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Junkyard Cats

Shining Smith, Book 1

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Junkyard Cats

By: Faith Hunter
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
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From the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems.

After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets that she has guarded for years.

This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.

With dread, Shining realizes: Someone knows who she is. Someone knows what she is guarding. Will she be able to protect the scrapyard? Will she even survive? Or will Shining have to destroy everything she loves to keep her secrets out of the wrong hands?

©2020 Faith Hunter (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Paranormal Fantasy Cats Romance West Virginia Video Game Urban Fantasy City Shifter Young Adult Military Fiction

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I auto buy Faith Hunter and I am never disappointed. It gets even better when Khristine Hvam picks up the narration. I digress, Faith drops us into a dystopian junkyard belonging to Shining Smith. The apocalypse has already happened and the alien bugs settled the score, it left people to eke out an existence where they can. Shining is happy-ish and is way more than she seems, she lives alone apart from the junkyard cats and a war-bot she rescued.

But the world is now run by bikers, the biggest group the Hell's Angels have heard rumours that she is hiding something. Her only warning of the coming attack the note clutched in the dead fingers of her father's last friend. Then Jager arrives ........

It's all about the cats!

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A slow starter and slow narration, I had to increase the speed by 25% to stay with it.

It got going near the end

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Kristine Hvam can really do accents. But sometimes I found the Spanish almost impossible to understand with a mid European ear. She was a real pleasure to listen to.

The story and narrative. Meh. A bit spaghetti western, a bit military sci-fi, a bit hand waving tech. I got bored and gave up after a whike

Narrator almost too good

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I got sucked into this story more as it went on, and was sad when it was over. I can only hope this is the start of a new series as I love Faith Hunter’s books, and Khristine Hvam’s narration.

I’m hooked!

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I love Faith Hunter and I particularly enjoy listening to Khristine Hvam’s narration of her books. Buying this book was a no-brainer despite being a different genre from Ms Hunter’s usual works.

This work is set decades in the future, after several world wars and invasion of ‘bugs” from space. Shining Smith is a survivor of the wars, she lives in a junkyard left to her by her deceased father and is kept company by an office AI, called Gomez, a war-bot inhabited by a very damaged Matteo and dozens of cats.

This story starts with Shining discovering a dead body in the trunk of a car she bought on the black market, covered in bi-coloured ants, a dangerously genetically modified creation that seeks human flesh to consume. Shining survived a bi-coloured swarm attack as a child and still remembers the pain. Not many people survive swarm attacks.

In the footsteps of the dead body an OMW enforcer arrives. Shining and her father were part of the OMW and fought alongside the Government against the People’s Republic of China, but Shining was supposed to be dead and things were beginning to mount up, with no time to think.

This story is gripping, filled with drips of information about Shining, her life and the world in which she inhabits. It’s drip feed nature keeps you riveted throughout, and Shining is a complex and compelling character, that you root for from the start.

As this is an audible original, you can only get the book in audio format, so if you are a Faith Hunter fan, you have probably heard several of the accents and ‘voices’ used before in other books by Ms Hunter. However, this did little to detract from the great story.

I hope a future book in this series comes out soon, because I really enjoyed this one.

Excellent Dystopian Sci-Fi

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... and the narrator tells it convincingly. If you like SF there's a good chance you will enjoy this. If you like the author's other work, don't be discouraged by the slightly different genre. But, no spoilers.

Faith Hunter, please write a sequel?

Faith Hunter writes a good story...

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I’ve read the variety of Faith Hunter’s books over the years and have most audiobooks now.

Junkyard Cats had an exciting premise and I couldn’t wait to know more. The world builds easily through this short story, though the mystery of Shining Smith remains.

A great narrator, as always. Even for a Brit like me, easy to listen to and helps develop the story.

What a tease!

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Brilliant start to a new series. Looking forward to the next book. Faith Hunter and Kristine Hvam always make a good pairing.

Great start go a new series.

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i find the repeated explaination good as i am new to this kind of story. love the way the narrator does the difderent characters

quite interesting

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Strong heroine, interesting side characters, innovative ideas, lots of sarcasm from the AI. Cats! Really looking forward to more of this story please!

Superb!

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