This is a good distopian book. I wasn't sure where to settle on it because it feels like it switches between a YA vibe and an adult vibe. The narrator was great but I don't feel like she was the best pick to narrate this one. As much as I enjoy dystopian, this book was not for me.

Elsa, our main character is a strong woman, she is used to hard work, that she does ever since she was young to help her old grandmother, her work is dig in ancient piles of junk where she gets aluminum and metals that are worth a lot of credits, that she needs for water and food, and even to pay to be able to continue working in what she does… its a very hard life. I did like that we had the story told by different 4 main characters, Elsa is definitely the main one, because most of the story centers in herself in about a very special metal cylinder she found on the heap (that's the ancients piles of garbage I have spoken about before), I do like Walker (another main character, that will really help Elsa) , but I don’t really care for his brother… he can make everything bad… I am sure of it… I dread to know what will happen in the second volume, Tatsuda seems a very smart boy, he reminds me of Gleen from the walking dead (mostly because all Asian characters with a sassy attitude remind me of him) he looks younger than his actual age and he plays that to his advantage, and he is a very good pickpocket and when I first heard his part on the story I imagined we would go a very different rout, but that is for me to know and for you to discover. Caithlyn needed a direction on her life and somehow she is very good getting stray cats haha,.

I enjoyed a lot this book, the story was good, it takes place in a distant future that even being in the future it feels just around the corner, I got to listen to the audiobook, and it was a very good experience, we had two people reading it, a male voice Rusty mewha, and I only have high praises for him, he tried to make different voices when was him reading, and a female voice Angelina Rocca, while she was OK, she wasn't great, Rusty parts on the book were more amusing, but still I really enjoyed this story and this audiobook and I really recommend for you to grab a copy for yourself, I just want to read what comes next.

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media | Dreamscape Lore, for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

SoCal in the late 2100's is a dystopian world of depleted resources and social oppression. Struggling for survival, Elsa finds a metal tube with maps and keys to Doomsday bunkers hidden by the resistance. After being run out of town, and chased by the GreenCorps, Elsa pairs up with a 'train hopper' - Walker, on a hazardous journey to find the bunker.

This was a fun read with action, romance, drama, and intrigue. It had all the feeling of a 2010's dystopian YA fiction, but aged up for an adult audience. I enjoyed the cast of characters, including the healer and teenage pickpocket, and the author did a great job of intertwining multiple POVs to create a compelling read. The author has created an interesting world, and I look forward to exploring it in the next book in the series.

The audio narration was great. I found myself immersed in the story, and felt the narrators did a great job of expressing the emotional experiences of Elsa and Walker. I particularly enjoyed the variations in the narration for journal entries and letters.

I'd recommend this audiobook for anyone looking for a nostalgic, dystopian, entertaining read. Thank you Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed are my own.

Switching Tracks: Out of the Trash written by Lena Gibson and narrated by Rusty Mewha; Angelina Rocca is the speculative fiction/ dystopic/ post-apocalyptic series we have been looking forward to and it is utterly enthralling!

The performances by Rusty Mewha and Angelina Rocca are outstanding and add so many different dimensions to an already strong piece of literature

Can you imagine a post-apocalyptic world, with a brutal, unforgiving climate that is run by a corporatocracy? This is life in "SoCal" in 2195 where soceity is divided into two classes. Those in the Greencorps who deal in metal coins and controlling the monopoly on food and thos on the other side, who scavenge through "ancient" trash heaps for metals and things they can sell in exchange for their version of coins, plastic tokens which they exchange for food and water

Elsa lives with her grandmother, workingtogether to burrow down into the trash to the level to 21st century rubbish and on one fortuitous occasion, Elsa finds a steel tube whicch is essentially the most precious metal that will feed her and her gran for weeks if not months, however, this is no ordinary container, this one could change their world as they know it

This book had me rapt and I really enjoyed the dynamics and dialogue between the characters. The soceital construct was genius and I really liked how the world had a level of plausibility, especially due to the climate and having to wear UV goggles in sunlight and washing yourself with sand and not water (I really, really disliked Aiden)

Brilliant and highly recommended, I am really looking forward to book 2!

Thank you to Netgalley, Dreamscape Media | Dreamscape Lore, the incredible author Lena Gibson and brilliant narrators Rusty Mewha and Angelina Rocca for this awesome ALC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

Thank you Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for this audiobook.

I was very interested a story aimed at adults with a twist on classic YA tropes (older MC, evil corporation instead of government, etc.).
While the execution is good and the book delivers on its promises, it was just not for me.
As always, it's very personal and not a critic of the quality of the book.
I would have liked a trigger warning on the very heavy sexual assault scenes. I fell like when it's that graphic and almost a chapter long, it should be mentioned somewhere.
I also felt like the MC were your standard YA hero and heroin, with not much depth, but this might come come from the narrators, which I felt were suffering through it.