Sick

A Project Eden Thriller

By: Brett Battles

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

For fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, and Michael Crichton comes a new, heart-pounding thriller by Brett Battles.

Daniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. She's had them before. Yet he can't help but worry when she cries out again as he pads down the hallway. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her sitting up in bed, frightened by a nightmare. But the nightmare is his. It's real. And it's just beginning....

Something is burning Ash's daughter alive. Something horrible that is spreading beyond the walls of their home, and taking no prisoners. Thirty seconds later, Ash will discover his daughter isn't the only one in his family infected, and as his world spins, coming apart at the seams, a team of armed men in biohazard suits bursts into his house. But these aren't the good guys. They haven't come to save Ash's family. They've come to separate them, to finish what they started. The problem is, Ash refuses to disappear. He wants only one thing: to find those responsible. Because humanity is on the brink of execution. And man is pulling the trigger.

©2011 Brett Battles (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Like a fever, Sick makes you sweat and keeps you up all night, wondering what the hell is happening. It'll make your heart race like someone shot you with an EpiPen. You think Battles was badass before? He just cranked it up to 500 joules. CLEAR!" (popculturenerd.com)

Good, but not great.

I did like this book, in as much as I finished it. The story was slightly unique, but just never really caught my interest completely. Not sure why. For one thing, I didn't love the narrator. I found myself eagerly anticipating the end. Again, not a bad book, just, for whatever reason, never won me over.

Too long to get to the main point

too many different characters and it took until the last 2-3 chapters to get to the main point/theme. Great idea for a story but looked like the author fizzled out and got lost in killing off people just to bring them all together in a too neat little bow.

skin the long chapters

I skipped the long chapters so I could enjoy the outbreak bits.
I enjoyed those parts.

Riveting

The best narrator I've heard on any of my ebooks. Great story. Had me sitting in my car quite a few times just to hear what is going to happen.

Government Experiment Gone Wrong

This tale falls into the apocalyptic genre of the few attempting to manage the many. Underneath the syfy story, I am sure there is a veiled message about big government corruption and an attempt at world population control. I enjoyed the listen primarily because the author personalized the story around a surviving father looking for his abducted children after thinking they were dead. With the help of an underground organization fighting the good fight against an oppressive evil, the audio moves at a good pace. If this is your cup of tea, enjoy

This virus story is catching...

But it is not deadly.

The start of this book reminded me of Stephen King's The Stand. But the similarity soon was gone. Instead we have a well thought out and exicuted triller mystery. We have a well developed protagonist and several other secondary characters. One found oneself rooting for their survival.

Brett Battles is another of my favorite authors. I have been reading of his Quinn series. This is quite different from that effort which is refreshing. The other books I have read by him were stand alone novels. It will be interesting to see if he can keep the story line relevant and fresh like he has done with Quinn.

MacLeod Andrews performed this marvelously. He sounded quite interested in the story and varied his voice quite well.

On to the next one. After proceeding with some other enjoyable series.

OK at Best

The narration and the story were just barely OK. I won't be looking for more books in this storyline and probably not from this writer,

Great book.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to the sequel that it would seem to require.

Great story, terrible characters

Any additional comments?

Sick is a story of a man fighting for his family while caught up in a conspiracy that goes way beyond what he is ready to comprehend. If anyone has played a pen and paper roleplaying game they would know that when the DM lays out the story and gives the players a mission they are typically assumed to go along with it. When people save Daniel Ash, help him, show him overwhelming proof for things he just nods his head, furrows his brow and then says "You're all crazy, I'm leaving." Then everyone has to drag him back, convince him even more and even then he's hesitant.

Daniel Ash needs to get somewhere. He's told there is a plane on the way to get him there but it won't be here for a few hours. "Well I'm leaving right now!" He says. "It's a thousand miles away." They say. "It will be faster if you wait for the plane."

Daniel Ash is the worst kind of player character. All the NPCs of the story have to constantly drag him along the plot as he waves his hands dismissively at everything. He holds no value in anyone around him even though everyone is going out of their way to help him.

While the story of the epidemic is great and believable, I just can't stand Daniel Ash's character. I was excited for a multi-book series I could get into but unfortunately they don't kill him off in the first book which leads me to believe Ash will be in the next one.

Engaging at moments brought me to the edge of the

Smooth performance brought great visuals captured my attention that's not always easy and held it there to the end