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Interesting!

Revisado: 10-26-24

It seemed a little immature, but was based on a lot of good research and provided great background details. Worth a listen. Short stand alone book!

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WoW!

Revisado: 07-05-24

What a roller coaster ride! I really enjoyed the adventure and appreciate all the research that was done to create such an authentic story. Well done!!

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Another Adventure with the Talbot Clan

Revisado: 01-09-24

Buckle up for another roller coaster of a ride with the Talbot Clan and this creative genius. A mix of returning and new characters come together to ride out and hopefully survive not one but two disasters at once. Who will make to book two and who will just vanish from this plane of existence all together? Enjoy the ride!

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Not My Favorite

Revisado: 06-19-23

This story hasn’t hooked me like others Chris has written. I struggled to keep listening and got board at times. It’s just not for me.

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Ugh! The worst series I’ve come across in a long time!

Revisado: 05-14-23

The author says in his closing note, he wanted to write a book about a plane coming down and build a series off of that. There is so many scattered random acts. Characters suddenly having a total personality change, as well as huge distortions in reality made this series a struggle to get through.

Random characters with no background are thrown in throughout to be road kill or some how be the survivors of his sanctuary. While other characters have total personality changes or reversals in just pages. It just didn’t make sense. Mel being one of the worst and unbelievable characters throughout series. Innocent girl to gun crazed killer. The NSG (a survivalist group) and the scavengers (steel workers from PA) are another example of unrealistic characters. Survivalist groups, usually are not just a group of men. If they’re planning for an event to survive, they would be preparing their families too. Everyone has a role to play in their survival, and they want everyone around them to be prepared. The PA steel workers also while true could be a rough and tough group, but generally also hold family in high regard and not just blood realities. These are two groups of people who are usually very tight which each other, protect each other, and come together. Yet in your series both of these groups just forget about their families. They don’t even really think to check to see if anyone of their families are alive. Or if they were needed care enough for them and left them to fend for themselves. On top of that the reader is supposed to believe that these normally tight groups would suddenly just fall in line behind an outsider. And not just any outsider, but one who is very different from them (a deranged and burned Russian killer who spouts off about a demon who guides him). This is the man they all decide to follow leaving everything they believed in and stood for in the past. All these characters just fall in line to do the Russian’s bidding including dying. Even as their friends are killed off (including their former leader) no one reacts, they just keep following the madman.

At the battle to take the fort is one of the first huge stretches in reality. With three, now armed vans and 7-8 bikes the group follow the mass Russian and swarm the fort overwhelm the military. I guess those three vans also got a clown car upgrade along with the new armor in order to carry such overwhelming numbers of men. Yet looking back the NSG originally wasn’t that big of group compared to the numbers living at the fort.

If your writing a book that is based on reality, it’s important to stay rooted in that. You’ve got to really research who, where, and what you are writing about. (Like you did with the guns and ammo, although that got to be a bit of and other kill. You did keep that real with clips actually running out instead of being unending.) You also need to pay attention to your numbers.

As the writer you also need to have clear ideas and plans well thought out. At the battle for the fort first the group was trying to capture it for their own. Yet in a blink of and eye they’re burning it to the ground in the fight. Which is it? You don’t destroy something you want to keep and use.

Our next big reality stretch comes in big escape. Somehow all this time has passed as survivors of the fort leave for Atlanta. However with all the different roads the survivors could have possibly taken, it just so happens that the few remaining NSG guys (Their original leader dead, the crazy Russian dead, and countless others… they evidently must have caught the crazy bug from the Russian, as well as must been possessed by his demon friend too.) some how pulled off a demonic miracle by following the survivors exact route. Every off or on ramp, every left or right turn, some how the remaining NSG guys end up on what seems to be some rural country road to find the broken down truck of the survivors. It’s a total demonic miracle! As the reader, I questioned why would they stay in that same beat up truck so long. Because surely with all the car lots and homes along the way they could have found something better. However in the story it seems like we’re supposed to believe on the day of this event, if you owned a vehicle you were out driving it. So finding a vehicle without a body was a challenge throughout. When in reality the number of cars to people, not to mention all the car lots. They should have found endless options to pick from. This want and EMP attack. Funnier yet was once the survivors were surrounded and under attack then one of them explains that same realization I as they reader had to the group. If the character knew that, why didn’t they act on that? If they had been on the run being chased, that would make sense. But in their situation they had no clue the NSG were behind them and had plenty of time to act. This was all such an unrealistic stretch that you should have researched better and formulated a better plan or reason for this to happen. Or better yet let them go and have them run into a different group that could be surprisingly dropped in and be just as crazy for some reason.

