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Gray: The Complete Collection

The Gray, Books 1-3

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Gray: The Complete Collection

Written by: Lou Cadle
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
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A dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky.

It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and up until it loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow, she knew, it was Death coming for her.

Pre-med student Coral is on vacation in Idaho when something terrible happens. The black cloud is followed by a wildfire and searing heat that lasts for days. She survives deep in a cave but emerges days later to find the world transformed, with blackened trees, an ash-filled sky, and no living creatures stirring - except for her.

So begins her desperate journey to find water and food and other survivors...and the answer to the mystery of what happened.

Note: This is a combined edition of Gray I, Gray II, and Gray III.

©2017 Lou Cadle (P)2017 Podium Audio Adventure Fantasy Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Survival Apocalyptic Fiction
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Grey is a great book. I downloaded it because of its length to take on a paddling trip.
I could not stop listening. even lostened on the way to work and coming home! Excellent story about our differences as humans and what we are and are not capable of . I highly recommend it.
Also finished it 2 days before the trip even started!

Do It!

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I enjoyed this different take on a disaster happening and wish there were more books to read in the series. I will always wonder how their lives turned out. really makes you think about what would survive and who.

Never give up!

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Gray was a good listen/read. It was interesting and storyline was easy to follow. But (there’s always a ‘but’) .. I could have used a heavier context and story. This is what my mom used to call ‘pulp’. It’s a read/listen and nothing wrong with it. The narrator was good and the audio had no bumps, tweaks and whistles that I could hear. All good and you can’t go wrong (IMHO).

Well .. it’s good.

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I'm not a zombie/prepper fan, and wonderfully--Gray was neither thing!

I literally just did the 3 books from awake to asleep in 2 nights. Riveted by this series. Here's why I love it, and why you should, too.
1- this is what happens after the world ends. (No spoilers) Lou Cadle wrote a brilliant story with a heroine who's not totally a superhero, and Lauren Fortgang did a FIRST RATE job bringing this entertaining and really well written series to it's conclusion. I'm not spoiling any of it except to say this--all these things are possible. I'm old, old enough to remember old radios, CB and Shortwave, and pretty much she wrote things correctly. The medical parts were reasonably correct, how to milk goats was reasonably correct, Lou did some homework before setting words to page.
No idea if the science is all right but I suspect it's right as well.

The way she told the story was bold and interesting. I am partially sighted so being able to read a story well, brings it to life "in our heads, " When. you have a good narrator, it really makes or breaks a story. Generally I listen to male narrators, being a sci-fi nerd, with the exception of some of Kate Reading's stuff (she does Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive). I'll absolutely listen to this narrator again, she did a great job. She made all the people's voices different, and did the best she could with male voices, there are just some things we women can't do, lower register voices are difficult for women, same as high voices are hard for most men. She kept us, the listener engaged with the story.

ONE thing though--Lou--the word is "Ineptitude", not "Ineptness". When Coral in the book thought Ineptness, I swore because the incorrect word threw me. Otherwise, I loved it.

Excellent story and narration~no spoilers

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Good story, and it pulls you in. Very well performed.

Great story of survival.

Thanks

Great book

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