The Last Survivors

A Dystopian Society in a Post Apocalyptic World

By: Bobby Adair, T.W. Piperbrook

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Survival in Man’s Second Dark Age

Three hundred years after the fall of society, the last fragments of civilization are clinging to life, living in the ruins of the ancient cities in nearly-medieval conditions. Technology has been reduced to legend, monsters roam the forests, and fear reigns supreme. But that is just the beginning...

The wind-borne spores are spreading, disfiguring men and twisting their minds, turning them into creatures that threaten to destroy the townships. Among the townsfolk, political and the religious, dissension is spreading.

Through it all, a mother must protect her son...

©2014 Bobby Adair & T.W. Piperbrook (P)2014 Bobby Adair & T.W. Piperbrook

I feel like this is the first part of one book.

I love the narrator. I am unhappy with the authors spitting this book up. it feels like a cheap soap opera ending. Leaving me feeling unsatisfied.

Fresh look at a post apocalyptic world

I really enjoyed this book. It had good pacing and the narration was excellent. it is shorter than other books I am used to but the story continues over for other books. it ends on a cliffhanger, but at the moment, Amazon has a great deal to buy the rest of the kindle books in a bundle with audio narrations for a great price.
It sort of reminds me of The Passage By David Croning, but mercifully, it stay in one time period and with far less characters to keep track of.

One story

I have listened to the first two books of this series and I enjoy them. Except I feel they are telling one story over a number of books. They have a cliffhanger at the end of both books which helps the listener get into the next book but I expect some part of the story to resolve at the end of each book as well. It feels like the authors decided they have written enough for a book, found an exciting spot and sent it in to the publisher.

terrible lisp

I hate to sound like a jerk, but the narrators wood teeth lisp really killed this for me.

HOUSE OF BARREN WOMEN

WOMEN LIE AND MEN DO NOT
Let's get something straight, the rating is not low because of the treatment of women. These were the only two quotes that stuck out to me. The best part of the book is the universe these two have created. It is a bit different, I even like the infected. It is based on a real disease that inflicts insects in, I believe South America. I saw a special on one of the nature channels once and they showed these ants go crazy, become physically deformed and then what looks like a painful death. I found the book very slow. Very little happens, the whole books is a set-up for the series. They spend a lot of time telling us things, little time doing anything. As another reviewer mentions the infected are just background. This had more of a feel of The Handmaid's Tale, than a Zombie book. The whole book takes place over three days. We are told women strip in front of the whole town and are felt up in front of the whole town and we are told that it is humiliating. We don't actually live through it as a woman.

My mind wondered often and I never really felt much empathy for any of the characters and there were no WOW moments. I will not continue the series.