her books before, What Tomorrow Brings, another compelling mystery, and, after reading 10.37, fully intend to look out for more of her books. I was fortunate in requesting, and being given without any expectations from me, a complimentary copy of this story,, by the rights holder, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoyed it all, from the dramatic beginning, through unusual storyline to completion, the skilfully drawn characters and the excellent narration. And this is a book complete in itself.
Highly recommended.

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I like this audio book 5 out of 5 I like all her work 😊

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Sleep awake among the dead

This audible books to me this was the saddest not because of what happen to people but to the characters who survived. The battles, finding love ones dead or watching love ones die in front of you and you can not do anything to save them. After the event there is two type of people one who survived intacted and ones who survived but mentally handicapped only living on natural instinct they looked and acted zombies but they were not they never died or came back to life but one or hundreds of these people lived and breath as one and one minute decile the next mass murders who are wild animals.
All the characters are just regular people or gifted in someway they either hear where they need to flee to or they are people who dreams of this place and a person name Bill in Branson, MO and survivors can get there there is hope to survive and rebuild. The world is being reshaped by mother nature after men tampered with seeding the clouds one time to many and her plan is total destruction and rebuilding the face of the planet with earthquakes, tidal waves, sink holes and super land hurricanes. The survivors not only had survive the virus, the other beings who had turned into mindless humans but now they must figure away to survive mother nature and her wrath. The story is one of happenest, saddest, surviving, building trust with people you do not know but you have to so everyone can survive.
The characters range from a priest, a nun, a western singer, a sheriff, and a women with a grug against the world and all thru the story does not but cause trouble and then you have the youngest member a eight year old boy who is the one who lost the mom, dad and woke up in school with everyone dead.
I would say this a story of mankind getting a second chance but they must be willing to fight and die to help others to survive also a story of mankind having to be learn to live without items they were use to like computers, cellphones and all the comfort of life basically they went back to the dark ages and started all over and doing this will mankind make the same mistakes as before the fall of man.
I highly recommend this audiobook you will not be able to set it down,

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Great narration

I really enjoyed this book, the storyline and narration were well done, I look
Forward to reading more from this author and to carry on the story

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Very enjoyable

This book was very good, it could easily be made into a series, which I personally prefer. Taking just 6 hours over an apocalypse just seems a bit wrong. The narration was very good also.

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Another good book by Jacqueline

Another good book by a very good author and I can not wait to read another one by her.

Great story very good setting and charters twists and turns well worth the time listerning

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not for me I’m afraid.

I've loved a couple of this authors books and jumped at the chance to give this one a good going over... it was just ok for me I’m afraid. mot my type of storyline. Others may devour it but I could not get into it at all.

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