

Expiration Day
Author: William Campbell Powell
Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Skyboat Media
Published: 04/12/2016
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian
Author: William Campbell Powell
Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Skyboat Media
Published: 04/12/2016
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian
William Campbell Powell was born in Sheffield, England, and grew up in and around Birmingham. He attended King Edward’s School in Birmingham and won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where initially he studied Natural Sciences and subsequently majored in Computer Science. He now lives in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with his wife, Avis, and his two teenage sons. Expiration Day is his first novel.
Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.
I found this to be a very compelling and well written book. It was not at all what I was expecting. I don't normally find myself drawn to diary format books - the last one I read was Among Others by Jo Walton, which I loved, and I thought Powell held his own compared to that (yes, now there's a comp......more
While William Campbell Powell's debut novel may be shelved in the young adult section of your local bookstore or library, Expiration Day is one of those books that can and should get a wider audience from brave readers who are willing to overlook shelf placement in making their reading selections. In......more
This and other reviews can be found on The Psychotic Nerd Actual Rating: 2.5 MY THOUGHTS I was expecting so much more in this book. Granted, I didn't know much about it when I picked it up, but I knew it was a dystopian and the tagline promises a lot more than I ended up reading. This book was okay......more
Expiration Day by William Campbell Powell is a unique twist on a future filled with robots, since the robots look like children and are designed to keep the population sane as the birthrate plummets. Expiration Day is also unique because it is told through diary entries from the main character with......more
“A remarkable and heart-filled look at what it means to be human. If you’re not in tears by the last chapter, you’ve a hard heart indeed.” Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author
“In a marvelously touching performance, narrator Gabrielle de Cuir embodies the fragility, determination, and curiosity of a fourteen-year-old English schoolgirl…De Cuir makes every last word of this first-person story come alive with an adolescent’s hopes, doubts, and dreams. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“An in-depth exploration into a dystopian society and what it truly means to be human, with many universal teen themes as well: music, romance, body image, family issues…Fans of sci-fi and dystopian fiction will appreciate this tale.” School Library Journal
“Through the diary of Tania Deeley, Powell has created a terrifyingly plausible future…and detailed worldbuilding with an unpredictably optimistic conclusion.” Kirkus Reviews
“This dystopic future is a memorable one…While sci-fi buffs might be the likeliest audience, an extra push to realistic fiction fans may have them contemplating the ways in which Tania comes of age and how little it differs from what they are themselves experiencing.” Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books