New Audiobook Release–The Girl at the End of the World

richardlevesqueauthor March 2, 2015 Audiobooks Post-Apocalypse YA Novels 0

Her Fight Begins the Day the World Ends

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve partnered with narrator LC Kane to produce the audiobook version of my YA Post-Apocalyptic novel, The Girl at the End of the World. As with my earlier experiences using ACX to create an audiobook project, this has been a great experience. LC’s narration really captures Scarlett beautifully, and I feel like a whole new version of the book has opened up in this new rendering of the story.

My good friend and cover artist Mark Walsh was able to take his original cover and render a square version to fit the audiobook format, and it looks great. Thanks, Mark!

Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she’s made the best of her parents’ divorce. But in one way, she’s special: on her fifteenth birthday, a fast-moving plague wipes out everyone she’s ever known, yet somehow it passes her by.

Her family dead, alone in a corpse-strewn metropolis, she has no choice but to survive. She needs food, shelter, a safe place to sleep. She discovers that an ordinary girl is capable of extraordinary things, and that she’s more resilient than she imagined. Even so, she wishes more than anything that she could just find another survivor.

Unfortunately for Scarlett, not everyone who survived the plague is looking for companionship. And she’s about to find out just how difficult survival really is.

Here’s an excerpt of Bryce Anderson’s review of The Girl at the End of the World

“The Girl at the End of the World is good dystopian, with a dark, gritty feel and people pushed to the brink (and beyond) by fear and hardship. The collapse is depicted with the inevitability and violence of rolling storm, leaving silence and death in its wake. You get a real sense of Scarlett’s terror: the lonely nights, the fear that nobody is out there, the fear that somebody is out there. She lives in terror of the known and unknown dangers that lurk outside her door, and that fear is made worse by the fact that there’s not much to do to keep her mind off her worries.

It’s hard to discuss the rest of the book without giving away major spoilers. But it kept me hooked right up to the end. The book is well written, with interesting, complex characters.”