Brightness Falls isn’t just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it’s also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates. By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the … later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug. Who loves Andrew’s work, but escaped The Other Side to warn Andrew of a self-proclaimed god with desires to return to Brightness Falls.
Wow, that is a lot to take in. That above paragraph is jammed packed with a lot of crap. Thou the oral sex accident sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Let’s take the whole thing down a notch. Let’s try it again, please…
With the town’s annual festival, Brightfest, which commemorates the deadly day it’s population collectively walked to the bottom of the lake, only days away, and the threat of an inadvertently bloodthirsty, self-proclaimed god returning to reenact the event, Andrew is sent scrambling to save his sister, friends, lovers, and the town he’s loathed in, before the god is able to complete his predestined experiment to bringing his wife back. If Andrew can get out of his own way to unravel the towns dark secrets, as well as his own, maybe he’ll come out of it with a new TV show idea. Oh and save the town.
Well fuck, that wasn’t much better. Still, a lot going on in that paragraph too. Here let me try…
This is the story of a man who loves women, hates his home town, and has to go through a shit ton of shit for both of them. Oh and someone dies during oral sex, can’t leave that out.
Boom nailed it! Best book description ever – Your Wife
The second book in the Aurora Wasteland Literary Universe, which combines Horror, Scifi, and Humor.
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Just finished this novel and breathed a sigh of relief at surviving. Not talking about the story; talking about the seventh grade level of grammer. Please get rid of the editor and hire an adult who has passed high school English! Perhaps this is the author’s writing style or perhaps there’s a method to the madness. If so, please warn us in a forward to the book. It took me several months to get over being frustrated by the last book. Don’t know if I’ll make it to the next.
The story itself is a raunchy, funny roller coaster into the Twilight Zone. It’s a bit confusing trying to keep up with the varying timelines, but trust the author. He pulls it all together in the end. There are some great characters, both good and bad, whose lives are intertwined in the village of Brightness Falls. I liked them all and was sad to see some of them killed off. Even the ones who weren’t real. This is a twisty plot about opening doors into adjoining worlds and the chaos that ensues. However, in the end, it’s a love story about two people who want to spend their lives together.
This book was absolutely amazing!! It has alot of crude humor which may not be for everyone. It definitely was for me though! I enjoyed this book so much. I received this as an advanced listeners copy. Antler Doug is awesome! The twists in this book have twists and so on! It surprisingly was easy to keep it on order. I loved this book!
Time Traveling-Sci-fiy-Darkish Humor done well.
You know those movies that you can’t keep track of when it goes back and forth? Yea, well that’s not this. Vaugh has a way of keeping you engaged enough that you can keep up with what’s going on in each time line.
Interesting characters and an even more interesting plot with ladybugs!! Yo Bro, how did you make my little beautiful bugs the evil bug!!
Great read, give it a try.
Narrator, Joseph Vernon, did a pretty decent job of showing emotion and I love how he did the mom at one point, really felt what she was going through.
I received a copy of the audiobook in exchange for my honest review, and there ya have it.
Title: Brightness Falls
Author: Vaughn Ashby
Format: Audio
Narrator: Joseph P Vernon
Genre: Horror, Dark Comedy, SciFi, Time-Travel
Standalone: Yes
Part of a Series: Part of the Aurora Westeland
POV: Multiple
Steam Level: I wouldn’t say it was sexy, but they’re a bit of sexual content (I mean, hello, read the book description)
4.5/5
I listened to this audiobook the way I listen to all my audiobooks – while doing other things. This is not a book to do that with. It took me a little bit to get into it but once I did it was complete mind f**k.. This book definitely deserves either your full attention or a reread. Taking place across time, multiple stories intersect and weave together in unexpected ways.
Favorite Quote: If you want to save the town alone, you better chain me to a better oven.
I received this audiobook for free from StoryOrigin. This is my honest a voluntary review.