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Fortress Britain

Arisen, Book 1

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Fortress Britain

By: Michael Stephen Stephen Fuchs, Glynn James
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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A world fallen under a plague of seven billion walking dead. A tiny island nation the last refuge of the living. One team of the world's most elite special operators. The dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have...Arisen.

When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of 7 billion animated corpses. And when civilization fell, one international team of supremely elite special operators was being assembled for a nearly impossible mission, deployed out of the SAS barracks at Hereford. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are humanity's last best hope for survival. Searching through the detritus of fallen Europe, scavenging pharmaceutical labs for clues to a vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink, now they are tasked with one last desperate operation. They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world's only remaining supercarrier, insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, and then fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys. But these Zulus will not be like any zombies they have ever fought before....

©2013 Michael Stephen Fuchs, Glynn James (P)2014 Podium Publishing
Fiction Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Scary Zombie Survival
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So this was an interesting listen, setting the stage for books to come. Bits n pieces happen, but its all stage setting and introducing the characters and background. I cant remember some of the characters as there are so many, and some I dont care about, so, for me, I'm not 100% sold yet but entertained enough to try one more book.

I adore RC Bray but somebody needed to teach him the pronunciations of some of the places in Britain, that grated. Plus, for the English, we dont tend to think Slough is on the edge of London so some geographical points came from a non British perspective. This was a side irritant.

I hope the books develop well as there is promise but I am sitting on the fence a little at the moment.

Decent prequel if you want to start series

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I received a free copy of this audiobook from one of the authors, but this is my unbiased opinion.

I found this story very easy to get into. I was grabbed by the military setting, and the geographical location - Britain became a character in its own right. I often struggle with a large cast of characters, but I found this much easier to follow than I expected. There is an excellent range of character types, and their emotions and reactions to their apparently unwinnable situation are extremely plausible. Although I received this volume for free, I will happily buy the others in the series.

My only real problem with the book was with the American narrator. His English accents were wobbly and tended to distract me from the story, and he mispronounced several words, notably 'Premier Inn', which needed the English pronunciation for Premier, and 'forecastle', which he pronounced phonetically instead of 'fohksl'.

Gripping and unusual

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A great listen, very intense and exhilarating. can't wait to listen to the next book

great listen

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I am not a fan of horror or gore fest so was not hopefull that this book would be entertaining ....but it was free on Audible Plus so I took a chance.

It is excellent. More a military Sci fi but with zombies instead of aliens.

Well worth going out on my favourite genres.

Not what I expected

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I have really enjoyed other books read by R C Bray but this one was really annoying. Someone British should have explained how we pronounce Folkestone, Malvern, Hereford, Herefordshire and Risborough before asking him to narrate this book. A voice coach for English accents wouldn't have gone amiss either as at times he sounded like Dick van Dyke as the mockney sweep from Mary Poppins. I found it very distracting and this wasn't the case when he narrated the Mountain Man series.

Anyway apart from the awful mistakes alluded to above the story was fast paced, immersive and a little bonkers, just what I like in my post apocalyptic fiction. No doubt I shall wince through the rest of the series as he mangles English accents and place names but I liked the story enough to want to listen to them all.

I would recommend this audio book but if you're British take a deep breath first.

Good but annoying

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