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Screaming Eagles
- The Front, Book 1
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- Tracy P.
- 12-04-18
Screaming Eagles Flies High!!
Phenomenal! The compilation of these three exceptional authors ( Long, Moody & DiLouie- who each have more than a few must listen books written individually) is amazing! “Screaming Eagles” Book #1 of this ( The Front) series was like no other book I have encountered in the Zombie genre, and can only say it was electric!
American soldiers coming up against super Zombified German Soldiers?!?!
Oh Yaaay!!! Couldn’t ask for more with the superb character development, extremely intelligent and witty plot, plus the amazing action all throughout!
This first book of the series, is a standout of standouts, and I must tell anyone who will listen, reads my reviews, etcetera... ‘this book is a must read and/or listen, and you do not know what you are missing until you give it a go! #Hooked!
Sending countless cheers and accolades to authors: Timothy W. Long, David Moody, and Craig DiLouie.
Narrator, Tom Menesses brings this story to life with his Supreme narrative talents behind the mic, and what a killer job he did!!!
Onto book #2 “Red Devils” of this, The Front Series.
Hope book #3 “Berlin or Bust” ( currently available on Kindle) becomes available on audible pronto.
These are the exact types of books which are especially amazing on audio!
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- ericmadden
- 06-24-16
It's is fun and it's like nazi zombies
Are you going to make next book can it be in paperback. I like ww2 books
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- Brian
- 04-18-16
They thought they understood their enemy…
World War II — being in the trenches and fighting off the German soldiers was bad enough. What would happen if the SS/Nazi’s came up with a new drug that made their soldiers almost unstoppable? This is a story about that.
Todd Menesses narrates this story and absolutely crushes it. He has an awesome history channel-like voice that really brings this story alive. His performance (and yes, it truly was a performance) was perfect — voicing different characters from different areas in perfect dialects. Menesses will definitely be a narrator that I will be looking for when I’m buying my next audiobook.
I’m a big history buff, I love studying the different wars and different time periods to figure out what life was like or what battle could have felt like. I feel like Screaming Eagles really pulls off the feeling of “being there” in the trenches of World War II. Granted there is a lot more going on than actually happened during the war, but that makes it an even better story.
Knowing that the SS were experimenting with drugs during this time makes this story even more believable. There were a couple times that I actually wondered if something similar to this actually happened.
The pacing of the story was awesome, the reader is thrown from person to person and story to story throughout the book. As soon as you feel comfortable it changes to someone else — giving the story a multi-faceted look from many different points of view.
Screaming Eagles was a hell of a book — told like a true story during WWII — it was so realistic I felt like I was really there with these men. I will definitely be looking forward to the next books in this series and I really hope that Menesses narrates those as well.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 08-06-17
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
THEY HAD TO DIE
A good concept is one thing, putting it on paper or audio another. The first time I saw this, I said I got to have it. Nazi's and Zombies, are my two favorite monsters. Alas, the writing was just not there. I had enjoyed SUFFER THE CHILDREN by DiLouie, so I took a chance, even though I am always leery of collaborations. Matter of fact this is the second collaboration, DiLouie has tricked me into buying.
Cliché
I think the authors were having a contest on who could insert the most amount of war clichés in this book. That would not have been that bad or that unrealistic. My father is close to that generation, (Korean War) and so was my Father in law. Both were in the Navy and in real life, they had a tendency to speak in clichés. These authors missed the boat on not having enough Mad Nazi Scientist stuff. This could have been so much more, but wasn't. Meh, Meh, Meh.
Narrator had a great voice for this type of book. I would not want him to read Little House on The Prairie, but this was right up his alley.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-14-16
Love the history feel of it!
Would you listen to Screaming Eagles again? Why?
Yes it felt like it was a documentary story!
What did you like best about this story?
The way it changed perspectives from soldier to soldier and the fact that history shows the Nazi's were working on stimulant drugs for troops to make them better makes it really feel like a documentary tale.
What does Todd Menesses bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Love the way he give the regional accents to each of the soldiers, you get the feel that there are many different people voicing them. Also thought the subdued narration helped in giving it that History channel feel.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, kept wanting to see how it would turn out can't waif for the next one!
Any additional comments?
