All DEAD
The Complete 12 Books of the DEAD Series
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Narrated by:
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Andrew McFerrin
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By:
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T. W. Brown
Here it is in its entirety. You have 12 books and well over one million words of zombie goodness.
The dead walk!
Welcome to the world of T. W. Brown's DEAD saga. This raw, violent, and brutal world isn't populated with military supermen and women, or preppers that have been waiting for the human extinction event to arrive. This is a world of normal people...some good, some bad...and some pure evil.
This is a global look at the end of the world. Follow Steve and his group as you see the apocalypse unfold through a single person's eyes. With the geeks, you meet four young men who thought a zombie apocalypse would be cool...and quickly discover that it really isn't.
In the vignettes, you will get short glimpses of the state the world has fallen into. Some will only be a single offering. Others might stick around for a while, but rest assured...nobody is safe.
Welcome to T. W. Brown's DEAD world.
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I enjoyed this series and would recommend it.
Zombie saga
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really enjoyed this book.
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But - the way it skips about between several different groups and individuals stops it from becoming bogged down in the family drama - there are so many parallel stories playing out - some long arching narratives, some just single scene stories - it makes for an eclectic mix and gives really good sense of scale to this apocalypse - with stories playing out in the US, Egypt, England - which I loved, but brings me to the one main criticism I have:
** please note this relates to a single story strand among many - the majority of the story takes place in the US
The story set in England, I found difficult to connect with at times. It wasn't a bad story (it was actually very good) and it wasn't that i disliked the characters (again, they were good and interesting characters) - it was more a kind of uncanny valley effect of almost but not quite realistic. The writer clearly has some familiarity with the UK but the dialogue and characters' internal monologues and motivations were like a mishmash of several different decades of British culture and language patterns, with an occasional Americanism thrown in in a way that just doesn't happen: example - a young man, in his teens meets the English protagonist who is an older woman and calls her 'mum' (ma'am) until she tells him to call her by her name. That sort of thing simply does not happen in the UK. It might have 40 or 50 years ago, but calling newly met older women ma'am and newly met older men 'sir' is something I would more readily associate with US culture. Similarly, the main English character's internal monologue seemed off kilter in places - concerns and characteristics (like referring to her husband's stiff upper lip) feel like they've been dropped in from a previous age. The slang is realistic in places, but often feels age inappropriate (teenagers using slang I would associate with much older people ' you great lummux') and characters often speak far too formally - 'however' instead of 'but' when throwing out options in the middle of a life or death situation). And finally the main protagonist's initial dismay at meeting up with an Irish man, which may have felt realistic 20 years ago but feels very out of place for a woman in her 30s/40s in the 2010s
All of which makes the UK story sound really bad, but it wasn't. It was mostly entertaining, and did a better job than many US authors do when trying to portray British people but little bits like the above did tend to jolt me out of it a few times. For a non-Brit it probably wouldn't matter much - it's close enough. And the narrator does a good enough job offsetting a lot of the issues and drawing you into the characters.
Back to the positives: the narrator - awesome job. Really captured the different characters and made the whole thing feel fully fleshed out. So much so that when one of them dies or is hurt it is like watching one of your favourite characters in a TV series go through it.
A little over 143 hours - was like bingeing a 6 season show on Netflix. I am bereft now that I have finished it. I wish I could wipe the whole thing from my memory so that I coild go back to the start and listen again for the first time.
A riveting roller coaster
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Exceptional!
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TW Brown manages to build credible characters in interwoven story threads across many years. Accompanied by a story line that managed to reinvent the zombies with a new twist!
I would recommend this book to any zombie lovers out there. This is a ‘must read’!
A zombie saga with a difference
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