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No Road Out
What Joe’s eyes were telling his brain didn't seem possible. They looked like raptorsaurs right out of a movie screen, three strange creatures with slowly swishing tails. Their beady eyes were staring straight back at him and his two young boys.
… he heard the raptors scuttling about outside, their claws scratching and clicking on the sidewalk next to the garage.
… an alien-looking head popped through the doorway opening – just the head. He saw the steam coming from nostrils back-lit by the dim morning sun.
Something strange had happened to the small sleepy mid-western town of Brown’s Station. After a strange storm passes through, dinosaurs that are supposed to be extinct are suddenly overrunning the town. The town’s mayor was gone the night of the storm and then the sheriff disappears. All roads out of town come to dead ends and all communications to and from the outside world are gone. The town’s people are left wondering what happened. And the dinosaurs are not the only problem that they have to face without any leadership to keep them together.
The townspeople soon discover that a mysterious physics professor stayed in the town the night of the storm. Was he somehow responsible? Since he is in a stupor, unable to respond, the people are left guessing.
Johnny finds himself stranded on a country road outside Brown’s Station. Anne, a young farm girl home alone at night, finds herself trapped with all roads away from her family’s farm coming to a dead end.
Amid all of this, Joe Spechright has an additional problem. His wife is missing, and he is determined to find her.
And that is just the beginning of their problems.
… he heard the raptors scuttling about outside, their claws scratching and clicking on the sidewalk next to the garage.
… an alien-looking head popped through the doorway opening – just the head. He saw the steam coming from nostrils back-lit by the dim morning sun.
Something strange had happened to the small sleepy mid-western town of Brown’s Station. After a strange storm passes through, dinosaurs that are supposed to be extinct are suddenly overrunning the town. The town’s mayor was gone the night of the storm and then the sheriff disappears. All roads out of town come to dead ends and all communications to and from the outside world are gone. The town’s people are left wondering what happened. And the dinosaurs are not the only problem that they have to face without any leadership to keep them together.
The townspeople soon discover that a mysterious physics professor stayed in the town the night of the storm. Was he somehow responsible? Since he is in a stupor, unable to respond, the people are left guessing.
Johnny finds himself stranded on a country road outside Brown’s Station. Anne, a young farm girl home alone at night, finds herself trapped with all roads away from her family’s farm coming to a dead end.
Amid all of this, Joe Spechright has an additional problem. His wife is missing, and he is determined to find her.
And that is just the beginning of their problems.
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Published January 22, 2018
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October 21, 2018
Title: No Road Out (The Displaced, #1)
Author: M. J. Konkel
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Genre: Apocalyptic
Score: 3/5
This novel is a parallel universe fantasy featuring dinosaurs. A storm blows up and an entire town is transported to an alternate dimension. There were some sentence structure problems and awkward prose phrasing, but it was tolerable. The ending seemed like the author got tired of writing or perhaps had a deadline because it wrapped up in about three pages. It was an ok read for serious fans of alternate dimension fiction.
Author: M. J. Konkel
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Genre: Apocalyptic
Score: 3/5
This novel is a parallel universe fantasy featuring dinosaurs. A storm blows up and an entire town is transported to an alternate dimension. There were some sentence structure problems and awkward prose phrasing, but it was tolerable. The ending seemed like the author got tired of writing or perhaps had a deadline because it wrapped up in about three pages. It was an ok read for serious fans of alternate dimension fiction.
October 30, 2018
M.J. Konkel has an interesting writing style and I enjoyed the book but he could look in the phone book for name ideas for his characters. He also (in my opinion) should skip writing out the whole way of speaking for his characters ("I'll vs I will" type of thing) so dialog has a more natural flow. I liked his idea in this book and the beginning was very enjoyable but I got a bit bogged down later in the story.
