
Myriad
Author: Joshua David Bellin
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/23/2023
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Author: Joshua David Bellin
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/23/2023
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure
Joshua David Bellin is a college teacher by day, and has published numerous works of fantasy and science fiction, including the two-part Survival Colony series, the deep-space adventure Freefall, and the Ecosystem series. In his free time, Josh likes to read, watch movies, and take long nature hikes with his kids. Oh, yeah, and he likes monsters. Really scary monsters.
Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology.
A LOT of novel Once when I was a postdoc at MIT, I heard physicist Alan Guth speak in the Physics Colloquium. Guth was known for having invented the idea of Cosmic Inflation, that the universe exploded in size just BEFORE the Big Bang, setting the initial conditions for the Big Bang. (Versions of thi......more
Timecop has so much to answer for. Myriad has an intriguing premise, our heroine Miriam Randle is literally a Time Cop, she travels back in time to stop murders from happening, but as close to the event as possible so the perp can still be charged. These time jaunts are usually within days of the cr......more
Excerpt from my review - originally published at Offbeat YA. Pros: Mind-blowing variation on the time-travel trope, full of twists and turns - but also heart. Well-crafted, compelling main character. Cons: At least one of the protagonist's actions is based on a leap of logic. At least one of the rule......more
4.5* feel like I need to do my own TW: this book opens with a scene of a school shooting. And there is of course talk of it through the story. I will admit, that was hard for me to open on. But once I got past those feelings, I was completely immersed in this story. Miriam simply cannot get past the lo......more
I enjoyed this fast-paced novel and did not expect the many twists and turns it took. It had all the things I love about time travel novels, including sending me down philosophical rabbit holes. The premise of time travel mechanics Bellin employs is one I haven't come across before. It was quite ori......more
“Bellin weaves a spellbinding mystery with this timetravel, detective noir." Booklist