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Prophet
- Narrated by: Jake Fairbrother, Ryan Forde Iosco, Charlotte Davey
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh thriller from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction
Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon.
THIS IS PROPHET.
It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?
An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic flight of fancy. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past.
And the deaths quickly follow.
Something is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. This is a weapon like no other. But nobody knows who created it, or why.
Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear.
For Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future.
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Critic reviews
"It's a fabulous book!... It's present day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel with real people you can care about." (Neil Gaiman)
"Prophet promises to bring back everything you lost and now yearn for... Proper science fiction - self-aware, funny, ruthlessly propulsive, full of invention... I loved it." (M. John Harrison, author of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again)
"Prophet is a wildly fun, inventive, funny, and terrifying book, with a superb mystery that gets ever more compelling and weird and, horrifyingly, familiar. This book finds the nightmare in the comforting lies we tell ourselves about our pasts, and how they inform our present." (Phil Klay, author of Missionaries)
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- mary
- 16-09-23
Patchy narration
Like the other reviews I agree the narration was distracting with the odd pronunciation. The story lost my attention in the middle - could have done with better editing.
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- kirsty
- 02-10-23
Love story 🤦🏻♀️
It turned out to be a romance not a sci fi. Could have ditched the entire romantic angle and concentrated on the good ideas that are in there.
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- Ms. S. H. Pether
- 31-08-23
entertaining but frustrating
really enjoyed the story but it was a slightly frustrating listen. The main narrator is pretty good at acting out the characters (all three are actually, and there are some skilled accents) but there are so many oddly pronounced words it becomes really distracting. like the other reviewer I started making a mental list - Recooord' player for a record player?? AmalgAMM for Amalgam, redOHWlent for redolent? why didn't these get edited out?
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- Pinkystan
- 31-08-23
Enthralling plot, terribly narrated.
I adored the story - it's unlike anything I've ever read before and yet also felt familiar to a degree, but that might be because I love the X Files. So yes, cracking story. But the narrator who did Rao's elements was terrible. So many words mispronounced. It got on my nerves so much I made a list of them as I went along. and there was hardly any intonation - just a monotonous droning with really bad switching of accents and voices. If the story had been any less brilliant I'd have given up.
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- Duffo
- 28-09-23
Disappointing
Despite the excellent newspaper reviews of this book that I've seen, I found the story slow moving. Far too much irrelevant background information, too many unexplained abbreviations, and some odd pronunciations by one of the narrators. Some disturbing images at times which I thought were very good, but ultimately the end of the story was a disappointment.
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