November 21, 2018
Okay
Doesn't flow very well. Lots of medical mistakes, for example, carbon dioxide drives respiration not oxygen. If you breathed shallower in a high O2 atmosphere your CO2 would build up and you would go into respiratory failure. Dentists use Novocaine, doctors use lidocaine. If you would have broken ribs badly enough to tell in an unconscious person without xrays it would be a serious condition indeed.
Doesn't flow very well. Lots of medical mistakes, for example, carbon dioxide drives respiration not oxygen. If you breathed shallower in a high O2 atmosphere your CO2 would build up and you would go into respiratory failure. Dentists use Novocaine, doctors use lidocaine. If you would have broken ribs badly enough to tell in an unconscious person without xrays it would be a serious condition indeed.
March 30, 2023
I really liked this book. Easy reading. Clever plot twists. Excellent characterizations. I sure wish I had a dog like the one in this yarn. Konkel cleverly used the alternate universe to explain away any problems with the dinosaurs in the story. Of course if the dinosaurs hadn't perished 70 something million years ago there would be a WHOLE lot of changes driven by natural selection. Just consider how many mammal species existed just thousands of years ago that don't exist today. Still, in all a very fun read.
February 16, 2018
Book 1
Except for the ending, the book was good. Lots of Dino action. Just look out for the Freddie's, and you have to read the book. Johnny made a wise decision and the villians isn't always easy to spot. Couple of bad words, but warned by author. Enough to be annoying, but not enough to trash the book. Really interested to see the outcome in book two.
Except for the ending, the book was good. Lots of Dino action. Just look out for the Freddie's, and you have to read the book. Johnny made a wise decision and the villians isn't always easy to spot. Couple of bad words, but warned by author. Enough to be annoying, but not enough to trash the book. Really interested to see the outcome in book two.
June 6, 2018
Thank you for a really fun book. The conversation was a little stilted. But overall a really good book. It made me the happy. At the end everything just came together even though it was also a little bit sad. I got goosebumps from it. Looking forward to more books hopefully with more dinosaurs.
June 18, 2018
Good story
I liked this story. It was entertaining & I learned a few things about dinosaurs. This is an interesting theory about parallel worlds, possible but tough to prove or disprove.
I liked this story. It was entertaining & I learned a few things about dinosaurs. This is an interesting theory about parallel worlds, possible but tough to prove or disprove.
December 15, 2019
Interesting premise
Transported to a dinosaur world. A little above imagination, but a fun read. I would guess most everyone would like to live with dinosaurs at least for a little while. Typos in the book, but they can be ignored. Recommended.
Transported to a dinosaur world. A little above imagination, but a fun read. I would guess most everyone would like to live with dinosaurs at least for a little while. Typos in the book, but they can be ignored. Recommended.
January 26, 2024
Uniquely Written!
Now how in the hell could a person imagine something like this book?
It is fascinating to read something so unique.
Where Mr. Konkel found so much information about the scientific world, I can't imagine.
Very well done Sir!
Now how in the hell could a person imagine something like this book?
It is fascinating to read something so unique.
Where Mr. Konkel found so much information about the scientific world, I can't imagine.
Very well done Sir!
March 22, 2018
It was a fun read! Somewhat of a new twist to it😊
March 24, 2018
Great Read
I enjoyed it....the idea of an alternate universe is provoking....pretty good book.....looking forward to the next one ...more interaction with dinosaurs
I enjoyed it....the idea of an alternate universe is provoking....pretty good book.....looking forward to the next one ...more interaction with dinosaurs
September 10, 2022
Enjoyable
I enjoyed reading it. The science part seemed a bit too much for me, wish I understood it better. The majority of the book was great.
I enjoyed reading it. The science part seemed a bit too much for me, wish I understood it better. The majority of the book was great.
November 29, 2023
Thoroughly enjoyed the book. There were a few times the wrong names were used and the ending of chapter 17 actually repeats a large section earlier from the chapter but otherwise a good story.
February 20, 2024
Borrowed this edition on February 19, 2024, from Amazon for free. Community time warped alternate universe with dinosaurs. Family comes first type of book.
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