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Well written, poorly performed

Revisado: 03-14-21

The series is a good read, and I wish I'd been able to physically read it rather than listen to it. The characters are interesting and the story is engaging. It was great to read a book that happens in my home country, and I wish there had been more of the country involved.

The narrator is really excellent when he's using his American accent, but his South African accents are absolutely terrible. I admit that he did get a bit better towards the end, but generally he was so way off the mark with accents. Afrikaans farmers sounded like Russian caricatures, and English speaking Saffers sounded like inebriated Australians. As for Nadia... I honestly have no idea where that accent came from.

I put up with the shocking accents because I wanted to hear the story, but the whole experience would have been so much better if they'd just used South African narrator/s.

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Formulaic and boring

Revisado: 03-14-21

Unfortunately the content of this book is really boring. Coupled with the mechanical style of narration, the book is just... well, bad. There are also dozens of proofreading errors and grammatical mistakes, which really means that the book is not at all useful or memorable.

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Refreshing change from the usual

Revisado: 02-23-21

I really enjoyed the book. Not because it is well written (which it is), and not because it's well narrated (which it also is), but because it was such a pleasant departure from the usual stories out there.

The average zombie novel seems to take place somewhere in the USA, involves initial ghastly zombie gore and torn limbs, ripped up babies etc. Then, when the gore and guts of zombie war becomes tiring, they descend into man-on-man depravity and violence and stop being zombie novels, focusing on small groups of survivors fighting against other groups. Don't get me wrong, I like these stories, but this one was deeper, more intelligent, and probably more in line with what would actually happen in a zombie apocalypse.

This story is, in many ways, very similar to World War Z by Max Brooks, and there are several small nods to the brilliant work by Brooks. I loved that it could dovetail with another novel, but still stand out in its own right.

Maybe, just maybe, humans as a species won't become hateful, power hungry, rampaging, raping cannibals and maybe, just maybe, the world CAN be rebuilt in the best way humans can?

I am always on the search for zombie books that don't take place in the USA, and I was delighted to find this one and read it.

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Good narrator but terrible accents

Revisado: 02-21-21

The story is well written but is let down by the abysmally bad South African accents used by the narrator. White South Africans sound like a mix of Australian and British with a vague parody of an Afrikaans politician, and black South Africans sound like a poor impersonation of a west African accent.

Greg Tremblay is a very good narrator when he used his normal accent, and he clearly tried hard to get the sense of the character, but his accent skills let him down. Why not get a real South Africans to narrate the accents?

I loved the idea of reading a book that takes place in my home town, but I felt a bit let down that it didn’t really say much about Johannesburg. It could actually have been set in pretty much any city.

I’ve bought the rest of the series because I enjoyed the story... I’ll just have to grit my teeth when I hear the accents.

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Repetitive, time wasting, with little substanse

Revisado: 01-22-18

The book is full of repeated information because the author really doesn't have much to say, but needed to fill space. For example, he repeats lists of personality types dozens of times during the book. I found myself skipping ahead throughout the book trying to find anything worth listening to.

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Very entertaining

Revisado: 01-07-17

Characters are developing nicely from the first book and I'm starting to like them more and more.

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Brilliantly written and performed

Revisado: 01-06-17

Gripping and terrifying but with just the right amount of humor. Characters are vivid and believable.

The performance is excellent and this book will keep you enthralled from start to finish.

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Really not worth the read

Revisado: 01-25-14

It's not TERRIBLE, but neither is it engaging or exciting. The character development is weak, the story line lacks the urgency and terror of a good zombie novel. By the end of the book I felt disappointed by the formulaic plot, and the uninspired narration. I found my mind wandering to other things while listening to this book, which never happens in a truly well written, gripping book.

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Predictable

Revisado: 02-06-13

I'm afraid that this book is the same as all books that I've read by Dan Brown. The book is written for the dumbed down masses, and assumes that the reader has hardly ever read anything before, has virtually no general knowledge, and won't see through the flimsiest of plots.

This book is, to literature, what Ryan Seacrest is to music, or what Paris Hilton is to feminism.

It's not a "bad" story per se, but it lacks imagination and is highly predictable. The performance however, is very good indeed.

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