Flashback Dawn

by Wayne Kyle Spitzer

The complete sequel to Flashback (originally published as a serial), non-illustrated. Naaygi found them waiting for her—as she somehow knew they would be—as the cage doors opened, their forward-facing eyes glinting the same hue as the lights in the sky and their dark, storm-colored bodies held absolutely still (even as another animal joined them and brought their number to four). She even knew somehow what they were; that they were a breed of carnosaur the “evolved” humans had called nanotyrannosaurs, the “Pygmy Tyrants,” and that one of them, the one with the brand upon its tail, the leader, even had a name—Napoleon, for he had been bounced forward and back in time via another alien species well before the Flashback and still bore the scars of his sojourn among the humans. She didn’t know how she knew these things, no more than she knew just where, within herself, Naaygi ended—and they, the lights in the sky, began. She just did; just as she knew that the Nano-Ts represented a queer offshoot of the dinosaur population that was altogether fleeter and deadlier and cannier than anything that had come before it. And thus she bowed to them, her avengers, her killers—their killers, the lights in the sky—the rain running in rivulets down her body as she dropped to her knees and touched her forehead to the pavement, a pavement which ran red with blood and was strewn with the dismembered, disemboweled corpses of at least fifty men and women. And then she whispered to them in a language older than words, Follow me.

102 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2018

About the author

Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film, Shadows in the Garden, as well as the author of Flashback, an SF/horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer's non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. His recent fiction includes The Ferryman Pentalogy, consisting of Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, and To the End of Ursathrax, as well as The X-Ray Rider Trilogy and a screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows.

Reviews

[Bikram · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disclaimer.
I had requested and received audible version of this book for free from the narrator, in exchange for an unbiased review.

What I liked about the book -
This is an action-packed survival story taking place in a world devastated by an apocalyptic event. That sets the stage for an awesome story telling. And the book delivers.

This is second book of the series and I was feeling lost at the beginning since I haven't read the first book. It sounded like most of the world building was already covered in that first book and hence it took me some time to get familiar with the surroundings in this one. So, I would recommend reading that first book first.

Once you are ready though, the story takes you on an adventurous journey, full of perils and danger lurking at every corner. The action sequences are written very well and you feel like you are in the middle of it all. It moves very fast and doesn't let up steam. Entertained.

What I disliked about the book -
Nothing specific that I can think of.

Narration -
Narration by Alan Philip Ormond was very well done. His voice brought the story to life.

[Victoria Haugen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really liked this story, and the narration brought it to life. It's not my normal genre, but I really am glad to get an opportunity to listen, because I enjoyed it! Lots of action, suspense, and gore, if you like that sort of thing, I do! :) I definitely now want to listen to the first one, so I can get fully acquainted with the series. Great job!!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.