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Zombie

By: Iain Rob Wright
Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
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Summary

On December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. But on that day, 113 mysterious manuscripts were discovered around the world, each one written in blood by an unknown author. After several dozen unexplained deaths befell the finders of said manuscripts, a decision was made to lock them up for good in a secret vault beneath the Vatican. It is said that anyone who reads the stories will die, and as such they are now referred to as the "Cursed Manuscripts".

In December 2020, new manuscripts started turning up around the world. Zombie was one of them.

MANUSCRIPT ID: 12/20-02 (ZOMBIE)

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Manuscript 12.20-02, discovered June 2021 in Stoke, United Kingdom, by teenager, Kyle Smith, who found it abandoned on the seat of a bus. Kyle Smith was hit by a car and killed two days later. The following text was found written on an unsent text message found on his phone. There was no recipient.

After a terrible night of arguing, a young married couple, Laura and Danny, drive home with their daughter, Rose, asleep in the back seat. Danny is drunk, and shouldn't be driving at all, but Laura keeps quiet about it. She always keeps quiet. There's no point making her husband angry. That would only make things worse.

But things are about to get much much worse.

What happens next will put Laura's strained marriage to the ultimate test as she and Danny find themselves broken down in the middle of the night on a lonely road. Their only hope for survival is to stay inside the car, because that's the only way to avoid the cannibalistic maniacs outside trying eat them.

If you love dread-filled stories full of scares and new twists on old genres, then Zombie is the book you've been waiting for. Grab your copy now.

©2022 Iain Wright (P)2022 Iain Wright

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"Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me!" (J.A. Konrath)

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More marriage guidance than 'zombie'

Well I am not sure quite what I was expecting from this but I definitely expected more zombie activity than there was. This story is more of a narrative of an exceptionally bad marriage than that of a zombie apocolypse. I was quite disappointed as Iain Rob Wright's books are usually a bit more action oriented but it was not bad, it was quite good in fact as an aid for women to maybe consider escaping a bad marriage, if they were ever to consider reading a novel named 'Zombie'.

Basically the story revolves around a couple named Danny and Laura, who have been at Laura's parents house with their little girl Rose, Danny hates Laura's Father so makes a feeble excuse about work and insists they leave despite it being the middle of the night and despite his having consumed too much alcohol. They get into an argument, phones are thrown out of the window, the car is stopped to search for Danny's oh so precious mobile (never mind Laura's that he previously lobbed out of the window), and his car is trashed by a passing van, the van contains ZOMBIES ..... Oh dear ... and the fun begins (what passes for fun anyway). A couple of hours pass with that claustrophobic feeling of too few characters populatating too small a stage, then ... excitement ... another car arrives ... well that did not work out well and the action moves slightly down the road.

This one does have a happy ending at least, so it gets three stars for that and for being a pretty good story even if I did feel conned.

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Loved it

What can I say, Big fan of Iains and love Aubrey narrating. Well worth listening to, just make sure you when you start the book, you have a few hours free. Its hard to stop listening to.

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Not for the faint hearted

This is very entertaining listen. It is certainly not for the faint of hearted and not recommended bedtime listening which I did! Kept me awake all night as there was no way I was going to sleep before finishing it. Aubry Parsons was brilliant as usual in his narration. Look forward to listening to more from both contributors!

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zombie is an odd name for this book

I did enjoy the book, though it didn't grip me as much as the first one. as someone else has said, very much focused on the doomed relationship of an unhappy couple. 'A touch of Death' or something might have been better. The descriptions of the zombie activity was underwhelming considering how powerful 'Witch' was. Will continue the series. enjoy the English accent.

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Avoid! - overview does not match the story!

I was so disappointed with this book - I choose it on the basis of the overview, which talked about manuscripts and curses, but there’s zero reference to either! It’s a boring, predictable plot about a miserable, abusive marriage - the zombies are of very little importance to the story. Don’t bother reading if you’re after a horror story!

I also disliked the narration - a deep male voice taking on a falsetto to imitate a female is always irritating. I would not recommend this story/performance at all.

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