Zombies!
The Complete Post-Apocalyptic SciFi Zombie Thriller Series in One Boxset
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Narrated by:
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Virtual Voice
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By:
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R S Merritt
This title uses virtual voice narration
A Family Fights to Survive in a World Overrun by the Infected in this 2,200+ Page Post-apocalyptic Survival Thriller.
A family was torn apart in the first chaotic days of the outbreak. The parents were stranded on an island off the coast of New England, cut off from the mainland as society collapsed. Their children were hundreds of miles away in Florida with their grandmother, trapped in a church while the monsters pushed their way in.
Now, across a shattered America, both sides of the family must fight to survive and find one another before the last traces of humanity are wiped out by violence, fear, and the rage of the infected.
Inside this complete box set is the full series:
1. A Small World – The outbreak begins and the world falls apart.
2. Against the Current – Trapped and hunted with no escape.
3. Violence Solves Everything – The law is gone, and survival has a price.
4. Nowhere to Hide – The long road north through chaos and death.
5. Greater Love Hath No Man – Courage and sacrifice in a dying world.
6. Hold the Line – The infection spreads, and humanity fights back.
7. Still Standing – Love, loss, and the battle to rebuild what remains.
A brutal, emotional, realistic journey through the apocalypse.
From bestselling author R.S. Merritt, Zombies! delivers a gripping, high-stakes vision of an infection-driven collapse and the determination of one family to find each other and endure in a world turned upside down.
Perfect for fans of:
Max Brooks — World War Z
Mark Tufo — Zombie Fallout
J.L. Bourne — Day by Day Armageddon
Nick Clausen - Cadaver and Dead Meat
Michael Robertson - Beyond These Walls
If you love fast-paced survival horror, relentless infected, military-style action, and characters you will root for until the bitter end, this series will keep you turning pages late into the night.
The infection is spreading. No one is safe.
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The only major issue with the virtual voice in this series is that the table of contents is completly fubar. Wait, duh, that's not a virtual voice issue but rather an editing error. (My bad.) Some "chapters" are actually entire books, others are 5 chapters of a book followed by individual chapters again, and there's no consistency between the two. As a result, heaven help you if you accidentally bump the "skip chapter" button because you may discover that finding your place again is a nightmare.
As for any actual issues with the virtual voice narration, they're pretty minor and only mildly annoying. The first is that the AI narrator reads off the entire TOC for each book at the beginning of that book, word for word. It's a full 2+ minutes of droning chapter... title... chapter... title... that adds absolutely nothing to the story or the experience. Second, the AI's pronunciation of the word "bow" when it's refers to the object and not the verb. It consistently pronounces it as the verb "böw", as in the thing you do in the presence of royalty, instead of the noun "bōw", like a bow and arrow. There are also a few other verb vs noun pronunciation issues but that's the one that keeps coming up and it is a little annoying. I've noticed the same issue with other books narrated by AI so this isn't unique to this one.
The last thing isn't an issue with virtual voice itself but rather a side effect of it: The AI reads the text it's given, word for word, as is, making any typos in the text (like the word "spilt" instead of "split") blatantly obvious. Again, this isn't an issue with the virtual voice narration but rather with editing, and can actually be a useful tool for authors. Fortunately, there are only a few of these typos in this series so it's not a big issue. I actually find them somewhat amusing.
As for the story itself, I found myself quickly hooked on it and had a hard time putting it down. It both is and isn't a typical zompoc with some variations on the traditional zombie that make things more interesting, the characters are well developed and easy to become invested in, and there's plenty of action, suspense, and the occasional, well placed moments of humor. Additionally, the author isn't afraid to kill off some favorite main characters, so you can't rely on the good guys always winning.
That said, I hate it when authors put their characters through horrible injury after horrible injury, especially repeated head wounds within a short amount of time. These characters should absolutely be dead by the 3rd or 4th such event at the latest and yet somehow they survive, with little to no trained medical help, to fight another day of unrealistically insurmountable odds and more devastating injuries. I especially hate it when these are my favorite characters that are being brutalized. I always start to wonder if these authors are secret psychopaths that enjoy torturing innocent characters or are maybe taking out their frustrations on them, and it pisses me off. And yet I stay hooked on the story and continue to read, so what's does that say about me?
Similar series that I've enjoyed include Adrian's Undead Diary by Chris Philbrook and Zombie Rules by David Achord.
Don't Let The Virtual Voice Keep You From Trying This One!
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