Flu: Flu Series, Book 1

"A few parallel story lines"

And not one of them is original in the least.
When I read reviews on Amazon, I expected something more, something extraordinary....

There are lots of reviews with flying colors, but there is nothing original or special in this book.

This book is just a report of people's actions. A typical "Zombie" Genre "book clone"

PS
The Best Post-apocalyptic Zombie Book is "World War Z"
and if you prefer interesting Zombie Book without Apocalypse,
try "Patient Zero" Joe Ledger book 1

Well, I can hope all I want and not get what I want. Flu: Flu Series, Book 1 is definitely of the psychological zombie thriller variety. While this may not be what I was expecting I was able, after about 3 1/2 hours to get into the storyline. I have found that most zombie stories are the same virus infection, wide spread panic, complete anarchy, survivors trying to survive, the military up to something. But what is different between then all are the details of how the author tries to make their story different enough to stand on its own. The one major difference I found with this audiobook was that one doesn’t have to be bitten by a zombie or die, bit one can just become a zombie spontaneously. Sure not a lot happened in Flu: Flu Series, Book 1, as stated by other reviews, but it seems to me that Simmons is setting up for an even better second book and/or series and I will definitely be on board and not be bored.

Michael Kramer I found is one of the deep voiced, super polished voice-over narrators that I wrote about in my previous review of Timothy. One thing that bothered about Kramer’s narration was that the story takes place in Ireland and usually, in my experience of listening to many audiobooks, the narrator will narrate with at least an accent, good or bad, of the people that live in the area. Kramer chose not to do this and the only time he used an accent was with the dialog of the characters that ended up mostly sounding the same. Kramer all read almost entirely at one speed no matter what was happening within the story and this, to me, can detract from the overall encapsulation of the audiobook experience.

Nope

None of the characters were interesting or believable. He gave me no reason to care about any of them.

I wanted them all to be eaten by the zombies in the end.

I stopped listening when I realized that I wanted all the characters to just die already. I was rooting for the zombies. Ugh.

The zombies-in-Ireland theme is pretty cool, but the execution was atrocious.

I've never read anything by Wayne Simmons before, however, after struggling to get 1/4 through this book, and finally giving up, I don't think I'll ever read anything by him again. I finally just gave up and called it unreadable.

I've yet to figure out who the main char. is, or what the story is about - it starts off as a typical Zombie story, people turning undead, then wanders off into some girl that's being held captive by some guy. From there it only got worse.

Such a slow story line. Lots of standing around and talking but no action in this book...