Plague

A Logan Reed Thriller, Book 1

By: Matthew James

Narrated by: Maxwell Zener

A strange virus has resurfaced in the Serengeti, not seen since the Second World War, infecting man and beast alike. Its victims soon become violent, viciously attacking anything that wanders into their path.

Logan Reed, a former Australian Special Forces soldier turned African game warden, is at the front line of this disastrous outbreak. Together with his team, including his sister, a Serengeti Zoologist, Logan searches for clues to the contagion's origin in hopes that knowing where it came from will help them stop it.

And they'd better hurry.

It's spreading....

©2016 Matthew James (P)2017 Matthew James

Points for a interesting take on the undead

Let's start with the good stuff and work our way down.

The narration is excellent. I was a little concerned that the Australian hero's accent would come off too "Crocodile Hunter". That was not the case. The accents are well done and not over the top.

The story is unique and full of action. Poachers uncover a Nazi research facility in Africa and a plague infects them and the local wildlife. I would describe them as a hybrid, zombie/vampire creature. They evolve the longer they are alive and the more they eat. This makes for some creepy adaptations as the wildlife evolve.

Here is where it sort of goes off the rails. The game warden and his band of park rangers are ridiculously outfitted. As the story goes on and the threat increases, the armament needed to combat the plague, just happens to be laying around. I think finding a better way, rather than a bigger gun, would have kept the story a little more grounded in reality. As much as a zombie/vampire animals attack book could be, anyway.

"This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."

An enjoyable take on "Zombie" genre

An enjoyable take on "Zombie" genre. Good characters. Good story development. Good narration, especially with the accents. Ending left room for a sequel. Which I will be looking for. I am glad I listened to this. Good entertainment. I received this for free for an honest review.

Action Adventure with Zombies and Nazis

This is the usual fast paced retired special forces adventure with the addition of zombies and Nazis. Of course the zombies are both human and animal which adds some twists and lots of flying lead, but nothing really compelling. The plot is so over the top that it hard to take the characters seriously. The crazy Nazi scientists has been done to death and this is not any more believable.
The book was narrated quite well by Maxwell Zener who dealt with the large variety of characters and accents pretty well.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Plague

Not quite sure how I feel about this book. I think this book would have been better shorter. I liked the narrator. I received this audiobook for free through Audiobook Boom for my unbiased review.

A Different War

This is my 1st listen by author and was not bad. It is about an injured soldier, Logan who goes to the Serengeti to become a game warden at the insistence of his sister Cassidy (CJ). It has good character development also enjoyed Fritz. It is full of action, violence; gore as well as mutated animals and humans that are monstrous that spread like a post-apocalyptic story with Nazi involvement. Recommend to anyone who enjoys monster /military thrillers. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. Thank you