Impact Winter
Ratings39
Average rating3.7
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Ratings39
Average rating3.7
“They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting.”
From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun. The world is a dark, frozen landscape. And then, beastly creatures emerge and take over. Can they really be vampires?
In the British countryside, a band of survivors forms a resistance in the fallout shelter of a medieval castle. Darcy is a battle-tested vampire hunter who is at the front line leading the charge to save humanity. Meanwhile, her younger sister Hope wants life to return normal so she can go above ground and know what it’s like to live again. And she just might be willing to risk it all.
A story of apocalypse, horror, and adventure, Impact Winter is a wholly original new saga created just for Audible with immersive 3D audio that dares you to pop in your earbuds and listen in the dark. Venture into an eternally sunless world of swords and crossbows; primal hunters and shape-shifters; leaders and lovers. Hear how a brave few fight to survive the impact winter.
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Fun! Perfect casting and acting. The story is quick with meaningful character arcs and a fully realized world. I'm not normally a fan of vampire stories but this sucked me in from the start. Excellent sound production, too.
This was much better than I expected. I have listened to a few of these audible originals and not been impressed. I am actually interested in listening to future “winter” stories if they are written. Give this one a chance.
I wanted to give this a go because it said it was attached to producers from The Walking Dead (including Robert Kirkman).
A comet hits earth, clouding the atmosphere and making the sunlight disappear, which leads to the open emergence of vampires? I said yes, I could get behind that. And it has these really cool kinds of vampires too: there are mindless zombie-eating type vampires (kind of reminded me of I am Legend (the movie)), then shades which are like your run-of-the-mill vampires, then there are overlords which have gifted powers, and then there's of course a vampire queen. Plus there's a badass female vampire Hunter with a sword? Felt like a post apocalyptic Underworld.
The problem I personally had with this one is that it is an audio performance, not an audio narration. I'm guessing I could have easily found that out if I did even the simplest research, so that's on me. However, I have stated several times in the past now that they just aren't for me. The performances were fantastic, so it's not that I have anything against it, it's just to the point where it's more of a play, or like listening to a movie without seeing it, than reading.
The production is filled with noises—scuttling feet, fighting, heavy breathing, background noise—sometimes to the literal detriment of the audio levels. And because it's filled with those noises, there's next to no description within the story. If you're not fired up to use your imagination the entire time, this probably isn't the one for you. It was not easy to listen to while going about my day.
My biggest gripe though was that in between the chapters there would be music. Some of which was so bad that I actually considered stopping the entire thing, and it's only 4.5 hours long. I hate music in audiobooks.
Great concept, iffy execution. I don't think at this point I'll continue with the teased sequel.
Finally got around to reading an audio drama. I understand why there is demand for these types of audiobooks for the past decade, but I still prefer your standard narration without all the shiny bits and soundy noises. Perhaps it's because I have misophonia and unnatural sounds are too much for me, or maybe I'm just boring.
The premise of Impact Winter is promising, although the writing is unfortunately not. The character arcs didn't seem believable to me and made them rather bland. One takeaway from all this is the casting. These voice actors are excellent, including the kickass Liam Cunningham and Bella Ramsey.
Side Note: I was completely surprised when they played a Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield song in the mix. Not only is Seth my favorite musician, but absolutely underrated.
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Audio read by: full cast, including - Holliday Grainger, Esmé Creed-Miles, Himesh Patel and Liam Cunningham
Featured Series
3 primary books5 released booksImpact Winter is a 5-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2022 with contributions by Travis Beacham.
