The Mountain and The City

The Complete Saga

De: Brian Martinez

Narrado por: Victoria Smart

An epidemic has killed off most humans, turning the rest into beasts with sharp nails, keen senses and an insatiable hunger. Now, years later, a solitary survivor hides in a trailer above a dead city. This is life with the door and windows taped shut, where survival comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet, and protect the air.

One day, a visitor comes up the mountain. It's a meeting that leads to a fateful decision, and a sacrifice that will change everything.

Collected here for the first time, The Mountain and The City is a post-apocalyptic serial that has kept its faithful listeners on the edge of their seats time and time again.

©2012 Brian Martinez (P)2013 Brian Martinez

Great story but the audio version was a bit echoy'

Where does The Mountain and The City rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is a pretty good apocalyptic book.

What did you like best about this story?

The Mountain and the City has a great first person narrator. Brian Martinez has created a great character with which he explores the effects of having grown in an apocalyptic world: trust issues, stunted emotional development, issues with morality in a survival mode, etc. It was very well done.

What three words best describe Victoria Smart’s voice?

Echo, monotone, low

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Every time the Main Character was looking after Child.

Any additional comments?

Near the end of the book I was thinking that this book lacked a lot of world building and that we were pretty much blind as to what had happened to the world. Then, BAM! the very end is the story of how everything went to hell. Great story.

Wasn't sure at first

A story of survival, regret, and redemption in a virus ridden apocalypse. The minimalistic​ nature of the writing threw me at first, but I quickly realized how integral to the story it was. Loved it.

A fresh take on the zombie theme

Where does The Mountain and The City rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

A solid listen. Well written and decently narrated. It takes the idea of the zombie apocalypse and injects a bit more humanity into the creatures than is usually seen.

What other book might you compare The Mountain and The City to and why?

World War Z - The Mountain and The City is a serialized novel, so each chapter feels more like an individual episode than chapters often do. Because of this, the read style is similar to WWZ, in which several different stories are told woven together from an almost journal-style perspective. TMATC is certainly more of a traditional narrative, but still felt like a similar read to WWZ.

Which character – as performed by Victoria Smart – was your favorite?

The performance didn't stand out as anything particularly memorable to me.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Yes. The second half of the book actually takes a pretty steep decent into some pretty emotionally compelling material.

Any additional comments?

A very interesting read. It starts off seeming to be a staple zombie apocalypse story. It doesn't take long to discover that there is more to the creatures in The Mountain and The City than just mindless walking corpses. The story does a great job of giving the reader (listener) perspective from several different viewpoints. I would certainly recommend giving this a read if you're into post-apocalyptic or zombie literature, you might just find something you haven't seen before.I wish I had known that the novel was a serial before I went into it. After finding out that that was the case, the pacing made a lot more sense. There are a lot of climactic moments through the novel, and I kept thinking it was about to end, only to notice that there was a ton more. This was always a pleasant surprise, as the story kept getting better, but I did think it was a little strange to start with.

NEED A BETTER NARRATOR!

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Okay, just because the book involves the whole entire planet practically being dead, does NOT mean the narrator has to be dead on the inside too. seriously no emotion in the voice, didn't change her voice AT ALL to different characters so you had no idea who was talking and she would pause for like 10 in between periods which is the way you're NOT supposed to do it. ANYONE WHO IS READING THIS, TURN AWAY! DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME ON THIS AUDIOBOOK!

I LOVED this book!

I loved this book. The narration was different to be certain but it absolutely fit with the story- read in first person narrative, the main character was a child when she last was around others so her language and speech was very youthful even though years had passed. I found it to be perfectly suited for THIS story.
There have only been a handful of stories where I nearly grieved when they were over and this was one!
I am excited to locate this authors other works.
So so so sad it's over:(