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When I was 13, he stole my heart. When I was 18, he took my innocence. When I was 23, he said he would love me forever. When I was 28, he broke my heart. Now I'm 33... and there's a knock at the door. He's back, again. And this time he's not alone.
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Awful!
- By Susanf on 07-21-18
By: Jaxson Kidman, and others
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What Zombies Fear 1: A Father's Quest
- By: Kirk Allmond, Laura Bretz
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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When Victor Tookes went to work that beautiful spring day, he never expected to see a man eaten alive in the street in front of his office. After convincing himself that they really were zombies, he makes a trip from his house in Pennsylvania to his family home in Virginia, battling zombies all the way. His three and a half year old son was bitten on the leg, but doesn't turn into a zombie. Instead, he turns into something more than human.
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Avoid This If You Like Good Writing
- By Adrienne on 10-08-14
By: Kirk Allmond, and others
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Allison Hewitt Is Trapped
- A Zombie Novel
- By: Madeleine Roux
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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One woman's story as she blogs about - and fights back against - the zombie apocalypse.
Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help through her blog, writing on her laptop. It may also be her only chance to reach her mother. But as the reality of their situation sinks in, Allison's blog becomes a harrowing account of her edge-of-the-seat adventures.
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lots of potential but disappointing
- By Linda B on 04-29-11
By: Madeleine Roux
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Loving Day
- By: Mat Johnson
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- By Itinerant T on 08-26-15
By: Mat Johnson
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Slim to None
- Cedar Tree Series
- By: Freya Barker
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Noel Harrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Investigator Gus Flemming is hot on the trail of a bail skip with organized crime connections that bring him to Cedar Tree. Once there, the focus of his investigation lands squarely on the gently rounded shoulders of a vivacious red haired Emma, whose physical limitations have done nothing to dampen her zest for life.
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Not miss this great listen
- By Demetra Toula Iliopoulos on 06-02-18
By: Freya Barker
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The First Days
- As the World Dies, Book 1
- By: Rhiannon Frater
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's stepson, Jason, from an infected campground.
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Not for my demographic
- By Garth on 02-08-12
By: Rhiannon Frater
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Bodyguard
- By: Suzanne Brockmann
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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When Alessandra Lamont is nearly blown to pieces in a mafia hit, the last thing she wants is to place her trust into the hands of sexy, loose-cannon federal agent Harry O'Dell, who'll do whatever it takes to bring the mob down - even if it means sticking like glue to this blonde bombshell who unwittingly married into it. She needs him if she wants to stay alive, and he needs her if he is to exact his revenge for the death of his wife and son.
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Excellent narration
- By SassiKassi on 05-18-10
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No Time for Goodbye
- By: Linwood Barclay
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to find herself alone. Her family - mother, father, and brother - had vanished without a word, without a note, without a trace. Twenty-five years later, Cynthia is still looking for answers. Now she is about to learn the devastating truth.
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No Time for Goodbye gets 5*s all around
- By shelley on 06-25-14
By: Linwood Barclay
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The Death
- A Post Apocalyptic Novel
- By: John W. Vance
- Narrated by: Guy Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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The Death will find you... Devin Chase was just living his life, when the world changed in an instant. In the matter of a week a deadly virus known as The Death ravages the world killing over 90% of those infected. After six months in a self-imposed quarantine, he emerges into a new world. As he travels, he discovers others like him who are immune, but he also discovers that the world he knew is gone. It has been replaced with a savage and brutal one where the only rule is kill or be killed.
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Unintentionally hilarious!
- By Steve Welch on 06-18-15
By: John W. Vance
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Still Missing
- By: Chevy Stevens
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.
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A singular voice; a horrendous story.
- By Richard Delman on 01-21-12
By: Chevy Stevens
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Raising Stony Mayhall
- By: Daryl Gregory
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman's arms is a baby - stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda, and he begins to move.The family hides the child - whom they name Stony - rather than turn him over to authorities who would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow....
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You'll wish you lived as much as this undead boy
- By Maryland on 10-27-11
By: Daryl Gregory
What listeners say about Benton: A Zombie Novel: Volume One
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- Midwestbonsai
- 08-17-15
a straightforward post-apocalyptic journey
If you are a fan of television shows like The Vampire Diaries, Dawson’s Creek, or movies like Mean Girls or Twilight… you’re probably going to love Benton: A Zombie Novel volume one by Jolie Du Pre . Perhaps even more so because it’s a short listen at just about two and a half hours.
