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  • Phase One Run

  • The Growler Chronicles
  • By: Joseph Sampson
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (54 ratings)

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Phase One Run

By: Joseph Sampson
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

There are three phases to a zombie apocalypse... run... hide...fight. Billy was there right at the beginning when the first victim coughed over their lunch. Amanda was working as a nurse at the E.R. and Samantha was about to meet the cult behind the whole outbreak. Professor Preston, head of the CDC, tried to rally the forces of science, but found himself awaiting his execution in a junkyard.
The list of characters grows as they run, hide, and learn to fight, not just the growlers, but the forces that unleashed them.
The government tried nuking the growlers, but that just spread the infection.
They tried sending in tanks, but the infection got inside.
They tried sending in the marines, now the growlers have body armor.

This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
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Good story and virtual voice wasn’t horrible

I actually enjoyed this book and the only thing I wanted to hate was the virtual voice narration but the voice wasn’t bad. Pleasantly surprised and looking forward to next in the series.

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If you love zombies this book is for you!

Absolutely brilliant. This is for sure the best zombie book I have read in ages,

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virtual voice is terrible

the autogenerated speech is good awful and makes what should be a decent story completely unlistenable.

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Great Story.

The AI wasn’t as bad as some Ive heard. All in all, I really enjoyed this audiobook.

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Good background noise

I think I might start writing these. Relatively predictable satisfactory anthology beginning. Would recommend because I didn’t pay for it outside my normal subscription.

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Enjoyed it

I enjoyed very much listening to the story and learning about the different characters and their stories.

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Amazing start to the series

Overall this is an amazing book. Zombies are my obsession and the author provided an amazing story, multiple characters you learn to love, and hate. Well done!

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I liked It! Quite a bit.

I rated the Overall higher than the Performance and Story because Virtual Voice isn't as good as a narrator. But this one was pretty good AI narraration. The story had a lot of unique aspects but it was a little too far out in one area. But overall it's a pleasurable listen.

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nice concept for a story.

virtual voice takes away from the entire story. it destroys the performance. overall it was a good story.

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Great story, great characters

The virtual voice wasn’t too bad, couple of mispronounced words, but was also passable as a real person.
Aside from the unimaginative plot twist in the story revealing the authors political/social views As if anyone cared.
The rest of the story was great.

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