The Death: The Complete Trilogy

By: John W. Vance

Narrated by: Guy Williams

Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

All three audiobooks under one cover!

The Death will find you.

It took just a few weeks for a plague called the Death to wipe out over 90% of the world’s population. Those who survived thought themselves lucky until the world that remained came into stark relief. Devin Chase, a writer by trade and urban dweller sits in his apartment in New York unaware that his fiancé is the first victim of a worldwide pandemic called the Death. Upon learning of his fiancé’s condition he sets out to find her. Unprepared and unsuccessful he barely survives the initial days and takes refuge in a secluded barn. After six months he emerges from his self-imposed quarantine to find that over 90% of the world's population is dead. With no knowledge or skills he must learn and adapt as he goes. As he travels, he discovers others like him who are immune but he must also confront 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."

A thousand miles away, Lori Roberts, a mother of two, wife, and successful businesswoman must tackle the harsh realities the Death has imposed. Within weeks of the outbreak, her family is quarantined at a FEMA camp. At first they believe the camp is their sanctuary, but soon discover something entirely different and sinister is happening to the survivors. Two people, two survivors but one ultimate outcome. They survived the Death but will they survive what the world has become?

©2015, 2018 John W. Vance (P)2018 John W. Vance

Great book! Not the usual happy ending.

Amazing story and characters. It's somewhat dark but it really refects how I imagine humanity would react when facing the end of Human existence.

story decent narrator not

the story was pretty good however there was No Way the first "book" could even come close to being considered a complete book. had I bought the single book, i would not have purchased the rest. story picked up after book one. the narrator's voice was to high pitched for a serious novel. better for young adult story.

the narrator is amazing as always, however.

The book set started off strong. The narrator was amazing as always... however... The last book was rushed and was just not a good ending. It feels as if the author got bored and just put together what he hoped was a bunch of good plot twist. It wasn't. This last book ruined all of the time and effort placed into the first 2 books.

Great read once it gets going

The story started off a little slow. But once it got going mid way through the 1st book I could not listening.

The The narration was fair neither poor or good just average. However the story is excellent the author does a good job of throwing in a fair amount of twist and turns in the storyline keeping you engaged and anxiously waiting to see what happens in the next chapter. The characters are well developed and will have you cheering for so in hating the others.

Over all I was not expecting much from this audiobook but I was pleasantly surprised by such a go read/listen. Getting all 3 books for the price of one was a pleasant surprise.

Excellent value for the money highly recommended.

A bit different, but enjoyable

Here’s always at least one nut job with the “Bright” idea of cleaning the planet, and building anew. It NEVER works! Sigh……..

Slow, Plodding

I got about half way through but poor character development, and poor plot development made me give up. The author takes way to long to get in to the primary plot. Characters seem completely unable to use logic or make small intuitive leaps.

Sorrow

Loved the story. I didn't agree with the doctor on killing everything and everyone. That's just selfish and wrong, just because everyone didn't think he was great. The same with the leaders, they were just as corrupt as the previous leaders, however, worse.

Interesting listen

I enjoy a good pandemic book! I was a little disappointed in the lack of character development. We got bits here and there, but not enough to truly care what happens to them. The basis of the book was a bit cliche, but still well done. Narration was good even though the female voices were definitely strained. Ending was unexpected so I will give the author credit for that!

Spoilers! Basically this is a book about a false flag event conceived by an Illuminati style group that has infiltrated all levels of society and government. There’s a little good vs evil with a former member trying to stop the current plan from evolving. The story revolves around a couple of different sets of people set far apart, but yet connected. For instance, patient zero is the fiancé of the man who is with the fiancé of a captain at the base holding patient zero. Meanwhile the captain falls for a rather unappealing woman at the base (frankly, as a woman, there is nothing redeeming about her and when she finally realizes the error of her ways, it’s too late in the game because I had started to hope she would be killed off a dozen chapters prior), the fiancé of patient zero falls for the captain’s fiancé and in the end you have no idea who you’re ‘rooting’ for and as it turns out, it doesn’t really matter in the end. Anyway, it’s about their journeys and although interesting, I feel like we just got a surface story without a lot of depth to the characters. As an example, one of the groups runs into a 10 year kid and his merry band of the lord of the flies. Naturally, you start by really not liking this kid, then somehow we’re supposed to like this kid because now he’s helping, but we still don’t know a thing about him or where he came from or how he’s survived without adults thus far. So again, in the end, I didn’t really care about him throughout.

Ending

Not sure about the ending when the epilogue started I thought this sucks but as it got more towards the end it smoothed out

My Thoughts

WOW!! Great story , very original, moved quickly, very descriptive but not over done. Surprised by the opening with comment by my favorite G Michael Hopf. Only negative from me would be that it needs to be redone with different narration. Hey John, can you send me an autographed hard cover? THANKS!!!