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White Flag of the Dead: White Flag of the Dead, Book 1

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White Flag of the Dead: White Flag of the Dead, Book 1

Written by: Joseph Talluto
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
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Millions died when the Enillo Virus swept the earth. Millions more were lost when the victims of the plague refused to stay dead, instead rising to slaughter and feed on those left alive. For survivors like John Talon and his son Jake, they are faced with a choice: Do they submit to the dead, raising the white flag of surrender? Or do they find the will to fight, to try and hang on to the last shreds of humanity?

©2012 Joseph Talluto (P)2016 Tantor Fiction Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Scary Zombie
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This narration was enjoyable. His voice is a pleasing voice that went well with the story. Which by the way was a change to similar story lines. I enjoyed getting to know the main character and his child.

Nice voice

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Honestly, I had no expectations on this, but reading through it and just riding it out
it turned out really good 👍

**No need for character development**

Zombie type stories are all random and depend on the survival of the person's and how they came to be. It's just a good or bad story that's it.

Really good read

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The story has great action and doesn't get bogged down with random thoughts and unnecessarily complicated emotional tangents from each character.
I'll be looking for more work from both the author and the narrator.

Satisfying and action packed.

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I kept waiting for this Joseph Talluto ZA story to get better.. but it never did. Schoolteacher/Principal 'John Talon' - protecting infant son 'Jacob' - walls himself up in his home and takes advantage of the dozens of pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, and carbines that he has hoarded to kill off half-eaten infected neighbors as they shamble about in search of prey and wandering out to murder roving rape gangs/rescue kidnapped sex slave toddlers. He then loads his baby into a bicycle trailer and makes his way across a chaotic hellscape in search of.. what?.. we never find out. He ends up leading a ragtag group of survivors holed up in an abandoned school.
The book is so aimless, so amateurishly written, so focused on infected babies & evil teenagers, so burdened with clichés, and so fed by gun-nut rhetoric that I couldn't set aside logic and just enjoy the ride. You see, I *like* Zombie Fiction. Yes, the whole premise is hilariously implausible and the genre has become pretty formulaic.. but the idea of friends & loved ones turning into cannibalistic undead and society collapsing into every-man-for-himself anarchy feeds my introverted misanthropic side nicely.. plus the blood-soaked imagery of people eaten alive + heads exploding with bullets/smashed by hammers/split by tomahawks tickles my "gross.. cool" proclivities.
Talluto admittedly offers gore & tropes aplenty in this book.. but others do it so much better.

As to presentation: Reader Graham Halstead is an "average" narrator. To be certain, he's solidly professional (and his baritone timbre is most enjoyable for hours of listening).. but Tantor Audio Inc. could have cast anyone else from their stable of audiobook performers and gotten similar results.

In toto, 'White Flag Of The Dead' is worthy of 3 stars out of 10. Within a nearly-exhausted genre, Talluto offers nothing new - he's annoyingly derivative. Even for free, this book was a tough one to get through. If you pay a Credit for it, you're an idiot.

[Note: I quite liked the imagery of house after house with mailboxes draped in white towels - signaling "Beware. We have infected here."]

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This book was quite disappointing. The story could have been good, but there was absolutely zero character development, so no bonds with the characters were ever made. The protagonist got together at the very end with a woman (can't even remember her name), and I didn't even care. Won't be reading the next ones.

No Character Development

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