Hopefully the next one will be out soon this one ended and left me wanting for more.
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- Leslie F.
- 06-26-16
Edge-of-your-seat exciting
This was a really exciting book. I wasn't sure I was going to like it when I learned of the zombie aspect of the book, as that is not typically what I enjoy reading about. But this book was really well-written, so it seemed totally plausible (Nazi experiment). I listened to the Audible audio version of this book narrated by Todd Menesses, and I was really impressed with his ability to get such distinct and unique voices to each of the characters. His capacity for different accents was really impressive. I don't normally listen to audio books more than once, but I would actually listen to this one again just because it moves so quickly and is filled with excitement. I'm really looking forward to the next book in this series.
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- timothy
- 12-18-20
Bad writing and not helped by narrator.
I really wanted to like this book. I'd been looking forward to it since I discovered Submerged and Armor. It is just short of awful. I'm not sure why Craig DiLouie had his name on this book as it didn't seem like his writing style at all.
The writing is just bad. Half of the book reads like this. "This sucks" Bob said. "you can say that again" Frank said. "It sure does" Bill said. If you made this into a drinking game where you had to drink every time the narrator spoke the words, "so and so said", you would be hammered drunk by the end of the first chapter.
The narrator had lots of great voices but at times they seemed comical, I kept thinking of the soldiers from the movie Small Soldiers.
For some reason the narrator would drop a voice octive and draw out the last word of a sentence seemingly for dramatic effect but for no reason.
For example, "he could pick out a few German words here.....(lower voice and drawn out) and theeeeeeerrrrrre". What???
I'm not entirely sure what even happened in the book. The only way I was able to finish it was because I increased the narration speed to 1.5x.
Don't waste your time.
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- Midwestbonsai
- 05-17-16
the backstories were the saving grace
I picked this story for a couple of reasons: I wanted and fairly short read, as a filler between some new releases to which I was looking forward, and, well, zombies. Reading the summary and seeing the cover, I expected epic battles between American soldiers and German Nazi zombies, and honestly, not much else; I was wrong.
It's the height of World War II and a German Sergeant and his men are ordered to take an experimental drug that will give them extra strength, and even keep them from feeling pain. Meanwhile, American soldiers are hunkered down in fox holes dodging mortars. Low on ammunition, outnumbered, and with little reinforcements, they feared the worst. No matter how many Nazis they took out, two more seemed to take their place. Things go from bad to worse as the Nazis seem to be going crazy, displaying baffling tactics, and forcing some unlikely yet necessary alliances.
This was not a very exciting book. As I said, I was expecting a face-paced, action-packed zombie battle. Instead, the story developed rather slowly and almost lost my interest. It's saving grace was the authors addition of backstories to the main characters. There are several character points-of-view in this book, and the author added some depth to them with background of their past, or who they're hoping to come home to, etc. Character development is a big deal for me; I am much less concerned with what the characters are doing than I am why they are doing it. So, while some of the soldiers' stories were somewhat cliche, they humanized the men, making me care about what happened to them, and helping the rather dull plot become interesting.
Narration duties were done by Todd Menesses, who didn't seem to enjoy the book much. I've heard his narration on another book and was not disappointed but his reading as the narrator of the tale was not very enthusiastic, and somewhat dull in itself. I feel he read at too slow of a pace, and trailed off at the end of each sentence as if it were the end of a chapter with a cliffhanger. His voice is great, though, and his character voices were awesome and unique to one-another, making it easy to differentiate between the each one.
While I enjoyed Screaming Eagles, it is not a book aimed at multiple markets. It's for zombie fans, maybe the adventurous historical fiction enthusiast. The production quality was very good and, even with his unenthusiastic reading as the narrator, his performance as the soldiers was very good.
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- David
- 10-16-21
Got this by mistake
I am a big zombie fan and love rc bray. Nothing new to listen to so i picked a military story. Ill be damed a WW2, zombie story, i love it.
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- mystery111
- 04-25-21
Not worth it
The writing was decent and the narration is good, but there are too many characters, they're all superficial, the characters and the plot itself have almost no depth or development, and it's mainly just a lot of action movie like filler with lots of explosions and gunfire. I struggled to pay attention through most of it and I was glad when it was over. I will not be buying the sequel.