It’s great you had an idea and a friend who could give you insight about planes. But I think you need a lot more help to build a realistic story map and plan for the whole series. Your series lack in realistic understanding about the places where the events happened. How the characters were to get from one plane to another. As well as the how and why people would realistically react in those possible situations. If there was a well developed plan. Where you carefully wove in the important details along the way, then there would be the need to just drop in random details at points because you needed the reader to know something. For example the quick random conversation about BASE jumping. (Which at this point as the reader I have painfully insured hours of the story and figured out your style enough, to now have a pretty good idea of how things will play out.) So unfortunately the ending was no big reveal or surprise.

As for the narrator, it’s obvious from my comments above I want impressed by the story, but your narration didn’t help bring it to life either. The variation in voices, the yells, or even what sounds like talking into a glass at times left the me bored and wanting better. Granted you weren’t the worst narrator I’m heard, I made the painful journey all the way to the end, but your current skills are along way from measuring up to the best narrator out there.

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Ugh! The Intro Letters and the Voice

Revisado: 10-03-22

The Intro Letters and the Voice, are a knockout. The narration so is bland, snoooooooze. The “letter writing” seems like the author is stealing the idea of journaling from another hit zombie series. They only difference is that this story, combined with the narration, has “no life” to it.

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Love this series, but…

Revisado: 07-02-22

I was surprised to see a new installment because I thought book 16 was the finale. All the books up to this point have been amazing and the adventure Gas been well thought out and development.

This book though has some great ideas but they weren’t fully developed. Zombie train, great idea and something new. The building tension of the falling breaks adds to the tension but then the last two stops they make with the train are skipped over.

One scientist is separated and their keeper is going to go after them, but then they’re all on the run and the scientist is forgotten about. Escaping on Segways, also interesting and something new, but the escape gets murky.

Eastman, who’s been a decent guy and helpful to Mike and his team, starts off the same way, but then has an erupt attitude change out of the blue. We’re now supposed to believe that he’s willing to kill off Mikes and his team? We all know Mike’s tough on his superiors, but that kind of scheme has been built over time with background. Eastman just seems to have a quick psychotic break and then we move on. The last park of the book is a mission of the unthinkable, because it couldn’t be done in the beginning of the book, but somehow they can now. Confusing!

The ending is abrupt and odd. The tacked on “made up” story at the very end also ends abruptly and isn’t finished.

I’ve left out the fact that the premise of the book is that these two kids found Mike’s Journals and are reading it. Their story line isn’t well developed and are thrown in at random times. At this point I’m left wondering why even include them?

The story has some interesting ideas, but needed more craftsmanship invested in to its development, background, and plot. The next installment is out in August and I’ve already preordered. I just hope to see the return of Tufo’s past masterful writing style.

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Hooked Right From the Beginning!!!

Revisado: 12-15-21

I usually only rate books with the star rating system, but had to do more for this book.

The story hooked me right from the start. I found the plot idea very interesting and all the fun characters JR adds along the way. It was hard to hit pause for anything. My only “hmm” about the book was the ending. I feel like that it could have been stretched out and built up a little more or maybe it was just me not liking that it was coming too and end. Anyway, I really enjoyed the book and finished it in less than two days.

The other reason I wanted to write something was because of the hilarious bloopers reel of RC Bray that were at the very end of the book. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. So make sure you stay tuned to the very end for some good laughs.

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Hooked!

Revisado: 08-16-21

I couldn’t stop listening! Well researched and well written. I’d write more, but book 2 awaits!

Enjoy!!

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Love This Series!!

Revisado: 01-15-21

Another great addition to this series. This is a must listen, as well as all the others in the series.

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