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Darren Wearmouth (Author), Colin F. Barnes (Author), Luke Daniels (Narrator),

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Some mysteries should stay buried. A centuries-old plan unfolds.

Archaeologists Pippa Quinn and Charlie Jackson find advanced technology in undisturbed 16th-century graves. A portent, the discovery precedes thousands of giant sinkholes opening up across the globe as extreme weather threatens the population. Charlie suspects the two are related.

Pippa, Charlie, and the rest of humanity will have to fight for survival, sacrificing the life they've known to protect Earth from an ancient and previously dormant enemy. Even that might not be enough, as this new enemy exacts a plan that will change the course of humankind forever.

Critical Dawn is an apocalyptic ride to the very edge of human existence. Factions will battle for control of the Earth - if they can avoid the threat of extinction.

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10 hours and 21 minutes
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Darren Wearmouth, see all
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Luke Daniels
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July 17, 2015
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English
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B00VTPEJ0C
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Listening Length	10 hours and 21 minutes
Author	Darren Wearmouth, Colin F. Barnes
Narrator	Luke Daniels
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	July 17, 2015
Publisher	Podium Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00VTPEJ0C
Best Sellers Rank	#247,548 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #3,249 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #4,690 in Adventure Science Fiction #11,169 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books)

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David

Fast moving adventure set against an alien attempt to dominate the Earth

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on June 13, 2014

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Review Critical Dawn
This was an action novel which kept me continuously interested. There was never a dull moment. I read for entertainment and this certainly satisfied me. I enjoy science fiction, especially new concepts and themes. The SF aspects were ok; the fast-moving story made up for what I felt was a little lacking here. More could have been done exploring and developing personalities, alien as well as human.
I was left thinking about issues I felt could have been dealt with better.
1. I guess Augustus told the post ice-age humans the aliens were called Croatoans since he spoke their language, but how did the Roanoke people know their name?
2. Why were the Roanoke Islanders implanted with beads? There were only a few of them and the Croatoans there went underground because the Earth was not at a suitable stage for reforming then.
3. How did this situation change in such a short time – a few hundred years? The geology of the Earth does not change that fast.
4. When the aliens bored the thirty foot wide, deep hole in Roanoke Is, where did the huge amount of soil go? There was no mention of huge piles of earth in the area.
5. Was it just coincidence that the emergence of the Croatoans at Roanoke coincided with Charlie and Pipa’s dig?
6. Since human gestation takes nine months, only a single offspring is produced and reproduction occurs only after they are more than say 13 years old, using them as a food source seems inefficient if not implausible. What percentage of the food supply did they represent? Would this generation rate help much in feeding the humans with enough left over to feed a large number of aliens? Were the aliens carnivores? Why not just forget about humans and just use more efficient sources: cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits. Using the humans as food seemed contrived.
7. The amount of land area devoted to growing the special root seemed too large.
8. In an environment involving acceleration, deceleration and turns, pushing the handlebars forward or back is not a viable control option for the hover bikes. It would at least need the rider to be strapped firmly to the back of a seat.
9. Gravitation control assisted vertical movement, but how did they overcome inertia when stopping, reverse thrust jet engines?
10. Vapour trails are a high level atmospheric phenomenon and would not be seen when travelling at low heights.
11. Presumably the hover bikes were developed on worlds where they did not need air breathing apparatus and therefore the associated face masks, so why weren’t the riders and passengers better protected from airborne particles or flying insects etc. The bikes could easily have been encapsulated or have suitable front-end fairings.
12. Their computers seemed mundane even by today’s standards. E.g., why didn’t the bike riders have virtual projected screens viewed via their visors instead of tablets? No 3d holographic displays. Voice control? Thought control? No small, portable visual personal communications devices. Why weren’t the computers protected from strong magnetic fields?
13. I liked the hunter Baliska’s novel means of avoiding bullets, resulting in a blurring of his image. Great concept.
14. I think, given the great superiority of the alien science, there could have been more examples of extraordinary capabilities and new concepts.
15. In this vein, the descriptions of the equipment failure sequence in the ship/harvester were tame – red, green, white LEDs. Some technical details there would have been better.
16. The numerous starship’s crew members over many years apparently never once thought of making a simple compass or a Foucault pendulum, or wondering how the 1 g gravitational field was achieved, any one of which would have told them they were still on Earth. Someone suspecting things were not as they were led to believe would have satisfied me.
17. The roughly two decades needed for ship crew members to grow up in an environment where they did not know what was happening in most of the world was not explained clearly enough.
18. I did not understand why the breeding lab was to be pressurised just before the atmosphere was about to be made unsuitable for humans, resulting in their annihilation?
19. Where did the aliens expect to get their meat from after air breathing fauna were killed off by the new atmosphere?
20. The highly intelligent bomb makers, after five years of work, left the deployment of the bomb largely to chance, which fortuitously came about.
21. I never found out if Denver was really Charlie’s son or if Gregor’s slur was correct.
Only found a few typos – well checked manuscript.
“span” used instead of “spun” page 132
“though” used instead of “through” locn 1369
“thought it” not “ thought he” page 104

