The Dead Don't Bleed

The Outbreak

By: S. Ganley, Scott Ganley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When There's No More Room in Hell… The Dead Will Walk the Earth.

It started small—a strange illness spreading through a New Jersey town after a minor natural disaster. Within hours, people fell sick. By the next day, they were dying. By the third, they were rising.

And by the end of the weekend, the world was gone.

Garrett Newton thought his biggest challenge would be adjusting to civilian life after a combat injury ended his military career. Instead of starting his new job, he’s running for his life as the dead flood the streets, hunting the living with mindless, relentless hunger.

With civilization collapsing around him, Garrett gathers a band of survivors and fights to escape the infected swarms overrunning the cities. But as the days drag on and hope fades, he faces a grim truth—there may be no rescue coming. No safe haven. No second chances.

The world belongs to the dead now… and the living are running out of time.

Fast paced with a few glaring hiccups

I want to say I enjoyed listening to this audio book. The virtual narrator voice didn’t sound (too) robotic. My only (huge) problem about the storyline is the way the author wrote about POC characters. It was as if the Mr. Ganley highlighted every negative stereotype he could find about non-white characters. And may I say that it was not only in this book but also with another book of his.

He referred to two girls as “ghetto bitches” or was it “ghetto black bitches”? Another time was describing a dead (I assume Latino) body by his worn out flannels and immediately the MFC assumed dead body was an undocumented immigrant. In another book of his he described rap music as “ghetto music”. The obvious micro aggressions pulled me out of what was cool apocalyptic world building. That’s it.

Nothing really stood out

This started out OK, But got less than joy, a bowl as it went on. It ended up being some thing I would have one in the background and not pay much attention to. Maybe it was the poor AI narration that kept me from connecting with this, but I thought it was just OK.

AI narrator is the worst

I loved the story but can’t get myself to continue listening because of the AI narration. So many mistakes, mispronounced words, and just plain wrong context. I spent half the time trying to figure out what was supposed to be said because it made no sense.

Virtual Voice

Is Amazon so hard up to make cash that they have to use a computer to read their books, and not even checked for numerous errors

Pay a person to read it.

Slightly racist stereotypes about minorities

Without the slightly stereotypes - I liked the story. It has been interesting so far. I think I can grow to like Miranda.