When the Dust Fell, Marshall Ross
When the Dust Fell, Marshall Ross
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When the Dust Fell

Author: Marshall Ross

Narrator: Tara Marie Kirk

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/02/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Sarah Long is looking for peace in a broken world. The fact that she helped break it, is only the start of her problems.

When Sarah Long gets the message that her sister is alive and needs rescuing, she packs a bag with survival gear, loads a coat with six kinds of weapons, and hopes her pregnancy won't slow her down.

It's been three years since the ancient, city-sized ship was discovered. And three years since it turned half the planet into deserts of black dust.

Sarah's treacherous journey will cross continents and an ocean, as well as the lines between Earther and Alien, friend and foe. The dangers, though, go beyond the brutal reality of the lawless world she travels.

For the last three years the mysterious ship has been Sarah's home. And she knows its powers.

And there are those who will do absolutely anything to get them.

About Marshall Ross

Marshall Ross is bald and allergic to everything that tastes good. That ought to say it all. But just in case:

He's the chief creative officer of Cramer-Krasselt and was central to the team that grew C-K into the second largest independent ad agency in the country, garnering hundreds of major industry awards along the way.

In a life before C-K, Marshall had the thoroughly naive idea of starting a creative boutique. Miraculously, Mitchiner, Ross & Kahn managed a successful six-year run in Chicago before being acquired in 1992 by Campbell Mithun Esty, where Marshall assumed the post of executive creative director.

His most memorable work includes the beach world of Corona Beer, the CareerBuilder monkeys, and the creative expression of the Porsche brand.

He's also the author of the award-winning serialized novel Lost Arrow, and is currently at work on his next. In When the Dust Fell, Ross has created in Sarah a hero who seems perfectly suited for the moment, though she never seems to know it. And that makes her someone we can't help but cheer on.

Apart from writing, his other interests include the rearrangement of furniture and germ avoidance.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bandit on April 26, 2022

I’m the first to rate and review this book. Wish I liked it more. But let’s go with the best policy on this. When the Dust Fell is one of those perfect examples of a book I should have by all right loved and didn’t. It checks so many boxes: dystopia, sci-fi, survivor story. The entire thing is essent......more

Goodreads review by Marie Cristina on July 13, 2022

If you’re looking to read about a dystopian post-apocalyptic world, with the disaster having been brought on by aliens, should you try this book? “When the Dust Fell” by Marshall Ross surprised me in many ways – not all of them good. I was enthusiastic about the book, especially because in the first......more

Goodreads review by Sofia on June 06, 2022

Hmm this is a very difficult book to rate, because there’s nothing wrong with the way it is written but I feel that many things are missing and others kind of drag, actually this book feels like a continuation, like a second volume or something, because, I wanted to know how the world come to an end......more

Goodreads review by Kim on July 26, 2022

I got this audiobook from netgalley in exchange for my honest review. My problem I think was the narrator. She drove me bananas, she paused every 2-3 words even when there wasn't a need for a pause. I tried to speed it up but it wasn't good. You could hear her breathing into the microphone the ph ph......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on August 02, 2022

This review is of the audiobook only. I could not get all the way through this one for one reason: The narration is not good. The narrator is very monotone, so much so that I could not follow her. When she tried different voices for different characters, they were not done well. The narrator does no......more