The Immaculate Void

Written by Brian Hodge

Narrated by Grahame Bywater

A novel of time, trauma, and terror by “a writer of spectacularly unflinching gifts [who] leaves most contemporary horror writing in the dust” (Peter Straub).

“You wouldn’t think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of millions of miles distant, would have anything to do with each other.”
When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor’s toolshed, and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through.

“You wouldn’t think that the serial murders of children, and the one who got away, would have any connection with the strange fate of one of Jupiter’s moons.”
Two decades later, when Daphne goes missing again, it’s nothing new. As her exes might agree, running is what she does best. So her brother Tanner sets out one more time to find her. Whether in the mountains, or in his own family, search-and-rescue is what he does best.

“But it does. It’s all connected. Everything’s connected.”
Down two different paths, along two different timelines, Daphne and Tanner both find themselves trapped in a savage hunt for the rarest people on earth, by those who would slaughter them on behalf of ravenous entities that lurk outside of time.

“So when things start to unravel, it all starts to unravel.”
But in ominous signs that have traveled light-years to be seen by human eyes, and that plummet from the sky, the ultimate truth is revealed: There are some things in the cosmos that terrify even the gods.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JournalStone Publishing
• Release date: Dec 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781094243740

Brian Hodge

Brian Hodge is the author of eight novels, including Wild Horses and Dark Advent, and three story collections, as well as numerous short stories in various publications and anthologies. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and for the World Fantasy Award.

Reviews for The Immaculate Void

[Charles Haines · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The narration was unprofessional. Every character read in the same voice, no change for action. Sometimes it switched to another scene, and I was lost for 5 minutes because the scene transitions weren't well signaled, and the characters all sounded like the previous characters. The narration sounded exactly like the dialogue. I'm not certain I would've liked the story anyway.

[Nina Quartuccio · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A different narrator would have made this a better read for me. With no distinction between characters and story line breaks, I found it difficult to follow. For the shortness, the author crams and very well, alot of information and story line. The story itself, had all the right stuff but the narrator kept me from really immersing myself...I found myself as cold as the narrator's voice. I forced myself to give 4 stars because of it but I really wanted to give only 3 but felt it wasn't the authors fault why rob him.

[leanora stringer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Super interesting listen. I live in the area it's set in, so that was fun to hear. Keep in mind when listening the sister talks in first person.

[Nazli · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Great book. Terrible narrator. I recommend reading it instead of listening to this audiobook.