The Infected (Book 1 of The Infected series)

By: Scott Ganley

Narrated by: 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. 

Good story bad narrator

I like the story but the narrator definitely needs to brush up on either their reading skills or their english skills or both

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.

Strong characters, good storyline

Not a fan of Virtual Voice AKA AI. The male voice itself is fine, however the endless mispronunciations and missing nuances to common phrases are annoying and take away from an otherwise great book. Will definitely continue the series.

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.