The Complete Deadland Saga

By: Rachel Aukes

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson

Length: 27 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

The number one best-selling trilogy is now available as a single audiobook! This audiobook contains 100 Days in Deadland, Deadland's Harvest, and Deadland Rising.   

100 Days in Deadland: The world ended on a Thursday. In one day, the world succumbed to a pestilence that decimated the living. In its place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering zombies with an insatiable hunger for the living.  

Deadland's Harvest: It has been 100 days since the zombies claimed the world. Cash, along with 42 survivors, have found safety in the secluded and well-guarded Fox National Park. The leaves are changing colors, a beautiful, brutal reminder that winter is coming. As the survivors prepare for freezing months without electricity and not enough food, they learn of massive zombie herds several hundred miles north...and headed their way.  

Deadland Rising: It has been nearly one year since the zombie hordes claimed the world. As the plague eats away at its victims' bodies, the Fox survivors search for a safe place to rebuild what they have lost. But a dangerous new threat has risen, hunting them from every direction.

©2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Rachel Aukes (P)2018 Rachel Aukes

Good book with zombies, bad guys and good guys

I like that this book is written from a woman's point of view. The female lead was an office drone before the zombie event. She just sat at a desk and was happy with that. When she was faced with a life or death situation in the ladies rest room, she fought for her life, killed the zombie and then escaped the building. She ended up pairing with a truck driver/farmer/former Army Ranger named Clutch. He nicknamed her Cash. Cash had to quickly learn fighting and survival skills. The story is about their adventures and misadventures in the dangerous world of zombies and criminal humans.

There are a host of supporting characters, exciting action scenes, and love events, I enjoyed the book. It is a vert good sound zombie book but not as outstanding as some. It is particularly good that all three books in the series are included in this one credit. That is a great bonus. I do recommend that you give it a listen. One negative comment, at first the narrator's voice sounds as if she is bored with her reading assignment. That put me off when it happened. Most of the time, however, she did a good job and handled male voices as well as female voices.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

oh dear narrator

The story was pretty good, with only a few unimportant inconsistencies, I rather liked it. Sorry to have to say that the narration just didn't work.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

cant even get through a few chapters

I cant even listen to the first few chapters 😭😭😭 the voice actor is not my favorite

entertaining but cleshay

it was enjoyable but some characters did really stupid things. I was like wtf. still was worth a credit for the three books.

Twilight with zombies - no thanks

Adolescent, not really for genre veterans. Smacks of the Twilight Series and weirdly, undertones of 50 Shades.

Not that great

The story is ok. Not horrible, but not really gripping. It feels like this is a new writer still feeling out how to approach things.

The real downside for me was the Narrator. While she was clear, her presentation was absolutely flat. No pacing, no emotion, it was almost like listening to a very nice robot. This really detracted from the book.

I've listened for a couple of hours and I'm done. I love zombie books, but I can't do this one.

GOOD zombie entry

The full 3 novels are included. It’s standard zombie fare. Has interesting characters and good action sequences. It’s worth the credit.

Narration is very good and she brings the characters to life. I enjoyed the ending most of all and it’s narrative that relates to the current political class.

2 of 4 people found this review helpful

5 STARS FOR THE COMPLETE DEADLAND SAGA

This story was revitalizing. I couldn't stop listening and imagining how each character felt. It was like a movie series playing out in my mind.I really loved it and recommending this audio book to my friends. 5 STARS

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Meh. Just ok.

The story itself wasn’t bad but there were three primary problems that kept it from being fully enjoyed:
1. I certainly don’t mind a sex scene in a story if it’s used at an appropriate time and it furthers the story and/or strengthens character development. Here, the couple times sex was described, the book went from a YA type novel to raunchy sex very abruptly — making you feel like you started reading a totally different story. In three paragraphs, it goes from YA to raunchy sex back to the YA novel. It just seemed unnecessary and I’m really not clear why the author felt compelled to throw in as many sexually explicit wording she could on a couple random pages?? These scenes stood out, but only because they didn’t fit with the rest of the narrative.
2. Either the author didn’t bother with an editor or the editor didn’t bother editing. There were chunks of copy that were repeated several times - sometimes within just a few paragraphs of each other. It felt like the author had moved text to a new spot in the chapter but seemingly forgot to delete it from the prior spot. I counted more than 15 places that occurred — and I’m not counting the repeats as she transitioned between each book in this collection.
3. The narration needed an editor BADLY as well - book 2 was the WORST and might be the worst I’ve ever heard from Audible. It’s like she was reading from a TelePrompter set at a speed to slow so that there was a noticeable and annoying pause between the last words of every sentence. The narrator actually seemed so distracted at one point I almost just stopped 12+ hours through because I couldn’t take listening to her anymore.
Overall, the story itself was decent. Worth a credit if it’s not your last one and/or you want a longer story to fill a long car ride or a light read while you multitask!

2 of 6 people found this review helpful

Another zombie apocalypse story

Felt like I was listening to a book I'd already read. Not very original but not horrible either.

1 of 5 people found this review helpful

bargain buy.

really good listen slightly different take on the zombie apocalypse from a woman's point of view. brilliant writing and narration.