The Remaining

By: D. J. Molles

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Someday soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his mission: Subvenire refectus. To rescue and rebuild.

The Remaining is the first book in the best-selling series, which tells a gritty tale of survival, perseverance and fighting to get back what has been lost.

©2012 D.J. Molles (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Zombies... kind of

I liked the first book a lot, so much I spent my next credit on the second book.

One of my favorites

Truly great!
The story, the narroration, everything I listen over and over again! The whole series is a must listen!

Solid Post Apocalyptic Zombie Story

I had got this two years ago, got burned out on Zombie stories, and just now got around to this one, but this seems much more enjoyable than other I have read/listened too. It has a good main character and a very solid Narrator. Great narrators are key for me to be interested. I have not decided if I will jump into the rest of the series as I have four years minimum of books on my wish list, but I just might revisit this one sometime later on.

that damn freaking kid

I am writing the review while listening to the book because I'm furious at a character lmao. the author did a great job in setting up a situation because I cannot remember feeling this flabbergasted at a character's action and resulting epic failure. made me have to keep listening to find out how the issue would be resolved.

WOW. Great storytellling.

This is a really good book! A lot of the storytelling is a bit over the top, but its action adventure! It's suppose to be exciting and compelling.

Narrator is Great, the gritty details of the action adventure are awesome. The author must have some real survival training to get some of the granular details to the story. And when surviving, it's about the details.

Super entertaining. I typically don't like zombie genera, but I liked this. The character detail is almost too good. You get a feel for the characters as real people and friends. But it's the apocalypse, and when bad things happen it can break your heart.

Really enjoyed this!!

I actually bought this book a while ago. And I never started it. Then I finished a book. And decided to start listening to it. And I found that I absolutely enjoyed it. I love apocalypse stories and I love zombies. And I really loved the narrator. And main character was very interesting as well. I enjoyed this kind of take on an apocalypse. I never get bored with any kind of zombie novel. I definitely recommend this book for any zombie lover or anyone who enjoys post-apocalyptic books. I can't wait to read the rest! Well listen to the rest.

Great book!

I usually don't go for the "zombie" apocalypse books, but this series is different. This really isn't about "zombies" at all...., sure there are "infected" that try and eat the normal humans, but these infected aren't the main focus of the series. It's mostly the integration of different regular people that propels this series, and the infected are just a detail to add intensity to the story.

The narration is the best I've heard, and I've listened to the Game of Thrones series on audiobooks. The narrator reads it with so many different inflections that you can't help but hang on every word, and react to each new situation.

Truly an amazing series with a very talented narrator. I can't recommend it higher.

An average zombie book

This was neither a bad or a great book! it simply was very much a very average zombie book. it felt like someone checked off boxes on a spreadsheet in order to make it. fortunately for the book the main character is marginally interesting. if I catch the second book one sale I will probably buy it. but until that point I probably would not spend a credit to get it.

Serviceable zombie/survival story but not a lot new

The author does a great job at keeping the momentum going, but there’s not enough character development for me to feel that invested in the story and characters. For example, the kid that Lee rescues in the beginning of the book and who had an interesting back story, is rarely mentioned after his key scene even though he’s along for the ride for the second half of the book. I enjoyed this one but definitely won’t be investing in the rest of the series.

There are also a lot of concepts borrowed from other similar books: the fast not undead zombies (28 days later), pack/herd behavior (Cell).

Wow… gritty reality... really well done

I just finished The Remaining and am in the process of downloading the second one as I write this. I was almost turned it off during the first forth of this book because of how dark the situation the main character finds himself in was and how real and impactful the violence felt.
However, I couldn't get the story out of my head and so I had to go back.
This is a really powerful story about a post apocalyptic world that is much more realistic and detail oriented then many others I've read.
If you don't mind some harsh language, and fighting and pain that is so real that you almost feel like it is happening to you, then I highly recommend that you read this book.
It was gruesomely awesome.