The Dead Road

A Novel

De: Seth Patrick

Narrado por: Ari Fliakos

The third in Seth Patrick's genre-bending audiobook trilogy, following Reviver and Lost Souls, delivers chilling twists as a forensic detective revives the dead to exhume a world-changing conspiracy.

Opening with The Reviver and continuing in Lost Souls, this genre-bending audiobook series has been described as CSI meets The Sixth Sense. The trilogy takes place in our world but with a chilling twist: Certain people have the ability to wake the recently dead for testimony that is accepted in courts worldwide. The use of these so-called Revivers has long been a routine part of police investigation. But things are changing.... Something vast and dangerous is hiding in the dark, just waiting to wreak havoc on our world. The Dead Road is where it all comes to an end - maybe literally.

©2017 Seth Patrick (P)2017 Macmillan Audio

Good book

That could have been great had there been a resolution to the plot but the ending ruined the entire book for me.

wonderful book series, great thriller.

this is one of the best series I have read or heard of in a very long time. great job everyone.

pretty good

I was a little disappointed! This one didn't reel me in as much as the previous two.

Spoiler alert writer slams door on this souffle

Entertaining action/supernatural series ends by flattening denouement and epilogue with negative philosophical slant on human-nature.

Climax never happened

I loved the hook of this series—grief, memory, and “revival” used like forensics—but The Dead Road drifts from grounded thriller into something vague and apocalyptic. Huge chunks of the book are people hiding in tunnels while the solar panels, batteries, and generator get wrecked, and the sabotage never adds up to a clear plan. It feels like I’m being pushed past set pieces instead of watching cause and effect.

The character work slips, too. Jonah’s big moral stands don’t feel earned, the main villain’s personal vendetta with him comes out of nowhere, and side characters (Tess, Never, Sly, even Larry) are mentioned more than they matter. Loyalty is told, not shown.

What really stung is the world-building going quiet right when it should get loud. Why is Jonah special? How could Annabelle’s father linger? What are these “entities,” beyond spooky vibes? Instead of answers, we get a late, near-mystical summoning that wipes the board, followed by a strange exorcism tour that plays like side quests.

The narrator does a good job and a few scenes land, but the trilogy never cashes the check written by book one. If you loved Reviver, honestly, consider treating it as a standalone.