Feral

By: James DeMonaco, B. K. Evenson

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Brittany Pressley, Erin Spencer, Jorjeana Marie, Hillary Huber

From James DeMonaco, the writer/director of The Purge film franchise, comes the provocative and terrifying last stand of a lone outpost of women in the wake of a deadly pandemic.

Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen that quickly spread to every male on the planet, killing most. Allie witnessed every man she ever knew be consumed by fearsome symptoms: scorching fevers and internal bleeding, madness and uncontrollable violence. The world crumbled around her. No man was spared, and the few survivors were irrevocably changed. They became disturbingly strong, aggressive, and ferocious. Feral.

Three years later, Allie has joined a group of hardened survivors in an isolated, walled-in encampment. Outside the guarded walls the ferals roam free, and hunt. Allie has been noticing troubling patterns in the ferals' movements, and a disturbing number of new faces in the wild. Something catastrophic is brewing on the horizon, and time is running out. The ferals are coming, and there is no stopping them.

With Feral, writer/director James DeMonaco and acclaimed novelist Brian Evenson have created a challenging and entertaining novel of timely horror and exhilarating suspense.

Read by Kirsten Potter, Brittany Pressley, Erin Spencer, Jorjeana Marie, and Hillary Huber.

Critic reviews

"FERAL starts out by being creepy. As it moves forward FERAL becomes chilling and then turns terrifying. This is definitely--absolutely, positively--a book to be read with all the lights on!"
--Robert McCammon, bestselling author of Swan Song and Boy’s Life

"Feral is nasty excitement, a wild, jolting ride from start to finish. Enjoy."
--Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist

"DeMonaco and Evenson hit the mark with their collaboration...Fans of more traditional zombie tales will appreciate the quick pacing and familiar tropes, and those who just don’t know if they can take one more story about the undead would do well to try this one. Feminism is alive and well in Feral."
--Booklist

"A bloody tale of apocalypse...Told from multiple perspectives, this nail-biter, packed with plenty of gore to satisfy horror fans, offers a neat woman-power twist on the zombie-apocalypse story and a surprisingly poignant, satisfying finale."
--Publishers Weekly

"It is a fresh take on an old trope that also explores the nature of humanity and the relationships we forge with each other, often finding moments of touching vulnerability among the horrors of this new world...The zombie story has been done many times before, but not quite like this."
--This is Horror

"Feral is a novel of hard left turns. Just when you think the story is heading one way, authors DeMonaco and Evenson twist the wheel and the reader finds him/herself barreling down another twisty path. It’s fast-paced, action-packed, and screams for a movie adaptation. So let's do the math: (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER – vampires) + (THE WALKING DEAD – zombies) + (ROMEO AND JULIET – family feuds and suicide pacts) = FERAL. It adds up. Feral is recommended."
--Bookgasm

"Feral is well-paced but not too fast, with a tight storyline, solid character development, and a unique take on the post-apocalyptic survival story...the book makes for some great summer reading."
--Horror Talk

Good, but not amazing.

This book started off strong and hooked me in immediately, but I was quickly thrown off by the multiple points of view. The switch between first person point of view and third person didn't offer anything to the story and seemed unnecessary. I actually stopped listening for a while in lieu of better narrated books but I came back to this book repeatedly because the premise of the story was interesting and made you want to know what happened.

It's an interesting take on an apocalypse and I was invested in hearing about the ferals, but many of the characters were annoying and juvenile, which is probably the point but it was hard to listen to them make dumb choices over and over and over. The story is very plot driven making some of the choices almost too stupid just to continue the plot instead of being interested in the characters choice.

Overall this story had great potential, and was an okay listen, but it won't be one that I will listen to or read again like I do with my favorites.

It was okay . . .

The story started off much stronger than it ended. The different viewpoints weren't so great, especially when it switched to third person. also, The attempts to show emotion and intensity often fell flat, and it was quite predictable. less than halfway through, It was very clear what was going on and what would happen. Still, as a YA book, it wasn't bad.

very enjoyable

I recommend this one, plot has been done before, but still a good read. I didn't understand, why there were so many different narrators, but you get use to it. check this one out

Great post apocalyptic tale!

I loved the storytelling, the intensity, and the characters. Really wish this would become a book series!

pretty dang good

I have 780 novels not one did I ever buy that included romance. Not my thing I'm a 39 year old married man. Even though these characters are young it makes you remember your youth and your first love. There are strong female characters which is cool, as a man it's crazy to think about one of the characters and how that would be. overall it's a great book, I'm glad I bought it.