The Hospital: The First Mountain Man Story by Keith C. BlackmoreMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was my first audiobook experience! I was sceptical at first because the narrator's voice was kind of monotonous, but once Alice came along I was in stitches over it.
So WOW how does one even review an audio?
The story: It's obviously a prequel to another series (which I've never heard of but will investigate after this so please chime in if you know it) so it's just a short lil horror story about a dude who gets more than he bargained for when he scavenges a hospital for supplies in a post-apocalyptic world.
The story itself was okay - I feel like it would have been quite ominous on paper but the language would have thrown me off. Gus seems like kind of a d*ck? So I wasn't really sold on rooting for him. It was a bit of a 2-star story I think, to be honest.
But the audio ... omg it was fkng HILARIOUS. The voices had me pissing myself laughing and Alice was totally creepy in a YIKES kinda way. It turned the coarse language into more of a dark comedy and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't horror really, but it was hella creepy at times.
I found, with audio, it was harder to kind of immerse myself in the storytelling aspects - I think the first lil bit where he's gathering supplies would have worked better on paper, building the tension, but on audio it was kind of dull. I found it a lot harder to picture everything. But the narrator really made old Alice come alive and her screeching was just far more entertaining than I think it would be on paper. I think I probably would have rolled my eyes a lot at the excessive language, but listening to it was brilliant. Gus I could take or leave. Whatever. *shrugs*
The bookends of the story were mostly kinda ehhhh but that middle section featuring Alice was a highlight for sure. I don't know that it ever really made a lot of sense to me, or that I followed it quite as well as I would have on paper, but for my first audio it wasn't terrible.
I listened to a free download on Audible
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