

White Horse
Author: Alex Adams
Narrator: Emily Durante
Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/17/2012
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Alex Adams
Narrator: Emily Durante
Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/17/2012
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Alex Adams is a literary and cultural critic and novelist based in northeast England. He was awarded his PhD from Newcastle University in 2014 and has published widely on the subject of torture and popular culture. He likes real ale and dogs.
so this is why i hate reviewing advanced readers' copies. after the thrill of "yayyyyy, i have something that youuuu don't have" wears off, i am stuck here with a book that was good, but didn't blow my mind. and now i have to be all critical about it, and it can't even defend itself yet. and it is p......more
Bottom line, this book has *a lot* to recommend it: it is a dark, dream-like, post-apocalyptic landscape with sharp turns and compelling plot twists. I experienced a few moments of genuine shock (remarkable for a jaded reader like myself) and not once did I ever want to stop reading. I just had to k......more
You slip into the first pages of WHITE HORSE and are so overwhelmed by the beauty of the writing that you barely notice the horrific events unfolding. Imagine writing that dances across incestuous rape and the noise of cats lapping decomposing human flesh and still makes you want to cry for the beau......more
If you survived the end of the world, what would you become? Surely you don't imagine you'd remain the very same you, the you that you've come to know and love (and self-loathe at intervals.) Would you become a hero? A hermit? Or perhaps a looter, or a lunatic? What is there left after every achievem......more
For the first 100 pages, White Horse was well on its way to being a five star read. That's not to say it didn't have problems, it did. * But the story was entertaining. The structure was highly effective. The tale of two girls, one blind, trying to make it in this post-apocalyptic landscape worked w......more