Up From the Depths

Book 1 Denial Measures

De: J.R. Jackson

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Where will you be when the world ends? What will you do to save the lives of people you love? When a genetically modified virus is released to eradicate the disease known as Man, survival is all that matters. In the first book of this epic saga, follow the men of ODA-141, the Outlaws and the SEALs of Shark Platoon in this hard-hitting, real-world look at life before, during, and after an apocalyptic event. With the world now inhabited by crazed cannibals, will their skills, training and experience be enough? This is the way the world ended.

Virtual Voice is terrible.

The story itself is good. It moves at a good clip and is interesting. Virtual voice puts people out of work and detracts from any listening experience.

Not a fan

The AI narration was flat and simple words mispronounced repeatedly.. story wasn't bad for the genre. I'm out of things to say but the app wants a longer review.

Solid plot

Why use AI voice if you don’t fully use AI for what it is? Use it to make characters sound slightly different, should be a breeze all things considered. A human does a better job than an AI, on top of that humans can pronounce words correct when AI cannot as well as use exclamation on words instead of droning out yelled words. Like “Move Move Move!” Anyone who read that knows how it’s supposed to be read, instead you have AI saying like this “move. move. move.” Like what the f man…

Very good story and it will definitely draw you in

This is a very surprisingly good story and it will definitely draw you into it quickly. The writer does so much right to keep your attention with how well the characters are and how the story unfolds. Excellent work from a very creative perspective on this subject and Will definitely be on the lookout for the rest of this series. Only drawback really is the virtual voice has a negative impact on this great story. It's very flat and emotionally as dead as the zombies but even this and how the writer gets a little description overboard at times does NOT slow the pace of this story. will be following this author and looking for more of their work. RECOMMENDED FOR ZOMBIE FANS!!!

Virtual voice defeats the story

Overall I enjoyed the book but the virtual voice really didn’t help the story. The voice was distracting because of the mispronunciation and run on sentences. The story was pretty good and I enjoyed it but the narrator just made it bland.

Please stop using virtual voice

It could have veen really good. Virtual voice made it so hard to listen. Other than that it was good story.

Zombie Apocalypse

Well, I’ve been reading The Tide series by another author. Similar situations and reason for the apocalypse.

However, this author seems to think only men can be scientists, doctors, chemists, knowledgeable about weapons, or being strong in the military.
The few women mentioned are beautiful, prostitutes and great at doing dishes. In other words unimportant and valuable only as support candy. (Oh thank you for being so smart and strong, let me hug you and have the sex with you, so you know you are appreciated.) 🤮🤮

Is this an honest mistake or omission? Doubtful.

The Tide series has some kick ass Doctors, special forces militants, intelligent civilians, and researchers that are women. I much prefer that series.

My favorite genre is apocalyptic, zombies aren’t a requirement. I do read/listen to a LOT of this type of fiction, and this particular series is definitely written for
men. I guess I better continue listening while I’m doing dishes.

Too much going on

I listened to all 10 books in the series and I don't know if it's just me but there is too much going on to really understand and enjoy the books/series. The author had way too many characters and locations for me to follow and remember everyone and every place he had things going on. I also listen to zombie books for the actual zombies, but this series is more about the survivors actions of trying to rebuild then interactions with the zombies and when the zombies do show up it seems like there's a minute of action and then you're right back to what the survivors are doing. It was too much for me to really follow and too much of the military crap, as in nomenclatures of weapons, ships etc. What's the point of focusing on all of that? Tell me they are using an M4 rifle and move on. Also I absolutely cannot stand the computer narration. Pretty sure I don't need to say anything more on that.
If you can listen to the series for free like I did and you just need to pass the time then go for it, but if you need to use your credits for it I wouldn't waste them.

Nothing new

The Ai narrator ruined it for me. This could have been an ok story, and maybe it gets better in the second book but there isn't a compelling reason to continue listening. I only finished it because it helped me fall adlerp.

no more AI narrators

the AI ruined what could have been an engaging story. The monotone reading made following multi person scenes difficult. And the mispronouncing of words drove me crazy.