The Infected (Book 1 of The Infected series)

De: Scott Ganley

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The World is Dead. The Hunt Has Begun.

It started as a calculated attack—terrorist squads infected with a deadly virus unleashed on the U.S. and Europe. But no one predicted what came next. The virus mutated, spreading like wildfire, consuming entire nations. Millions died. The unlucky ones came back.

Mindless. Rabid. Driven by a single, relentless instinct—to hunt and kill the few who remain.

Hunter, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, was ready to leave violence behind. But when civilization collapses overnight, he finds himself back in the fight of his life. Teaming up with a band of desperate survivors, he flees the cities, searching for refuge in the countryside. But the infected aren’t the only threat.

As law and order crumble, ruthless survivors begin preying on the weak, turning the apocalypse into a brutal battleground. Now, Hunter must lead the few who still have something to fight for. Against the dead. Against the living. Against the end of the world itself.

The infection is spreading. The survivors are outnumbered. And the real nightmare has only just begun.

Didn’t really hold my attention

I don’t know if it was the AI narration, or the story itself. But this book didn’t hold my attention. The AI use of nine hundred eleven in place of 911 really irked me! Another glaring issue with AI voice narration is their failure to convey proper emotion. Stating that a character yelled, or screamed, or any type of emotion is lost. 

Virtual voice was awful

I tried to hang with this story but just couldn’t. The virtual voice has zero inflection and mispronounced so many words that I had to go back multiple times to figure out what was being said.
The story had promise but the narration killed it so I stopped mid book.
No more virtual voice narrators for me, it horrid.

bringing all the people to a point of meeting

well written it runs smooth well thought out loved the story. it is believable hope it does not go this way.

not bad

it's not a bad book but it doesn't hold attention very well. I think if it was an actual person reading it would have been better. the monotonous tone had me spacing out a lot.

Could of been different

Overall, the story was good. Where the story fell short was with the narrator. I think they should’ve spent a little extra money and had an actual real-life breathing human narrate. The story was too robotic and lacked motion. When it came down to crucial inflections of voice or scenes in the book was very mechanical, not realistic on how people would actually talk. That would have made it a 5 start bold for me.

predictable.. nothing unique

Virtual voice screws up many words, frustrating that people dial "nine hundred eleven" for help. Book is supposedly 1st of 3 books but 2 and 3 are not on audible. At the very end author tries to set an emotional hook where the Captain gets kissy faced with main character.

AI reader is HORRIBLE

the ai is horrible. i t just goes on and on with no inflection in the voice. Hardly and stopping between sentences, Miss pronounced words, I finally gave up. I will try to find the series yo read.

pony up for a real human narrator

This is the first AI narration I listened to and it will probably be my last. while the voice sounded human everything was spoken in the same emotionless tone. There were also a couple of typos that a human would naturally correct but AI read as written. it was humorous when the narrator would swear or say something was supposed to be very emotional but it just sounded like background exposition.

the virtual voice is hell

I loved story line hated narration due to dead pan voice narration.use real people n it's a winner

Starts Off Strong

So the narration is what caused me to stop a few hours in. This is my first virtual narration book. The book is written in such a way that only one person is talking, acting, thinking, or focusing at a time. Good for setting up a story and character development. When having to interact with others is where the narration lacks. There is no change in pitch or cues to differentiate between characters. I think the story would be solid with a person or multiple virtual narration.