Eventide, Water City

Water City, Book 2

By: Chris McKinney

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

The sequel to Midnight, Water City explores technology, class, climate change, and the lengths people will go to protect those they love.

Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City’s renowned scientist and anointed “God,” the nameless antihero who tracked down Akira’s killer, is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the city’s police department, he raises his now nine-year-old daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter.

His domestic bliss is threatened when Ascalon’s Scar—the mark left by Akira’s destruction of Sessho-seki, the asteroid that nearly wiped out life on Earth—vanishes from the sky and a familiar face thought dead returns from the ocean depths to exact revenge on humanity. On a journey to the moon and back, Water City’s antihero will risk everything, including his family, to save the last of the human race—even if it means unraveling the dark conspiracy at the heart of their world.

©2023 Chris McKinney (P)2023 Recorded Books

Chap 3...

The story is pretty good so far.


I see that
But the narrator has a weird subvocalize sounding voice. Like he's whispering or is trying to talk in a lower register than he is able.
He has good cadence and what not.
But I struggle to understand him even if I turn it up and or adjust the speed.

I see that the next book has something to do with zombies? ! eye roll .... Will probably give that one a miss. I did not pre-order it.

Clearly prophetic

Definitely a thin allegory for exactly what is unfolding in our time in terms of values and consciousness.

The plot is a little bit thin. It is sometimes a bit hard to follow as the book lapses into dreamlike fugues in the past or the future.

nothing

ragged boring story that never engaged. over Americanized naration. Had to finally give up.