
End Time
The End Time Saga, Book 1
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Narrateur(s):
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Keith Szarabajka
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Auteur(s):
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Daniel Greene
À propos de cet audio
The protests in front of the embassy aren't what they seem....
In the dark, primal jungles of the Congo Basin, something is ravaging the local population. When protests turn violent in front of the US embassy in Kinshasa, only the foreign policy experts paid attention. Civil war erupts, and people rip each other apart in the streets of the African capital.
To avert disaster and preserve its self-image, an overwhelmed State Department dispatches a team of elite counterterrorism agents to bring their besieged people back alive. Mark Steele, a young agent within the division, and his team of gritty operatives are used to trudging through the worst society has to offer, all while operating from the shadows. But Steele's team is plunging headlong into a maelstrom of death so much worse than rebels in the streets.
A highly contagious microbe is spreading unchecked, killing everyone in its wake only to bring them back again as the ravenous undead. Only a lone CDC virologist understands the extent of the outbreak at hand. He cowers among the embassy staff praying for extraction from the hands of death, fearing his part to play in the epidemic.
Follow this harrowing tale of survival, duty, love and horror as the living dead bring the world to its knees. The first installment of an epic series, End Time starts as a slow burn that turns into a breakneck-paced struggle for survival. Greene does an excellent job of depicting individual stories within the larger scope of the global epidemic. Enter the End Time.
©2018 Daniel Greene (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.I enjoyed it enough to read the next in the series.
It was included with my monthly fee but I would have used credits to get it.
This is not "literature" but very good
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Good story good proformance, a good Listen
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The Novel every Dad says they can write
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Unfortunately, the author blows a golden opportunity to deliver a thoughtful ZA tale by penning a klunky wannabe-technothriller with poorly-researched medical jargon. When he finally gets into the challenges pockets of survivors face fending off hordes of Zombies, he fashions a love triangle for some reason.
Greene struggles to avoid overdramatic dialogue, fails at building any tension at all, and can't generate characters worthy of interest (CDC Virologists and Secret Agents aren't even remotely relatable). My mind wandered annoyingly frequently.
Blackstone Audio Inc. compound the errors by casting an uncharacteristically disinterested Keith Szarabajka to read the book (and I mean READ - he sounds like he's just reverse-transcribing a text sitting open on his lap).
Don't get me wrong.. Szarabajka provides professional diction, timbre, and cadence - backed up by creditable technical support - but lacks any emotiveness.. and barely even *tries* to perform any distinctive character voices. He's quite obviously collecting a paycheck.
Altogether, It's appropriate that I got this audiobook included with my subscription as part of the 'Plus' initiative. 'End Time' merits a genuinely disappointing 2.5/10-stars.
If you can likewise get it for "free", it's not a crazy way to spend a couple of quiet afternoons, I guess.. but your Credit is spent better elsewhere should they ask you for one.
Yuck
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