Karen’s Library's Reviews > Solitude

Well that was a fun listen for the most part. R.C. Bray and Julia Whelan’s performances are what really made this book exciting.

The entire population of humans AND animals on earth ALL disappear! Angela was on the space station and Vaughn was in a NASA experiment and wasn’t technically “on earth” so these two are the only survivors. Unfortunately, Angela is starving to death on the space station. Can Vaughn figure out how to rescue the lone astronaut?

This was an action packed book with lots and lots of NASA science. Although I love the science, there were times where it was a little tedious.

But... the narrators made it completely worth it! And for about the last half, the book really took off and I couldn’t get enough.

This story was reminiscent of The Martian as far as everything that could go wrong did, and how can we get past it and build something else? Angela and Vaughn were not as amusing as Mark Watney, though. Oh, ok... maybe Angela and her pets were. Loved those bits!