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You won't be dissapointed!

Revisado: 02-23-22

This was more of a movie for the ears than it was a standard audiobook, but I loved it, nonetheless. Fantastic production, killer storyline, and characters you actually care about. I listen to hundreds of audiobooks a year and leave reviews for only the few that I absolutely loved or despised. I LOVED this one!

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What the heck??

Revisado: 12-30-21

I suspect that somewhere beneath this disjointed performance and excessive use of sound effects is a decent story, but I had to give up halfway through. It almost sounds like it was cobbled together using episodes of a serial podcast. If that's what you're into, this might be for you. If you're looking for a word-for-word reading of a book, you'll likely be as annoyed by the production as I was.

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Fantastic story, perfectly narrated.

Revisado: 10-11-21

How have I never read anything by Jonathan Fredrick before?? This guy can WRITE! In my opinion, only James Lee Burke and Stephen King can write their characters off of the page and into my head the way Jonathan Fredrick just did. Masterfully done, and Ari Fliakos was the perfect choice to narrate this story.

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It pains me to say it, but I'm disappointed.

Revisado: 12-28-17

First, let me say that I LOVE Dean Koontz, both for the stories he tells and the masterful way in which he tells them. I've enjoyed everything I've read from him over the years...until now. This story felt to me like the ball of cotton you pull out of a bottle of aspirin: fluffy filler, put in place to keep parts one and three from breaking each other up into little bits during transport. I was so bored with the story near the end that I actually had to go back and confirm that the audiobook was indeed written by the master himself. It did not help matters that the narrator read the entire book in such a way that she could have recorded the audio from a quiet table in any public library without having the slightest worry of raising the ire of even the strictest of librarians. As much as I'd like to say I won't read the next in the series, we're talking Dean Koontz here...I won't be able to help myself. I'm sure it'll be much, much better.

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I tried to like it...

Revisado: 08-18-17

After enjoying the first few chapters, I had high hopes for this one. The storyline was captivating, and there were at least a couple compelling characters. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for it to bog down under the weight of far too much information (where's an editor when you need one?), and once the storyline did FINALLY get moving again, it went completely off the rails. By the end, it felt like a twisted children's story reimagined as a horror gore-fest. An entirely too long twisted children's horror-gore fest, at that.

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...I guess my expectations were just set too high.

Revisado: 06-26-17

I'm going to keep this short and succinct so I don't accidently drop a spoiler.

There was a sizable cast of characters in this story, but with one or two possible exceptions, they were all so unlikable that I really didn't care what happened to them in any given scene. That made it difficult enough to enjoy, but what drove me crazy about the story was the totally unbelievable motivating factor that drives the primary antagonist. I can suspend an awful lot of disbelief to enjoy a thriller, but that was just too much for me.

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Was this recorded in a public library?

Revisado: 03-14-17

I made it through this audiobook through sheer force of will. The narrator whispers his way through the entire book as if he's recording in a public library or trying not to wake the baby. VERY irritating and distracting! I hoped the storyline would progress to the point where I would no longer be bothered by the vocal delivery, but it never even came close.

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Who knew the end of the world could be so dull?

Revisado: 01-12-17

I don't want to be unfair to the author, because he really did do a masterful job of capturing the day-to-day minutia of post-apocalyptic life, but too much detail=boring, boring, boring. In my opinion, the author got a bit over-protective of the rich and lively characters he created, but it's possible I've just been overly conditioned to expect action and peril from all of the post-apocalyptic novels I've read.

Scott Brick, as usual, is a masterful narrator.

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Zombie romance?? Not for me, thanks.

Revisado: 11-16-16

This is the review I wish I would've read before selecting this title:

THIS IS A ZOMBIE ROMANCE NOVEL!!

Romance!

Not just a little romance, mind you. I made it halfway through before giving up, and to that point the storyline seems to be a mix of 70% romance with a touch of murder/mystery and zombies thrown into the mix. If you aren't a fan of romance novels, you WILL (most likely) NOT enjoy this book!

To be fair to the author, I gave the book four stars because I did not want to ruin the ratings based on my genre bias. Based solely on my personal opinion, I would've felt charitable giving it two stars overall (the performance was solid), but who am I to judge a genre I know nothing about?

It's really a shame, too, because the premise of a zombie detective was compelling.

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A deeply disturbing delight

Revisado: 09-04-16

I loved everything about this perfectly paced novella. I'd leave it at that, but a review requires at least fifteen words.

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