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New Year Island

By: Paul Draker
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
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The stakes are high...Ten strangers, recruited by an edgy new reality show and marooned on an abandoned island overrun by wildlife. One dies in a horrible accident. Nine realize they are all past survivors, alive only because they've beaten incredible odds once before. One by one, their hidden secrets are revealed. Eight discover they are trapped. Caught in a game so deadly that the most terrifying experiences of their lives were only its qualifying round, they must now face the greatest danger on the island... each other. And one of them is not who he or she claims. Seven fight to escape. Six try to solve the mystery of who lured them there and why. Five... Four... Will anyone survive New Year Island?

©2013, 2014 Paul Draker (P)2014 Paul Draker Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Medical Modern Detectives Mystery Psychological Science Fiction Suspense Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Scary Technology Survival Exciting

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Wasn't sure what to expect when I got this book, the idea seemed interesting and thought it could be pretty good. Things started off pretty well and was doing a great job of building the characters, but then things started to go a little of course, some characters just became more and more annoying and unbelievable, the stories conclusion and the final reveal was a bit of a letdown to me. Made it through it all but not very memorable and not sure if I would go for any Paul Draker stuff again. Teri Schnaubelt did do a great job at the narration however.

Good premise but got a little lost along the way

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Great characters, interesting backdrop and a mystery you think you've solved early on, but you're not even close. I really enjoyed this novel and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good mystery or is interested in human behaviour.

Intriguing mystery

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Where to start, annoying implausible characters with their utterly average "extraordinary" back stories? (she's a survivor because she once broke her thumb - "totz omg!" as I believe the youth say today) Or the plot holes and continuity errors? Or the annoying, implausible characters?

I know, I'll start with the eyes. And the bluffs. Dear god, before this book I suspect I'd heard the word "bluffs" about 5 times in my life. I'm pretty sure I'm currently running at a couple of dozen times per chapter. Per character. Of which there are about 13.

To get an accurate idea of the content please use the following basic paragraph planner:

(Character A) stands (geographic reference ie; above the, below the, next to the, in the shadow of the) bluffs, their (inset adjective and colour ie tungsten grey) eyes (insert authorial verb ie flashing, glowering, sparking) at (insert character B) as they stand (insert geographic reference) the bluffs with their (insert adjective and colour) eyes (insert verb and direction ie "cast downwards". Character A, who has no prior knowledge of character B will then voice why this hitherto stranger has (angered, disappointed, betrayed etc) them despite the fact they owe each other nothing.


For example:

"Camilla stood on the edge of the bluffs, her emerald eyes flashing in anger as she stared at JT who stood in the shadow of the bluffs gazing towards the horizon visible above with his languid caramel eyes. Camilla was furious that JT, who she had met 30 seconds earlier whilst walking along the bluffs, hadn't realised the depth of the trauma she had been caused after receiving a parking ticket 9 years earlier."

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It's a book so terribly written it drives me to incoherence, the basic plot of a Survivor snuff series being interesting enough to keep you sucked in but everything else conspiring to make you launch the cd out of the window.

On the plus side the narrator does a great job!

Possibly the worst audiobook I've ever bought...

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