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  • Written by: Peter Clines
  • Narrated by: Ray Porter
  • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (349 ratings)

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Dead Moon

Written by: Peter Clines
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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Publisher's Summary

Audible number-one best seller Peter Clines returns with a thrilling tale of the creature above - and the deadly threat below. 

In the year 2243, the Moon belongs to the dead. 

The largest graveyard in the solar system, it was the perfect solution to the overcrowding and environmental problems that had plagued mankind for centuries. And the perfect place for Cali Washington to run away from her past. 

But when a mysterious meteor crashes into one of the Moon’s cemeteries, Cali and her fellow Caretakers find themselves surrounded by a terrifying enemy force that outnumbers them more than a thousand to one. An enemy not hindered by the lack of air or warmth or sustenance. 

An enemy that is already dead. 

Now Cali and her compatriots must fight to survive. Because if they don’t, everyone on the Moon may be joining the dead. 

And maybe everyone on Earth, too....

©2019 Peter Clines (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

What the critics say

"Narrator Ray Porter actually catches a break with this gruesome science-fiction audiobook. Much of this thriller's cast is composed of thousands of silent zombies, so Porter doesn't have to differentiate much among them.... But he still shines while bringing to life multinational characters, ably employing distinctive accents and timbres. He really ramps up the tension as a dwindling handful of survivors struggles to save humankind from a chilling threat." (AudioFile Magazine)

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Pretty good once you get past...

Pretty decent book once you drop the notion that it has anything to do with 14 or Fold. Started off slow but once the action got going the book was hard to stop listening to.

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you can skip this one

I really enjoyed the rest of the books in this series, but this one was a definite dud for me. it doesn't add anything to the world the author has built and I found the characters were a touch flat. You can skip this one and not miss anything in the series as a whole.

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Huh

I have binged this series and this last book is weak. The biggest saving grace was the performance of Ray Porter. The story felt rushed and the characters were one dimensional. With a jump into the future this book misses the mark with the previous ones in more ways than one.

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"What's going on out there..."

I seldom write reviews, and thoroughly enjoyed The Fold and 14 but this installment in the Threshold series is an absolute exercise in frustration taken to a whole new extreme. I am two thirds through and will be abandoning this book for a while. Maybe the repetition and predictable outcomes will fade enough so that I can pick it up again. I may or may not return it. As other more detailed reviews have pointed out, the characters are cardboard or ... cannon fodder if you want to be generous.

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A fun listen

I bought this with having read people being upset about it not being a sequel book but being set in the same universe as previous works of Mr. Clines. With that in mind I decided to consider this book an independent work and not try and make it work with other novels story lines.

This book was in fact a great listen. Like many sci-fi books I put my reality hat on the coat rack and sat down and just listened. It has a very good robust cast with interesting back stories that aren't muddying up the main plot. While you could unjustly slim this down as "just zombies on the moon" but its quite unfair. The book does not really have to much added meaning to the "zombies" as any other work does (walking dead for example). It actually uses the creatures more as a prop for other narratives and character building elements that I really enjoyed.

Ray Porter as usual delivered a great performance making the characters even more believable!

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Zombies... But make it lunar

It was a basic "zombies! Can't be. OMG it is. *fights zombies* solves the zombie problem." I loved 14 and thought I would enjoy this one too but nope.

If you like zombies and basic zombie plots, you may like this.

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interesting but underwhelmed

I really wanted to love this, but after the first 2 books in the universe I just couldn't. the plot hinged too heavily on gore, and the storyline didn't take the same twisting turns as the other books. an interesting concept that left me with more questions than answers about the rules of this fictional universe in contrast with what has already been told.

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Sucked me straight in

Fantastic idea for the future. Would like to go to the moon so this works for me as a last resort.

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not a fan of zombie stories.

Not sure how this fits into the Threshold series. Doesn't seem to go with the other 2 books. Narrator is OK, but not my favorite.

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Long time fan saying skip it. Frustrating

Peter Clines is one of my favourite authors of all time, “14” is one of my favourite books of all time so I’m sad to confirm that Dead Moon is not good. Tying it to the other 2 books in the series was not a good idea, but even as a stand-alone story, this is slow, confusing and not a lot of fun. I agree with other reviewers reasons as to why this is the case, but I have to say these really frustrated me:

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I get that the moon is now a tourist attraction but they only have a sheriff and a deputy as security up there? On a station on the moon? I get that we needed the caretakers to become deputies at some point to get access to the station systems but come on. Also no weapons on the station at all? Not even tasers?

No general alarm ever goes off on the station, visitors have to be told there’s an emergency by word of mouth? And those visitors and the station director are dumbed down way too much.

Ray Porter is great as usual but I felt like even he wasn't sure how to define the personalities of the main characters and some of his choices felt wrong.

Finally, why do the main characters (who know what's happening), keep asking: “What’s going on?”, "What?", "Why", as frequently as they do.

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