Dawn of the Void
by Phil Tucker
Narrator
Tom Taylorson
Duration
16h
Series
1 / 3
Released
2023
About This Audiobook
James Kelly is a homeless widower and ex-EMT in Brooklyn when he starts leveling — days before the rest of the world learns that demons are real and the countdown to extinction has started. A survival video he records goes viral, and suddenly the guy sleeping rough is the reluctant face of humanity's resistance. Dawn of the Void is Phil Tucker doing apocalypse with the brakes cut: billions die, on the page, and the Nemesis waves keep escalating against an enemy that plays like a chess grandmaster rather than a mindless horde. What keeps it out of misery-porn territory is the character-first writing — James is a good man in an unraveling world, and hope keeps surfacing in the wreckage. Reviewers report inhaling 600 pages in a weekend, and the trilogy is complete, so there's no cliffhanger risk. Too grim for some listeners; that's fair. Tom Taylorson handles a big dynamic cast with distinct voices. 4.6 from a criminally small 584 ratings — this one's underexposed.