Benton is advertised as a young adult dystopian novel so I went into the listening of it as such. The story’s protagonist is a teenaged girl from Illinois named Jennifer Benton who is the daughter of a survivalist. When the story begins her family has been devoured by the dead, and she must leave home and find shelter, food and safety on her own. The first book in the series chronicles her early struggles with that journey, and her chance encounter with a group of teenaged survivors that she joins.
In terms of plot and execution Benton is a fine book. While the story doesn’t go anywhere unexpected, it doesn’t disappoint as a result. It’s a straightforward post-apocalyptic journey with all the troubles and trials you’d expect. There are jerk survivors, jerk zombies, a little bit of guns and gore, and difficult decisions being made as the group gets strong-armed by a member into a trip south to warmer Texas for safety and to reunite with friends and family, despite the odds of making it there.
I did find the language of the book to be a little troubling in the light that it is supposed to be young adult. There were well over a dozen uses of the f-bomb, as well as many other sections of crude language as well as a very strangely placed oral sex encounter later in the story that felt… shall we say inserted… to play on the romantic notions of teenaged readers. If you’re a parent with a teen that wants to read this book, be advised the language and sex felt much more mature to me. Closer to the 16-19 age range than the 13-15 year olds. I wasn’t impressed with how the relationship was portrayed (think; silly crush for shallow reasons that turns sexual quickly), but then again I’m not a teenaged girl trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.
The characters are decently portrayed, the dialogue is suitable for the most part, and the book is reasonably well done.
The prose is very easy to read and arguably has been written too simply to inspire. Adjectives are plain and the action scenes especially suffer. There are frequent exchanges like; “I shot the zombie. It fell.” Not much to inspire the imagination in terms of descriptive text. It felt to me as I listened to be a book written in the zombie genre to try and capture the Twilight audience.
If you’re looking for light post-apocalyptic fare that plays it a bit safe on the gore and is suitable for later-year teenagers, Benton is a fine choice.
Having said that the recording by Angie Hickman is excellent. She uses considerable talent to bounce between characters and bring life to the book and reads at a rather quick pace that felt easy to follow, and should easily grab the attention of younger and older readers alike. I’ll be looking forward to her reading other stories, and I’m looking forward to listening to her narrate Benton’s second volume.
Audiobook provided for review by the author.
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- jami
- 10-25-14
A decent zombie story
Where does Benton: A Zombie Novel rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It's a quick listen, with mild gore and some interesting characters. Definitely not as deep as many of the other zombie books I have listened to, but it was still enjoyable. There are many different characters with different motives all tossed together and it works.
Which character – as performed by Angie Hickman – was your favorite?
Angie Hickman did a good job with different voices, and made the annoying character have an annoying voice. Is it wrong to want a character to die because you don't like the voice? Since Katie has a tendency to freeze up, I don't see her lasting all that long in a future book.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I did listen to it in one sitting, multiple times.
Any additional comments?
This audio book was provided by the author for an honest review.
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- Romance Authors That Rock
- 10-17-14
rough
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I felt that certain scenes just did not fit in and were poorly timed. Okay we are running from zombies and are teens but we are going to fall in love in a week and we are going to have sex out of nowhere.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
honestly nothing stands out to me on either side.
What three words best describe Angie Hickman’s performance?
just okay.
Could you see Benton: A Zombie Novel being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
No.
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- Lindsey Armstrong
- 10-08-14
Benton: A Zombie Novel
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. this was a good story and the first audio book I have listened too. I was able to just close my eyes and listen to the story and pictured it all as if I was watcing a movie.
What did you like best about this story?
The consant changing problems that the group always was running into. Zombies every where and trying to find a safe place to stay and not get eaten. You were always waiting for something to go wrong or someone to get taken out b a zombie or their self.
Which character – as performed by Angie Hickman – was your favorite?
It was a toss up between a few. Angie had some interesting voices. This mae it easy to know wat character was speaking.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes. Angie Hickman reading this story so well made it very easy to listen to and she read it at a nice speed that didn't leave you wanting replay someting cause you didn't catch a part of it.
