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The Hungry Earth
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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Sakima, New York, a sleepy, idyllic city nestled in the Hudson Valley, a place where everyone knows each other, families look after the highly prized community garden, and the crime rate is so low that Dr. Laura Powell, the police department’s medical examiner, spends most of her time tending to her own private medical practice.
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- Adrienne F Ryans
- 06-10-21
This one unnerved me
I do not get scared often by books I read. Horror books I just find interesting. Ghost books if the story is good I find interesting. Books that delve into virus or pericytes or some fungus infecting me and being easily passed on from person to person, scares me. Even if the issue presented in this book is fictitious, it made me very uncomfortable. I felt the fear of the characters almost as if it was happening to me. I always feared that one day some disease or event level extinction occurring will end my life if it happens during my life time. The pandemic that we are working through now has been emotionally devastating. So, a book like this really gets to me. The descriptions of how people looked and their reaction to the fungus was very well written. I would definitely read additions books written by this author.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-10-21
Kay Scarpetta Meets Zombie Apocalypse
The worst book I've ever downloaded from Audible. Don't waste your money. As if the absurd plot weren't enough, it's poorly written. The blurb doesn't begin to clue you in. Just. Don't. Do. It.
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- kyle wray
- 20-10-21
horror story... not so much
First off, I did enjoy the story. That said.. Holy tropes batman. By the end I had a mental list of every horror trope used and was ticking them off mentally wondering when a new one would pop up. You'd think between a mycologist and a doctor one of them would have some common sense but no. Idk, maybe horror movies aren't a thing in this universe but I mean come on, hard to believe some of the questions being asked by supposedly educated people. That aside, if you enjoy horror tropes, this has it in spades. As for the narration, not bad, didn't harm my enjoyment of the story any. My favorite character? Probably the land developer guy, he'd clearly seen a horror movie or two in his day. The story was pretty solid otherwise and the premise was super creepy, and if it were me I would have noped right out of town before doing anything else!