Brightness Falls

By: Vaughn Ashby

Narrated by: Joseph P Vernon

Brightness Falls isn't just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it's also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates.

By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug. Who loves Andrew’s work, but escaped The Other Side to warn Andrew of a self-proclaimed god with desires to return to Brightness Falls.

Wow, that is a lot to take in. That above paragraph is jammed packed with a lot of crap. Thou the oral sex accident sounds interesting, doesn't it? Let's take the whole thing down a notch. Let's try it again, please...

With the town’s annual festival, Brightfest, which commemorates the deadly day it's population collectively walked to the bottom of the lake, only days away, and the threat of an inadvertently bloodthirsty, self-proclaimed god returning to reenact the event, Andrew is sent scrambling to save his sister, friends, lovers, and the town he’s loathed in, before the god is able to complete his predestined experiment to bringing his wife back. If Andrew can get out of his own way to unravel the towns dark secrets, as well as his own, maybe he’ll come out of it with a new TV show idea. Oh and save the town.

Well f--k, that wasn't much better. Still, a lot going on in that paragraph, too. Here let me try...

This is the story of a man who loves women, hates his home town, and has to goes through a shit tone of shit for both of them. Oh and someone dies during oral sex, can't leave that out.

Boom nailed it! Best book description ever - Your Mom

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Bad narrator

I liked the storyline,the only reason the story gets this type of rating is because of the narration. The narrator is monotone. I had a hard time listening to him, I actually fell asleep a few times.

A Fun Mind Trip

Title: Brightness Falls
Author: Vaughn Ashby
Format: Audio
Narrator: Joseph P Vernon
Genre: Horror, Dark Comedy, SciFi, Time-Travel
Standalone: Yes
Part of a Series: Part of the Aurora Westeland
POV: Multiple
Steam Level: I wouldn't say it was sexy, but they're a bit of sexual content (I mean, hello, read the book description)
4.5/5

I listened to this audiobook the way I listen to all my audiobooks - while doing other things. This is not a book to do that with. It took me a little bit to get into it but once I did it was complete mind f**k.. This book definitely deserves either your full attention or a reread. Taking place across time, multiple stories intersect and weave together in unexpected ways.

Favorite Quote: If you want to save the town alone, you better chain me to a better oven.

I received this audiobook for free from StoryOrigin. This is my honest a voluntary review.

Time Traveling-Sci-fiy-Darkish Humor done well.

You know those movies that you can't keep track of when it goes back and forth? Yea, well that's not this. Vaugh has a way of keeping you engaged enough that you can keep up with what's going on in each time line.

Interesting characters and an even more interesting plot with ladybugs!! Yo Bro, how did you make my little beautiful bugs the evil bug!!

Great read, give it a try.

Narrator, Joseph Vernon, did a pretty decent job of showing emotion and I love how he did the mom at one point, really felt what she was going through.

I received a copy of the audiobook in exchange for my honest review, and there ya have it.

Excellent

Incredibly entertaining story. I got into it almost immediately. Once that happened it was hard to stop. Found myself sitting in my driveway after getting home from work enthralled in it so much that my wife had to come out and ask me if I was coming in the house for dinner. Well written and narrated. Loved it.

Not my kind of story

I made it about half way through this one & I can't finish it. I don't care for this story at all.