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- James L. Scarlott
- 10-08-14
Benton, VOL 1
If you could sum up Benton: A Zombie Novel in three words, what would they be?
Gripping, intrigue & Romance.
What did you like best about this story?
I Like the character development, The author creates characters that you love or hate almost instantly, good story plot and a goal, also events seemed realistic as they might happen during an apocalyptic event.
What does Angie Hickman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I don't know if i can say Angie Hickman brings anything to the story that I would have missed reading the book, As I did read the book, I am an Avid reader. but I must say absolutely nothing is lost with Angie reading the book she reads at a tone and pace that just feels right. some narrators try to read to fast some are slow, But Angie's pace matches just right with the way the book is written. I would listen to other books read by her she has an easy to listen to voice and yet is clear and concise so that nothing of the meaning of any of the dialogue is lost.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes I actually listened to it twice as the first time I was distracted being the driver for DR visits. so when I got home I finished then restarted and listened in one sitting I can do it in one sitting or broken up by Real Life events but found this more enjoyable in one quiet listen
Any additional comments?
I hope whatever deal Jolie has/had with Angie is good for all the books in the series, I hate when narrators are changed in the middle of a series it just gums up the works
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- Russell Austin Arenz III
- 12-21-17
A Zombie book for 12 year olds
No horrible but obviously not researched or thought out. This is another teenage angst, the zombie apocalypse is such a great matchmaker.
Dr. A
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- Mark
- 01-23-17
Yawn of the Dead
This book has horrible narration and storylines that defy common sense. So much so that I was ashamed to even keep it in my library. I really think a horror loving 10 year old would be critical of this book. The only good thing I can say is that it was short and didn't waste too much of my time. Save your money and time.
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- ♡Louise♡
- 08-02-15
Not a great book for audio format.
The storyline was alright, and the narrator did a pretty good job.
Unfortunately, I found the way the story was written (in the format of the main character "Jennifer" telling this story) was very difficult to listen to.
Way too many pauses for:
<blah blah "he said">
<but, blah "she responded">
<blah! "I said">
<blah blah blah "he said...">
<blah blah "I say">
And so on, and so on...
I think I may have enjoyed it more if I read the book instead of listening.
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- DabOfDarkness
- 06-17-15
More survival story than zombie bash
Set in modern-day small town Illinois, Jennifer Benton must first escape her house. Everyone she knows, including her family, have turned into zombies. She’s been holed up in her room for weeks, with her zombie mother right outside waiting for something living to cross her path. But escape she does and a chance encounter puts her in a closed garage with 7 other folks. Now, they must make a plan for the future as supplies won’t last forever, especially with winter coming on.
This is another fun addition to the zombie genre. Jennifer Benton is easy to connect with and isn’t a silly lass. In fact, she is quite practical and willing to add to her list of skills, zombie killing being at the top. She’s in her early 20s, so she’s past the silly teen stage yet still young enough to know how tender and encompassing love (or lust) can be. And with the handsome Mark around, there is definitely temptation.
While this book does has a romantic plot line to it, there is so much more going on. Primarily, it is a survival story. Can Benton trust everyone in their little group? Probably not, much to everyone’s woe. Then there are the roving bands of other humans to consider. And those pesky zombies. Since many of their group are locals, killing zombies is a bit emotionally draining as they were once friends or family. I am glad the author explored that aspect of it.
There is one sex scene and it is sweet. However, we’re shown how the man will be pleased, and only told how the woman was pleased after the fact. I would have liked a little more equality there as media in general tends to shy away from the female orgasm. I think we all know that more humans would benefit from some instructive fiction in how to obtain a female orgasm.
Overall, this was a great addition to the survival genre with focus on human interactions and trust. It steered away from the gory horror of zombies that many zombies books focus on.
Narration: Angie Hickman was a good choice for Jennifer Benton. She had a young woman’s voice but didn’t sound like a teen. Hickman also had distinct voices for both male and female characters.
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- Jackie Houser
- 04-16-15
fun
Well done great listen! I enjoyed this one it was not overdone! I was given the book free for honest reveiw and i would love to hear more from both the writter and the narrator was top of the line!
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