Contagion

Living Dead Series, Book 1

By: L. I. Albemont

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

A small mountain town is isolated by a snowstorm as an ancient evil, gone pandemic, turns the residents into the living dead. Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected.

Stranded by the weather, hiding, a small group of survivors follows the progress of the disease as society around them and around the world begins to break down.

Determined to escape, they find that the normal rules of civilization don't apply anymore. Will they be able to adapt to this strange, hungry new world?

©2011 L. I. Albemont (P)2017 Tantor

Great characters

I really enjoyed this book, I look forward to reading part 2!! this one had me on the edge of my seat! instead of putting me to sleep at night it actually kept me awake all night!

Pretty good story

The story was typical zombie apocalypse but I do enjoy those. The narrator has a grating voice. She made it hard to listen. Hopefully this author will use someone else on the next one.

Normal zombie nook - not particularly outstanding

I was not particularly impressed with any of the characters except perhaps for Charles. The first part where the reporters go into Haiti after the big earthquake and first encounter the zombies was good. Much of the action after that was rather contrived and the characters did some stupid things. Since book 2 is also free from Plus Catalog, I am going to listen to it.

Fine as background listening when doing chores.

Decent characters and plot outline, but pacing was not great (both in the writting and the one note narration) and lack of detail at key moments made a lot of the action really confused.
The interludes where the 'history' of the infection was explored seemed completely pointless. It was like the author was told they had to give a reason for zombies so they just shoved one in. Added nothing to the story.

Not bad but don’t expect much

The writer uses a lot of deus ex machina. Actions, thoughts and decisions by characters feel forced and inconsistent not rooted in a well-developed plot, making the narrative less believable. Why is a DA or lawyer thinking about microbiology and virology which would not be in the character experience to save the story. The time lines are way off and do not follow logically. Mid book the story takes on a Christian lecture used to force the narrative. Lots of exposition dumping chunky writing and a lot of narrative not character driven dialogue or story. Failed the show don’t tell rules. All in all free. Don’t pay for the story! Narrator voice like nails on a chalkboard!