Feral

De: James DeMonaco, B. K. Evenson

Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Brittany Pressley, Erin Spencer, Jorjeana Marie, Hillary Huber

From James DeMonaco, the writer/director of The Purge film franchise, comes the provocative and terrifying last stand of a lone outpost of women in the wake of a deadly pandemic.

Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen that quickly spread to every male on the planet, killing most. Allie witnessed every man she ever knew be consumed by fearsome symptoms: scorching fevers and internal bleeding, madness and uncontrollable violence. The world crumbled around her. No man was spared, and the few survivors were irrevocably changed. They became disturbingly strong, aggressive, and ferocious. Feral.

Three years later, Allie has joined a group of hardened survivors in an isolated, walled-in encampment. Outside the guarded walls, the ferals roam free and hunt. Allie has been noticing troubling patterns in the ferals' movements, and a disturbing number of new faces in the wild. Something catastrophic is brewing on the horizon, and time is running out. The ferals are coming, and there is no stopping them.

With Feral, writer/director James DeMonaco and acclaimed novelist Brian Evenson have created a challenging and entertaining novel of timely horror and exhilarating suspense.

©2017 James DeMonaco (P)2017 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

" Feral starts out by being creepy. As it moves forward Feral becomes chilling and then turns terrifying. This is definitely - absolutely, positively - a book to be read with all the lights on!" (Robert McCammon, best-selling author of Swan Song and Boy's Life)

"Feral is nasty excitement, a wild, jolting ride from start to finish. Enjoy." (Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist)

"A bloody tale of apocalypse...Told from multiple perspectives, this nail-biter, packed with plenty of gore to satisfy horror fans, offers a neat woman-power twist on the zombie-apocalypse story and a surprisingly poignant, satisfying ending." ( Publishers Weekly)

Good, but not amazing.

This book started off strong and hooked me in immediately, but I was quickly thrown off by the multiple points of view. The switch between first person point of view and third person didn't offer anything to the story and seemed unnecessary. I actually stopped listening for a while in lieu of better narrated books but I came back to this book repeatedly because the premise of the story was interesting and made you want to know what happened.

It's an interesting take on an apocalypse and I was invested in hearing about the ferals, but many of the characters were annoying and juvenile, which is probably the point but it was hard to listen to them make dumb choices over and over and over. The story is very plot driven making some of the choices almost too stupid just to continue the plot instead of being interested in the characters choice.

Overall this story had great potential, and was an okay listen, but it won't be one that I will listen to or read again like I do with my favorites.

It was okay . . .

The story started off much stronger than it ended. The different viewpoints weren't so great, especially when it switched to third person. also, The attempts to show emotion and intensity often fell flat, and it was quite predictable. less than halfway through, It was very clear what was going on and what would happen. Still, as a YA book, it wasn't bad.

A refreshing zombie twist

Overall I enjoyed the story, premise, and characters. All the women were diverse in both personality and motivation, and the visual descriptions were refreshingly straightforward without any of the overtly sexy descriptions you get sometimes, and the depiction of sexual assault was not the sort of voyeuristic shock porn so often seen. The premise as a sex-based virus was done well, but I would've liked to see an exploration of gender identities, even as a passing note. A trans male survivor, for example, might've had a unique experience. But I digress, it was an entertaining novel and I appreciated the ladies who read.

Best book ever!

This book kept me on my toes and made me cry. The love between the two sisters reminded me the love I have for my brothers.

it wasn't groundbreaking but I loved it.

it was a great story and I'd love to see a second book. it left some loose ends and president for a brighter future.

very enjoyable

I recommend this one, plot has been done before, but still a good read. I didn't understand, why there were so many different narrators, but you get use to it. check this one out

Great post apocalyptic tale!

I loved the storytelling, the intensity, and the characters. Really wish this would become a book series!

pretty dang good

I have 780 novels not one did I ever buy that included romance. Not my thing I'm a 39 year old married man. Even though these characters are young it makes you remember your youth and your first love. There are strong female characters which is cool, as a man it's crazy to think about one of the characters and how that would be. overall it's a great book, I'm glad I bought it.

Disappointed

The number of stereotypical tropes in the novel made it untenable to continue listening. The characters were very predictable, as were the internal conflicts between them, making the story appear silly at times. The story was initially engaging (first 4 chapters), the tropes employed quickly robbed it of potential. The performance was engaging, and it was the only reason I was able to listen to it at all.

Meh

I've got to stop reading reviews. Not scary. Just okay. Too similar to Stephen King's Cell