Steve DeWinter

Fugue: The Cure

Series: Fugue Colonies, Volume 1 Book 1

By, Steve DeWinter, S.D. Stuart

Format Read: Audiobook Approx 42 minutes

Narrated By, Meghan Kelly

How Obtained: Freebie from AudiobookBoom.com

Released in 2014 I don't think that the author knew that this would become closer to a premonition of future life as opposed to a science fiction work.

This is a very quick listen at 42 minutes long, I was able to get through it a couple of times while at work. Don't let the short run time stop you from reading this book. There is so much going on within such a small run time that listening to it two or three times I can highly recommend.

There's a bit of a dystopian world that is overrun with... You guessed it, a deadly virus. As it is short I'm not going to give away too many spoilers and that is probably about the only one I'm going to give away.

I found a very easy to listen to as the narrator Megyn Kelly did a very good job at reading through everything and keeping you interested throughout the whole book. She spoke very clear and I was able to do different voices decently so you can differentiate between the characters easily.

I did find this book to be very interesting and sets up a intense world that I do want to read more of but I hope it doesn't hit as close to home as I get further into it, because I'm sure like many other people, I am tired of what is currently going on in this world due to a virus.

I definitely want to go through the next books in the series and I hope that the world gets more fleshed-out and we can explore more of this story and characters.

In My Opinion, this is a great way to spend 42 minutes of your time either while doing dishes or whatever, you should pick this up and read it. Very worst case scenario, you are out 42 minutes of listening time. But I think you will enjoy it and want to read more.

I give this book 4 bloody noses out of 5.… (plus d'informations)

My full The Wizard of OZ: A Steampunk Adventure audiobook review can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.

Now to the cover. I do like how I can see many of the familiar characters that I would expect in an imaginative retelling. Including what I would from a steampunk tale. I also see a gun, making me think that this will be much more adult and action packed. I really hope that this will be similar enough for my mind to comprehend Wizard of Oz storyline while being a great stand alone tale.

The first scene, even though I didn't understand why it was important, setup everything quite well. 10 year old Dorothy is a witness to her fathers kidnapping, and her mothers murder. 7 years later she get proof that her father is still alive and is in Oz and so the real adventure begins.

I really enjoyed the fact that Oz isn't some magical far of place that only a couple of people know about. Instead it is a prison, yea a giant jail, Australis Penal Colony, referred to the world over as the Outcast Zone (or Oz). I didn't even put together that this was Australia until about half way through.

Full of great action and intrigue. Even though Dorothy was really hard to like and understand, naive, and dense. I enjoyed the other characters and look forward to learning more about them in the future novels. I really enjoyed all of the similarities to the story of yesteryear. But S.D. Stuart did very well at reinventing almost every aspect of what I thought I knew.

Audiobook submitted for review by the author.… (plus d'informations)