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Jas P

A bit weak in areas, confusing start – but overall similar feel to Falling Skies – Decent Sci-Fi Escapism

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on April 6, 2016

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I was very confused when I started reading this. From the information on the book, I was expecting a story about Pippa and Charlie investigating strange happening around the world, that possibly lead to Alien Invasion (given the title of the book etc) However, the story started very strangely. It started with a chapter on Charlie, and a chapter on a group in, what we think, is a future ship. This was confusing to begin with, and I was wondering if the book (I was reading the e-book) had been downloaded incorrectly. But I stuck with it, and it eventually came together, sort of?
There were other strange things, Pippa was barely in the book, there was basically no archaeology at all (kind of alluded to in the summary. The summary gave a very different impression to what was going to occur.
However, having said that – it is worth sticking with the book. This is a cross between Independence Day, Falling Skies and a bit of the Spielberg ‘War of the Worlds’, were the aliens were buried below the Earth.
The dialogue is a bit weak at times, thus the reference to Independence Day. There is the over the top reference to the US saving the World or being the only main country in the World (Something like ‘Charlie Jackson, the last true American and Saviour of the World’ was one of the lines – hard to swallow at times).
The story had some other issues, the concept about where the aliens originally came from is a bit far-fetched, and some of the other dialogue and plot points in the book are a bit weak in points as well.
It did make me wonder at times whether it was worth continuing with the story, but I stuck with it. For me, the story has a similar feel to it like Falling Skies (the TV series for those that are familiar with it), which also had some weak points, but managed to give us a fairly decent bit of sci-fi escapism over 5 seasons.
And that’s what the first part of the Critical Series does – gives us a pretty decent go of a Sci-Fi series, and a fun bit of escapism. It is worth the read, even given the weak points.
It does have its strengths, some of the characters are great – Gregor is particularly amusing as the quasi bad guy, and the downright stupidity of some of the other bad guys is pretty funny.
I will be reading part 2 (I have to find out what happens!!) but hopefully the writing style does improve a bit.
Overall all if you are a fan of things like Falling Skies, or Independence Day, things were aliens have already invaded the Earth and this is the fight to against them, then this is for you, just don't expect too much from it.

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Intense.

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on June 29, 2014

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Most intense reading here . Highly addictive and hard to put down even when you know you should be sleeping.

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Danny

Good but bad

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 12, 2019

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Pretty standard fare: Evil alien invasion resisted by valiant, outnumbered, under-resourced humans. It was actually an all right read it a bit unpolished in the prose.

But it was also painful.

The amount of errors in this book made it difficult to read. Words missing from sentences, incorrect words used, words out of context. He even had contradictory statements along with total head scratchers. Perhaps it was a poor conversion utility but it doesn't take much to proofread a book.

I had started to report the errors in the book and eventually gave up as I started to feel like a free proofreading service.

All that aside, it was entertaining if utterly predictable and I would happily say give it a go if you need some light reading before bed.

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ChrisG

A great book (and series) that I really enjoyed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 25, 2015

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Bought this on a kindle offer for my holidays, really enjoyed it and ended up buying the whole series of 3 books and loved them too. I grew up reading science fiction but haven't read any for a while and was happy that the book I chose turned out to be good. I passed it on to my wife to read who doesn't normally read sci-fi and she has enjoyed all 3 books too!

The writing is quite direct and to the point - and I don't mean that in a derogatory way as it matches the personality of the main characters and the necessity of the life they have found themselves having to survive in, and also helps to make the book a real page turner. Both my wife and I found it quite thought provoking as well, especially with regards to how humans treated each other and how we'd react in a similar situation (whilst hoping it never happens!).

A good book to read anytime and a great holiday read. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole series.

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