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A People's History of the Vampire Uprising

Auteur(s): Raymond A. Villareal
Narrateur(s): Jim Meskimen, Christine Lakin, Robert Petkoff, Rena-Marie Villano, full cast
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In this ambitious and wildly original debut - part social-political satire, part international mystery - a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it.

This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine.

Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish. Soon, the US government - and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church - must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world.

With heightened strength and beauty and a steady diet of fresh blood, these changed people, or "Gloamings", rapidly rise to prominence in all aspects of modern society. Soon people are beginning to be "re-created", willingly accepting the risk of death if their bodies can't handle the transformation. As new communities of Gloamings arise, society is divided, and popular Gloaming sites come under threat from a secret terrorist organization. But when a charismatic and wealthy businessman, recently turned, runs for political office - well, all hell breaks loose.

Told from the perspective of key players, including a cynical FBI agent, an audacious campaign manager, and a war veteran turned nurse turned secret operative, A People's History of the Vampire Uprising is an exhilarating, genre-bending debut that is as addictive as the power it describes.

Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Robert Petkoff, Rene-Marie Villano, Jim Meskimen, Ron Butler, Taylor Meskimen, Maxwell Hamilton, Andrew Kishino, Karissa Vacker, and Jeff Bottoms

©2018 Raymond A. Villareal (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Ce que les critiques en disent

"A major document dump - and that's a good thing! We have it all here: a complete oral history of how our world - our species - changed forever. Raymond Villareal's sense of fun is palpable as he plays with legal thrillers; good, old, dogged police work; international intrigue; hard science; dirty politics; and, yes, classic, heart-stopping horror. Somewhere, Dracula himself is sitting up late into the day enjoying the hell out of this." (John Griesemer, author of Signal & Noise and filmmaker of the web series Parmalee)

"Told in the jumbled, frenetic urgency of a discarded case file, this is the history of both a social movement and a vector for disease. Mr. Villareal's vampires are not the ones we find most comforting. They are not seductive or beautiful or tormented anti-heroes. No, they are more terrifying than anything like that, an infection that will spread throughout our body politic, our institutions, our history, and ourselves." (Paul Park, author of The White Tyger and All Those Vanished Engines)

"A wide-ranging, readable thrill ride for fans of the genre.... A spectacularly creepy ecosphere.... A strong contender in the genus of apocalypse fantasy." (Kirkus Reviews)

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WW Z wannabe

Positives:

The narrators were excellent.
The first 25% of the story was okay.

Negatives:

Very bad "copy" of WW Z.
Parts of the story didn't quite mesh with the overall plot.
The title is misleading - there is no real uprising described in the story.
Much like GoT they story just kind ends - it's a bit like the author said "bored now - end story here".

My personal "rule" is if I get through the complete audiobook I keep it so this one stays in my library. Sadly for me I kept hoping it would get better.

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