the dialog between the characters is read in different tones with emotion, but the descriptions are read robotically. but i decided to give it one more try before returning, and i'm glad i did! it took me about an hour to get used to the way the narrator read the book, but i was soon engrossed by the story. i started and stopped a few times, not being able to get past the first 10-15 minutes of it. i couldn't get past the robotic sounding narrator. ![]() I downloaded this audio book a long time ago, but i've put off listening to it b/c of the narrator. The rewards of success are great, but she will have to sacrifice everything, possibly even her life, to accomplish the ultimate goal of securing the future of humanity and saving it from extinction. Then one day Maria is summoned to meet with a mysterious representative from the Science Warfare Division and is offered the opportunity to finally destroy the Inferi Scourge in the valley and close the gate, reclaiming the lost lands and energizing the populace with renewed hope for the future. Their secret affair is her only happiness. Both are highly-decorated veterans of the last disastrous push against the Inferi Scourge. Her only refuge from the daily grind is in the arms of Dwayne Reichardt, an officer in the Bastion Constabulary. She yearns for a life away from the overcrowded streets, rolling blackouts, and food shortages, but there is no hope for anyone as long as the Inferi Scourge howl outside the high walls. ![]() Vanguard Maria Martinez has lived her entire life within the towering walls of steel. ![]() Now, decades later, the last remaining humans are struggling to survive in a dying city of dwindling resources.and dwindling hope. On one fateful day, the valley gate failed and the Inferi Scourge overran and destroyed the human settlements outside the walls, trapping the remaining survivors inside the city. A walled city surrounded by lush land, protected by high mountain summits, and fortified by a massive gate to secure the only pass into the valley, The Bastion remained humanity's last hope against the fearsome undead creatures known as the Inferi Scourge.
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