Enduring Armageddon

De: Brian Parker

Narrado por: James Amherst

The world as we know it is destroyed when a regional conflict spins out of control, pulling other nations into the war. Most major population centers are vaporized in the ensuing chaos, throwing millions of tons of dirt and ash into the atmosphere to block out the sun and create a nuclear winter.

A new age of lawlessness begins. The void created by the destruction of our central government is filled by local warlords who struggle against each other to provide resources for their people. These clashes threaten to destroy the last vestiges of humanity as the basic needs of food, water, and shelter take precedence over everything else.

From the ruins of the irradiated wastes emerge the bloodthirsty scavengers and a dangerous new breed of creature known as the Changed, who are intent on the annihilation of the human race.

A small group of survivors from Illinois attempts to escape further south away from the deepening cold and increasing anarchy. Along the way, they discover that the true monsters are not the mutants of the wastes; instead the enemy that they must fear the most is their fellow man.

©2015 Brian Parker (P)2019 Phalanx Press

Nice Take on the Nuclear Zombie Genre

Interesting characters, a fast moving story line and some new twists give new life to the over saturated zombie genre. The author doesn't shy away from some of the nasty things that will probably happen in a post collapse world, but doesn't linger on them either. The story follows the survival progression of an unprepared couple as they blunder through nuclear war, zombies and nasty survivors. Pretty much every post apocalyptic group or scenario is encountered, but nicely handled with good writing and new twists.
James Amherst does a good job of narrating a lot of characters with no distracting mannerisms or accents.
I was given this free audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Great Story

Refreshing take on the zombie nuclear apocalypse genre.

Narration was excellent, characters had unique voices.

"This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."

Different

A good apocalyptic tale. A man that was an financial advisor, no preppier skills helps a group survive after a nuclear attack. Moves through time quickly, not a day to day survival tale. New take on “zombie” type creatures and the physical aftermath to on humans who survive the nuclear fallout. Nuclear winter and the normal evil groups building their kingdom. Some pretty gory parts but a good listen. Wondering if they’ll be a second book. Hope so. Kinda like Chuck.

Torn on review

I’m torn on this review. Overall, I liked the storyline, but I don’t particularly care for how it was written and the conversation didn’t always seem realistic. Also, I don’t think the reader/performer helped that. The way he read almost made it sound like he was doing a satire.
I couldn’t decide whether to rate this a 3 or 4, but went with a 4 because (aside from a few eye rolls) I was mostly entertained.

A Fantastic Journey

Enduring Armageddon is a fantastic journey through a post nuclear Armageddon America, centering around a regular "desk job" couple, Chuck and Rebecca, who find themselves having to adapt to a harsh world. The book tells a great tale and has several distinct story phases, and it carries out a nice story arc at each stage, rather than meandering and dragging on and just escalating the one scenario, as many series do. Each phase could have in itself been told as a separate novel, but the story covers so much ground. It was also great that although the author was a veteran, he was writing this story from the perspective of a civilian couple, with no experience or affinity to violence or weapons. And the whole personal journey, of Chuck in particular, was just fantastic.

The scenario itself is also great - there are not that many nuclear war stories, compared to other apocalypse genres, and I like how the author also had the idea of a virus type crazies in the mix - although as vulnerable as a regular human.

I did get this book as a free review copy for an unbiased review, but I now have the author on my wish list for his other titles. I have no issue recommending this book to anyone.

This book also appears to (surprisingly) be the debut narration of James Amherst. I am actually surprised of that, as it was so smooth, professional, and easy to listen to, I thought he must have been a veteran narrator.

Well recommended.