The Night Parade

By: Ronald Malfi

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

A father and daughter try to survive the steady decline of all they know in this haunting thriller from award-winning author Ronald Malfi.

First the birds disappeared.

Then the insects took over.

Then the madness began.

They call it Wanderer's Folly - a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out the human race.

After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up one morning thinking that the worst was over. By midnight, he's bleeding and terrified, his wife is dead, and he's on the run in a stolen car with his eight-year-old daughter, who may be the key to a cure.

Ellie is a special girl - deep, insightful - and she knows David is lying to her. Lying about her mother. Lying about what they're running from. And lying about what he sees when he takes his eyes off the road.

©2016 Ronald Malfi (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Well Written Slow Burn

Have you ever heard of the old saying, that someone can or can't "Spin a Yarn"? ...And don't you agree that some people have the talent of telling a good story and some do not?
Ronald Malfi can spin a good yarn. He is noticeably a very good writer. Which for me just leaves a review of personal preferences.
The story sets off at a good pace drawing me in almost immediately. I can usually give a book a good half hour to 20 minutes at the beginning to draw me in. If it doesn't happen by then, I'm usually out. This one did.
The setting of the story and the theme are not new ideas, with a virus raging thru the country during present day America, a father and daughter are travelling incognito in attempt to keep parts of the medical profession from catching them and using his daughter as a "cure all'
We see that as they travel, some parts of the country seems pretty much unaffected, (stopping for ice cream, or at a pizza joint) while others, society has declined and people are in survival mode. This made the story real soft, and did not completely capture the increasing fear,stress and danger and INTENSITY that this story COULD of had. However, what interactions they experienced on their journey, along with some flashbacks that were placed with good discrimination we do get the satisfaction needed to continue with the story. We see hope, love, grief and how far people will go to save their loved ones.
It is a slow burn, and it doesn't include a lot of violence, blood, or other things a person thinks of when regarding the "horror genre"
I read a review that said the book was too long by one chapter, the end chapter, which she felt cheapened the ending. I have to strongly disagree. I believe it was the last chapter that gave the rest of the book a more meaningful feeling. And wished THAT particular theme would of been pushed harder thru out the story.
It IS a good story. I DO recommend it. But just be aware it is NOT hard core horror. And to some that is either a good thing or a bad.

The Night Parade

I think the storyline was very interesting, I only wish there had been more information on the sickness that was killing people.

Easy to put down and pick back up

I found it interesting how living through the main character of the father You could see how his actions were being justified. It was a good read in the aspect of being able to stop and pick right backup and start again and the ending I really enjoyed. I think it gives the reader a perspective of not only how life may end on Earth but what life may be like after death. And that death doesn't have to be such a horrible thing. Kind of ironic that I'm reading this book the same time the cicadas are emerging from the ground after 17 years😜

awesome

great well read it kept me interested and awake during my long drives overall good

I didn't love it...

Narrator was great.

Story was not terrible. It was an interesting twist from most end of the world type books.

The main character was really unrelatable for me though. As a father myself, I struggled with a lot of the decisions made by this character struggling with emotions and brains eating sickness.

The sheer amount of terrible off the wall decisions made by a professor was hard to get past.

I think the author was relying on the sickness to explain alot of his decisions but it just didn't work for me.

I feel like he struggled with a true identity for him altogether.


There were some plot twists that weren't explained either but overall imma give this a 3.5 stars.

Narrator I quite enjoyed and was probably the main reason I finished the book.

Story was interesting.

Characters were not well defined imo. None of them honestly.

Plot twists that should have been great, kind of fell on deaf ears with the lack of back story into why these other characters were the way they were.

Instead you just had tons of characters acting completely weird, either way too nice, way too crazy, or just plain not needed in the story.

Not a normal person in the entire book.

All this to say...

Character development was not done well across the board.

Weirdly Prescient Plague Story

Pros: Interesting, gripping story, weirdly spot-on given current events.
Narration was outstanding.
Cons: Would've benefited from some more editing. In my opinion, lots of extraneous, draggy details that could've been cut without affecting the story.

Don't believe what you read about the ending.

im not good at writing reviews, you can get the gist on others. what bothered me was that people didn't like the ending. I loved it. it was fitting and....Spoilers...Dont read anymore if you haven't read it.........





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the folly got him like his college student, just everyone sees it differently

Fantastic

This was such a great story, I really hope there will be a second book

loved it!

I loved it and can't wait for the next book. i am hoping for a sequel.

Very entertaining

To me this books read like a superhero origin story. I love apocalypse, post apocalyptic, and ELE books. This one had enough moving parts to keep the story moving, but not so many that we can’t keep them straight. Well done and well read.