Lost Valley

By: Walt Browning

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

War has a way of following some people....

John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the 40-acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that.

Now, they have to survive a worldwide pandemic. Taking refuge in a nearby Boy Scout camp, he leads a group of teens and their parents as they are forced to deal with infected creatures that are rapidly consuming the world. Will John and Shrek survive another war, or will this be the end of the line for the SEAL team?

©2019 Walt Browning (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Excellent prequel...

Great addition to the Extinction Cycle story. Lots of action, good character development, and a nice back story to the series.

Awesome

I loved how the animals had voices as well. Couldn’t stop listening to this awesome book.

Good story. Bad narration.

Story is good, but the way the narrator voices women makes them all seem sad and weak. He also WAY over does it when the characters are trying to sound stern. I feel like the story would feel much different reading yourself. Why cant Duke Fontaine narrate every book?!

Great

I thought this book was the best so far cant wait to hear the next one

Great Series

This review is for all four Extinction Survival books. I had never heard of the Extinction books before I came across Lost Valley in the catalog here at Audible. I read/listened to all four books and really liked the series. I then listened to books 1-7 in the parent Extinction Cycle. After learning more about the origins from reading books 1-7, I listened to the 4 Extinction Survival books by Browning again. I would highly recommend these four books. For the most part, I also liked the narrator's performance. I thought his worst performance was book 1 since the over inflection made it seem like people were upset all the time. He improved as the series went on.

If I were to rate the books for kids, I'd probably say 13+. Book 1 has virtually no language at all and I had no worry listening with my kids. Book 2 is more military oriented with more language. It's not hard core, but the F word is somewhat common. Books three and four are closer to book 1 than 2 regarding language. I really hope Walt Browning is able to continue this series. I really liked the characters and the story telling. It feels like there is a lot more story to tell with the survivors.

***Mild Spoilers***
In some ways, I liked this series better before I read Extinction Cycle. Once I read that series, I was confused by some of the discrepancies when compared. For example, the vaccine (whatever it was called) that made the variants no longer contagious prior to Operation Liberty was not present in these books. The variants were always super contagious it seemed throughout the 4 Survival books.

Contact with other groups of military and government groups was also common throughout the Extinction Cycle books. Even with a Navy ship, there was no mention about any other ongoing military coordination or activities in Survival.

Cyclops and his mutated pack seemed to be the only animals that were infected. I would assume that infected animals would be fairly common if it could happen to one species. Also, Cyclops retained a lot of its past memories, at least a lot more than human variants.

The variants in the Extinction Cycle had no issues with swimming.

I may be forgetting some, but I did really enjoy this series (twice) and I'm glad it lead me to the Extinction world. I personally like this series a little better than Extinction Cycle due to how things play out with the main characters throughout the course of the two series.