Penance, AJ Sikes
Penance, AJ Sikes
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Penance
An Extinction Cycle Story

Author: AJ Sikes

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/19/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

There is no escaping the evil lurking in the shadows …After the harrowing trials of Emergence, Jed Welch finds himself alone in the ruins of New York City. But not all is lost.USMC Staff Sergeant Alexandra Gallegos and the two surviving members of her platoon find Jed, and together they will bring the full weight of their Marine Corps training, and mission-driven sense of vengeance, to bear upon the real monsters: human collaborators who aid the Variants at the expense of their fellow human beings.For SSGT Gallegos, theirs is a mission borne of duty and command. For Jed, it becomes an act of penance, in hopes he may atone for his sins.

About AJ Sikes

AJ Sikes is a freelance editor and independent author, an occasional cosplayer, and a hobbyist woodworker. If he’s not at his desk, he’s probably trying to keep up with his twins or make sure his cats aren’t plotting world domination (again).

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claude's on November 28, 2020

Book 17 in my Zombie-a-thon! CW: Extreme gore Look, this wasn't a bad book but I really struggled to stay interested. I mean there was a talking zombie collaborating with some dastardly humans. I don't know, it just felt a bit silly. Zombies are considerably less fearsome when they are talking like Ta......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on March 10, 2019

My prediction of what might happen in this book was blown away by what actually happened. Things you should know: This is the second book in the Redemption Trilogy which is part of the Extinction Cycle 'universe'. If you prefer to read in chronological order, I recommend reading this after book 2 of......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 27, 2019

Loving this trilogy Jed was a character I never really got to know in Extinction Cycle. He seemed like a great guy, then not so much, then I just wasn’t really sure. This book gave me a great look into this flawed man. One thing I’ve loved about the Extinction Cycle world is the characters aren’t per......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 04, 2019

Jed becomes all that he can be - a true Marine, for life. Still messed up over the loss of Meg, Jed meets up with a diminished Marine squad and relearns the basics of his craft. Sgt. Gallegos and her two surviving marines, now boistered by Jed's inclusion, fight the collaborators led by Tucker. In. T......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 16, 2023

I just finished listen to Emergency and have thus invested in both Jake and Meg's different stories and character perspectives. So I started book 2, Penance, only to find the author has dropped Meg into a sewer system to be devoured by Afflicted! What...…? For the rest of the story I gather she only......more

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