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Narrated by:
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Jay Snyder
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By:
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Luke Romyn
About this listen
A former mercenary turned blind priest, Ash is running from his amoral past - a victim of a power-hungry corporation, Titanus, which used him for mysterious experiments, discarding him when he lost his sight.
Through its experimentation, Titanus unwittingly created a dark mirror world called Shade, a place where no human can survive - except for Ash. By opening a rift, Ash can escape into Shade, where his vision is restored, his wounds heal more quickly, and, if necessary, he can drag his attackers in with him, turning them to dust.
While attempting to implement a global teleportation system, Titanus makes a grave error and opens several dangerous rifts, which threaten to tear the planet apart. Believing Ash to be the only one able to close them, Titanus exploits those Ash cares about most to coerce him into cooperating.
But the creatures they have inadvertently released from Shade will be the least of their worries.
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Ash
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fantastic!
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You need to listen to this story
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The character of Ash is made up of every cliche in the book. Hes ex military now in the priest hood, built like a brick shit house ( you are reminded of his stature and strength throughout the 46 odd chapters), talks like a robot/philosopher, has elite tastes but is a man of the people, a heart of gold and innate darkness. He's everything and nothing at the same time. Even in the realms of story telling hes pretty hard to buy.
The characters of colour are borderline stereotypical, the accents cringeworthy. You are reminded of their ethnicity every other sentence, even though names and accents are used. I don't need to be reminded that the Haitian guy is black or ebony every 2 minutes. As far as I can see this doesn't aid the narrative in any way except to "other" the character of colour.
The female characters are dealt with in a lacklustre manner. They are one dimensional at best, play either to the ex bitch wife or innocent love interest role depending on how they're needed. It would have been interesting to get into their backgrounds with the same priority Ash's is. No such luck however.
The whole thing seems like a lost opportunity, this story has the workings of something that could be great but what you actually have is a mish mash of major troupes like other dimensions, super powers, inter dimensional monsters, possession, the Vatican, shady corporations and human science experiments . They all collide together and honestly it feels like whiplash.
Similarly the pace is all over the place. The first half is great but by the middle of the story I was begging for some kind of conclusion. I groaned everytime a new chapter announced itself. its overly long and spends minutes explaining surroundings and identical corridors. it was a marathon to get through this purely because I had to see it to the end but I had no pleasure in doing it.
All in all do I need to know what happens to Ash further down the line...I dont know. Will I probably suffer through another book to find out...maybe. but that might be my own issues!
So much to unpack...
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interesting enough. just
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