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Mail Horror Bride
- One Nation Under Zombies, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mark Westfield
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
From Russia, with love....
How do you destroy your enemy? Go for the heart then take over the brain.
The Z1219 virus, created by Russia's most skilled scientists, is the deadliest biological weapon in history. Harbored in the human bloodstream, it remains undetected until detonated. Once it's detonated, the host becomes a walking corpse with only one goal: eat everyone.
And now it is in America, packaged in the mail-order brides the Russians shipped over to destroy us all.
With the disease now running rampant and no cure yet discovered, it is every uninfected person for himself.
Homes are destroyed and the families inside them torn apart. Relationships can help or hurt, as those left uninfected discover they are not entirely untouched by the disease.
Follow a group of strangers as they struggle to do anything necessary to survive without losing their humanity in the process. Some will win this challenge. Most will lose.
It's a new world, and the zombies aren't the only monsters. They're just the easiest to recognize in a country gone horribly wrong.
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- Natalie @ ABookLoversLife
- 10-01-20
Loved this!
Thousands of Russian mail order brides were sent to the US with a deadly virus injected into them. It wasn't till the Russians pushed the kill button that the virus activated and the mail order brides died and became Zombies. Only thing is that the virus can be spread through sex and/or biting, so every man they had sex with got the virus, though it wasn't activated in them till they died. When the virus is unleashed, it's so fast and unexpected that the US is taken by surprise. Within a matter of days the country is overrun and all that's left to do is survive!
This was such a pleasant surprise! The name and cover are a bit off putting and made me think this was a cheesy Zombie book, but believe me when I say that it's not!!! It's a story of survival, it's a journey through the minds of people left amid chaos.
We have a cast of multiple characters so I'm not going to go through them all. I will say that they are all well written and developed. They are quite a colourful cast too!! We have Raven, a teen who is on holiday with her family when the outbreak happens. She is looking after her 9 yr old sister but she succumbs to the Zombies and poor Raven carries that guilt with her. We have Maura, who is crazy with a capital C!! She goes to her exes house intent on revenge because he left her for a Russian mail order bride. Of course she finds him in a bad way. This girl is seriously crazy but I'm not going to say what she does because that would spoil it!!!Lol. We also have Cruz, a Hollywood actor who hears voices in his head when he doesn't take his medicine! Throw in a fugitive and a girl with no remorse and you have the cast of this!!
The plot, while definitely fictional, is totally believable. I mean the idea of a dormant virus being injected into unsuspecting girls could happen! It just wouldn't reanimate them ;)
Anyway, this was a seriously excellent survival tale. It's not the blood and guts Zombie book but one of focusing on the characters and the aftermath of the virus! We get to see the outbreak happen, then we get to see different groups surviving and ultimately meeting up. I loved this and listened to it in a day, though that ending was killer, literally ;) Haha!! Definitely can highly recommend!
While Mark Westfield did a good job considering all the characters, I found his reading to be a little flat at times. I wanted more intenseness and energy when the Zombies were there. Also a few of the characters sounded the same. I still enjoyed it though!
I was given this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. This in no way affected nor influenced my thoughts.
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- Andromeda's Twin
- 13-07-19
Great story
I was inititailly attracted to this one by the premise, I love the idea of a zombie outbreak being triggered by mail order brides, horrible but definitely a great opening for a zombie apocalypse story.
The story was entertaining, swift moving, unlike some slow plodders in the zombie genre, the zombies themselves, however, are the slow plodding variety which is just as well as the survivors, in the main, have to make do with blades and hammers as their means of defense. I can appreciate that, living in the UK that'd be all I could use too, only in my case it'd be a Chef's knife and a meat mallet.
The characters were intriguing and have me interested in the idea of pursuing book two and hoping for a third.
I loved the narrator, totally perfect for this book, and for my ears so carry on narrating please Mr Westfield.
I received my copy free of charge and happily leave this review which honestly reflects my opinion of the produciton.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- J Smith
- 18-07-19
Couldn’t finish
I find it really difficult to not finish a book, but I’ve tried a few times and just can’t.
I’m sure it’s a great story and narrator, I just feel it’s a little childish for such a dark setting (zombies everywhere, but a woman screaming at her ex for marrying someone else when they were separated). Feel bad as I hate leaving books unfinished, but I really did try.
This is my honest opinion of a free review copy.
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