Green Sunday

By: Ryk Brink

Narrated by: John McLoughlin

Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

When TJ, a small time Internet show host with his head in the clouds, met a strange green-haired girl in his secluded mountain town, he thought his luck was changing. Unfortunately, on her heels was a collection of sociopaths determined to destroy his hometown for the benefit of a deepweb gameshow's cameras.

And everyone in the town is an unwilling contestant.

Forced to live out his fantasies for unseen Internet viewers, TJ must play along so he can kill the bad guys, fight monstrous scientific abominations, get the girl, and save what remains of his burning town. Failing that, at least himself, his mother, and his collection of anime figures.

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Zombies, Mayhem and a Gorgeous Badass!

TJ finds has always wished he was a zombie fighter. Overweight, cowardly, unemployed and living with his yoga mother, the closest he’ll ever come is to produce YouTube videos with a cheap Samurai sword in his backyard. That is until his sleepy little town becomes the heart of a zombie apocalypse created by wealthy voyeurs on the deep web.

Sunday is a 19-year-old super badass with green hair who comes to TJ’s rescue when reality comes to his door. She’s everything he is not and the two make an unlikely team, somehow keeping each other alive during the manufactured apocalypse.

Green Sunday is a satire on the many, many zombie stories. Impossible weapons, evil men on motorcycles, wealthy voyeurs, high-tech, low tech; it’s all there in a mish-mosh of mayhem and cartoon violence.

TJ is a likable character that the listener is hoping will survive, Sunday remains mostly a mystery. The biggest, of course, is why she would choose to ally with such a hapless accomplice. If you like your zombie mayhem ridiculous and laced with satire, you might enjoy this one. The plot is pretty thin and the ending unsatisfying, but you’re paying for the ride on this one.

John McLaughlin performs the novel well. His voice is a pleasure to listen to and his characters are easy to discern. He gets out of the way but moves the story along when the action heats up. Overall, an excellent performance with no complaints. The production quality is top notch as well.

The zombie genre is pretty crowded, so it is fun to listen to one that is at least somewhat different. Green Sunday is irreverent and doesn’t take itself too seriously. There is a lot to like about it, just don’t dig too deep past the two-dimensional characters or logic of it all and you should enjoy the ride.

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I wanted to like i t

The story line is hilarious and the characters are well written and easy to relate to. The narration is absolutely spot on, his voice and tone perfectly fits the story, but this one was a tad too raunchy for me. I just couldn't get into it.
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entertaining

decent story. had to speed up narration
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Zombie Battle Royale? Yes please!

Green Sunday is a bloody fun splatter fest! It’s very easy for zombie genre tropes to go stale, but Ryk Brink has found a fresh new take that fans of the genre will be sure to love. The entire time listening to this, I kept thinking about how it would make one hell of a fun zombie movie.

My only complaint, and it’s very minor, is with the narration for female character voices, but in no way did that affect my enjoyment of the story!

Great fun!

TJ gets caught up in a sick game show where they turn his town into a zombie-like wasteland where those in the dark web can watch people try to survive. Our hapless hero runs across Sunday a badass green hair heroine and the two team up to take on all the evil thrown their way. What ensues is a fun ride full of mayhem crazy scenes and a ton of good tongue in cheek moments. The lead characters are thoroughly enjoyable to accompany and for most of the book, it is a good time. The narration by John McLoughlin is solid throughout and he has a good amount of varied voices and good delivery. If the synopsis sounds fun to you I would definitely recommend checking it out, it is a fun little B-horror story with a solid core duo.

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Different, but in a good way...

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I never let the fact that I was given this book for free effect or sway my opinion in my review. My reviews are always my own opinion and thoughts on the books that I review.***

I liked the basic idea behind this book and the characters were well written. There were some pretty outside the box concepts in play, and I felt compelled to continue reading the story. I really enjoyed the storyline, however, I have an issue with words and phrases being used repetitively. The term "rag doll" or "rag-dolled", for instance, was used over and over to describe a body's reaction to be shot or otherwise damaged. That is extremely distracting to me and affected my enjoyment of the book.

I did enjoy this book. I was hesitant at first cause I am usually a hardcore post-apocalyptic book lover. Usually dealing with zombies or biological warfare type of books.

Set in a semi end of days type setting you have TJ a well developed main character reminiscent of what a good portion of our youth nowadays is like. Kinda geeky, techy clumsy embarrassed around girls and all-around "weird". He is suddenly thrust into a life or death struggle. Dealing with gangs, and a "game". He fumbles through this new life and he meets this mysterious beauty who goes by Sunday. She has green hair and is totally unconventional when it comes to life. The story mainly follows these two as they try to survive in the new brutal world.

I did enjoy this book. The characters are well developed and you start to like them and I even liked some of the villains. I felt that the writing could be a little to "detailed" at times. Taking a long time to say what was going on. Sort of being over descriptive. This aside I do recommend this book.

Campy and quite enjoyable

I really enjoyed this book quite a bit. I need to warn you though, there is quite a bit of violence and profanity. The descriptions of the violence are quite graphic. The ending was a bit of a surprise, but I won’t ruin it for you.

Beverly Hills Ninja meets Zombieland

That's not a very accurate description. I really tried to enjoy this book but it was a slog to get through.

The narrator sounds like he's speaking with a throat full of baby socks. Different parts of the book have different sound quality.

I think this writer has potential. It's fair well written, just not engaging. I would have enjoyed this book much better if I and read it myself without a narrator. Things that were set up did not have a very interesting payoff. I was rooting for this book to surprise me, but in the end I was left with an internal shrug.

not bad

aside from some repetitive language (one more "black ichor" and I wass going to get angry) it was a fun and very different story.
I have not encountered many books where I did not like but was intrigued by almost every character. I wanted to know more. tbjs book was always going places i didnt see. would read more for sure. worth the count.

Entertaining

Great idea for a zombie novel
You follow survivors of a previous real life horror game for the dark web as they try to survive round two
The characters are great and the narrator does a good job with them
If your looking for something different in a zombie story check this out
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