Just Vic

By: Gerald Burke

Narrated by: Daniel Schaal

Vic follows a simple code of life—when stuck between certain death and certain death, always chose a third option.

Ready to renounce his criminal ways, Vic needs to pull one last heist—transporting a rare and valuable albino friklar across a short section of space without detection. Easy money.

However, when the animal escapes on a primitive planet called Earth, Vic must either settle accounts with his boss—ruthless Axle Prim—or endure his wrath.

With a careful mix of charm, guile and old-fashioned skullduggery, Vic lures a hapless postal worker into a scheme that includes an edible form of dark matter, a half-mad spaceship, and a machine capable of verifying the existence of the soul. As the tangles unweave, Vic’s plan will either cost them both their lives or gain Vic everything he’s ever wanted.

If all goes well, he might just save the cat too....

A space adventure that is equal parts satire, Just Vic will have you in LOL induced stitches the whole way through.

©2024 Gerald Burke Smith (P)2024 Gerald Burke Smith

Amazing book with incredible narration

Absolutely loved the book! Kept me entertained the entire time. The narrator deserves 10 stars for that performance. So many different voices for all the different characters. Did an amazing job of bringing the book to life!

amazing. so much fun!

such a fun story line! easy going fun and exciting turns. can't wait for the second!

the narrator blew me away! all his different voices helped paint a clear picture in my head on each character. He got me to laugh several times! amazing job

Between a certain great book, and a certain geart narrator, always choose the third option... BOTH!!!! haha

Coen Brothers in space

The book follows the misadventures of reluctant cohorts as they "quantum stumble" their way across the galaxy. They encounter one quirky character after another and the situations they find themselves in are alien (literally) but all too familiar.

The writing is tight and the dialogue is snappy. It reads like a fully developed Coen Brothers screenplay... if they did sci-fi.

The performance is as good or better than any I've heard on Audible. There are so many different characters in the book and the narrator does an excellent job of giving them each their own personality so it's always clear who is speaking, even in group conversations.

Highly recommend

Life out there

I found this book interesting. The storyline was pretty cool, following a trio as they make their way through obstacles. It was cool to listen to a different interpretation of life outside of Earth in feel so many books about extraterrestrial life are straight forward and boring and predictable, but this one had a certain aspect to it that made me question things. Why did the character make that decision? What would I have done if I were a certain character? My only critique, and really this is a personal issue was the pace of the narrator. I found myself having to change the speed to a slower pace so I could actually hear and absorb all the words.

The story came to life!!

One of my favorite things about this book was the detail to the character’s personalities and voices. I don’t think they could have been voiced more perfectly! The story itself was amazing and every time I had to find a stopping place all I thought about was getting back to the book! Any review you could list for this book will be 5 stars from me!