The Extinction Trials

Written by A. G. Riddle

Narrated by John Skelley

The end … is only the beginning.

After a mysterious global event known only as ‘The Change,’ six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they’re part of the Extinction Trials—a scientific experiment to restart the human race.

But the Extinction Trials harbours a very big secret.
And so does the world outside.

From A.G. Riddle, the Amazon and Wall Street Journal bestselling author with nearly five million copies sold worldwide in twenty languages, comes an epic standalone adventure with a surprise ending unlike anything you’ve ever read before.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781980033172

A. G. Riddle

A. G. Riddle spent ten years starting Internet companies before retiring to pursue his true passion: writing fiction. He is the author of the Origin Mystery, the million-copy bestselling trilogy—including The Atlantis Gene, The Atlantis Plague, and The Atlantis World. A native of North Carolina, he lives in Florida with his wife.

Reviews for The Extinction Trials

[bluiee · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

5hours in and I'm soo very bored. It started great but now its just meh. Don't even feel like finishing it.

[Evan and Caris · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Honestly very cool, a bit too much mystery, there could have been more reveals that wouldn't have ruined anything and enhanced the enjoyment of story, as the relevance was easy to miss. Ending was great and a nice surprise, would have enjoyed that being fleshed out a but more.

[Ash Waziry · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Very predictable, not one of his good books! Long winter is much better.

[Shawnne Springman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely wonderful and continues to draw you in as the end nears the excitement builds to a mind blown end. This is brilliantly written!

[drchevalier · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Overly long in desperate need of an editor. Most characters one dimensional until late in the book. It’s ok but after two tries with this author I’m done now. Better than Quantum Radio which I couldn’t even bother finishing

[Veronica Salazar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A page-turner, an awesome thriller that kept me listening to several chapters in a row. A.G. Riddle continues to entertain, delivering stories of crazy possibilities. Also, the voice actor reading this book, John Skelley, does superb job.

[b4995tmy6m · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A G Riddle writes like no other keeps me spellbound

[ronploude · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

AG Riddle writes stories that include world-changing events and suspenseful travel. My first introduction to Riddle’s writing was with his Atlanta Gene series. Just like The Extinction Trials, there was travel, suspense, and budding world change. In The Extinction Trials, two main characters quickly emerge, a neurological scientist and a fireman. Both did their career jobs nobly intending to save lives. But competing world factions, bent on wiping out existing humanity and restarting a new population, ended their prospects. One political faction used a memory steeling pandemic to accomplish that goal while the other used technology to create killer robots out of all the service robots. Fortunately, a third faction cryogenically preserved as many non-aligned citizens as possible to facilitate the survival of the human species. The factional wars continued, but The Extinction Trials’ story is primarily about the two main characters, put into cryogenic sleep, who wake up in a dystopian future and are left with vague clues leading to the third faction’s sanctuary. The two end up battling other survivors on the way and mistakenly end up in the pandemic-spreading faction’s control. That faction attempts to chemically alter their minds to make them more compliant to its cause. But they escape before the changes manifest and manage to get to the sanctuary. At the sanctuary, two advanced androids meet them and assure the couple that they can remove the changes to their brains and preserve them along with the rest of humanity. The couple emerges thousands of years after the rest of the awakened population and find themselves on a new virgin planet. During the time of their extended cryogenic sleep, humanity had built new civilizations on earth and was at a technical level similar to the 1960s. The robots provided the two main characters with a large endowment in the form of diamonds, stones that were plentiful in their former world but are rare on earth and very valuable. Using that endowment, the couple invests in promising world-changing technology companies. At the end of the book, they are going on to prepare the population for settling other planets so that the human race no longer faces extermination at the hands of its political factions. The book’s story and its pace kept me engaged. I spent many a late hour reading when I should have been resting in preparation for the following day’s obligations. As a result of AG Riddle formulary writing, I don’t think that I would have enjoyed The Extinction Trials if I had read immediately following the Atlantis Gene. Fortunately, this is a new book that came out long after I read that series so I didn’t need to.

[huberk-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

5 stars, The world as they knew it has ended, now what?THE EXTINCTION TRIALS by A.G. RiddleA small group of people wakes up in a fallout shelter and as they are learning about what is going on, one of the people waking up murders the man who was telling them about the state of the world at this time. They find that they have to work together to get any further with their escape. Highly recommend a great dystopian science fiction novel.Many thanks to #netgalley #legionbooks for the complimentary copy of #theextinctiontrials I was under no obligation to post a review.