There shall come over the whole Earth, an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. He who opens his window or door out of curiosity, or leaves his home, will fall dead on the spot. The air will be infected by demons, appearing in all sorts of hideous forms. All of Hell will be let loose.

Miah Gray is an Army veteran living with PTSD in New Hampshire, and all he wants to do is get high and not be hassled by his Mom or her boyfriend. A good sandwich wouldn't hurt either.  Miah is not religious, and he has little interest in prophecies, but when the sun no longer shines in the daytime sky and his world is plunged into darkness, Miah finds himself willing to rethink his position.  Locked down with his family, Miah is going with the flow and doing what he can to protect everyone when a flash of light knocks everyone out. They all awaken to find that Miah now has a death rune etched into his forehead. Isn't that just great?

Miah is not a character I found myself identifying with at first, but he has a good heart and his sense of humor grows on you. Place him into a non-standard apocalyptic setting and all of a sudden I went from disinterested to intrigued by what was going on and wanting to know what would happen next. I won't spoil the story by providing any more details, but suffice it to say that I enjoyed it way more than the other two Jeremy Robinson books I have read: Infinite and Mind Bullet. In both those other cases I felt that he took a possibly interesting story and went waaay to far with it until he left me behind, but this time I was willing to go along for the ride as the story expanded well beyond where it started.

The audiobook version is narrated by R. C. Bray, who is a master craftsman and makes any apocalyptic story better when he reads it. This one also had some outtakes at the very end of R. C. screwing up parts of the narration and those had me laughing out loud. A nice little bonus for choosing to listen to this one and now I want that for every book I listen to.