loved it, but it is not a complete series...

loved the book, but paid my money for a complete series, as I like to experience books in full, only to find after investing many hours that it is not complete at all!
please do not advertise as complete when there is still a book to write, so disappointing when it is all comin to a conclusion!

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Black Flagged ... Not complete!!

I started this ‘Complete Series’ thinking this is good value and it really is quite action packed if not a little disjointed and overly detailed in others. But the final kicker is it not being complete and that’s very frustrating!!

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very good listen but.....

Really enjoyed this box set , trouble is it's called the complete series. I was disappointed to reach the end and realised it's not finished, also really disappointed there seems to be no sign of the next book .

Still a good listen though .

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The potential for a great box set

I must admit i was totally enthralled by the first 3 books but the final book left me bemused. The jumps were very dramatic. In some parts the attention to detail was amazing but then in other parts very slap dash. Is there a follow up book?

Are there fully unabridged books available? I think lots of my questions may well be answered as they ended up on the editing room floor.

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i wish i had read the reviews

For the use of one credit it was well worth it, some interesting plot lines and some real drama, i really enjoyed the Alex Fletcher series so was looking forward to this series. On the whole i enjoyed it, despite being very disjointed due to the editing of the downloads. the big problem is that it seemed to run out of steam so rehashed previous scenarios in different guises and some of the action was very hard to believe, and then it stopped ! i thought i had got the tracks out of sequence or there was something that didn't download. Sadly it wasn't. After 67 hours your left hanging like an old Batman episode on tv. Don't miss next weeks exciting episode, same bat time, same bat channel,............... but there isn't one !!!

if you like an end, any kind of end to a story this is not for you.

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It's different, but in a good way

Ooh, a boxed set, and all for one credit. Bargain. I'll have that. First of all, it's actually one story in several volumes - think 'Lord Of The Rings' - so you're not getting lots of different books, just one long one.
To begin with it did seem looong. Not much happened after the scenario was explained. Lots of loving family stuff and random technical equipment introduced - mostly in quite a lot of detail, presumably so those preparing for a pandemic with violence will know exactly what to buy. However I began to realize that what I was reading was not some gung ho Rambo type of novel but a realistic 'what would quite possibly happen given the circumstances' type of novel. The gradual and 'natural' breakdown of a small community given the situation was well written and well paced. Others have commented on a perceived poor/ lack of ending. I didn't find that. I thought it wrapped up quite well. I'm not sure it ends up on my must listen again pile (not many do) but it is a thoughtful book/series and kept me listening all day for several days. Money well spent.

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Every book is worth reading at least once

I believe that every book and film is worth seeing at least once. The art of telling the story. I could just not get in to this one... If its John Grisham the way you fall in to the story, the narrative you want to know more and more, with this one... I should have probably read it not listened to it... it like the narrator is bored and mumble for the sake of mumbling... ruined the book

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Not the complete collection!

This is a reasonable airport paperback stand "thriller". A reasonable plot with a couple of good twists however, the writing isn't great.

Be warned though, after investing 60+ hours of your life into this series you will end up needing to fork out for at least two more before you actually get to the end!

Dissapointing considering the package is billed as the compete series. A simple Google search alerts you to the fact that there are at least 7 books in this series. That's on me but, I hope anyone else who goes for this reads this and knows what they will be getting.

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Not literature, but a way to pass the monotony

It isn't up there with the thrillers that make you really strive to think it all through. But when I have 3000 screws to put in a roof, it's good long fodder to get me through the day. Nothing wrong with it except perhaps the incessant naming of guns and the diameter of their ammunition.

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Fizzles out in the end

Narration extremely annoying with detailed location read out at the start of each chapter, even when neither the location nor characters have changed since the previous chapter (several chapters in a row on occasions). Also “x” is always narrated as the letter instead of as “times” when describing magnification - sounds very silly.
Writing is frequently heavily over-detailed, e.g. the size of each individual bullet fired is utterly immaterial and is obviously used to “pad-out” the story. This tends to make it ‘clunky’ and disturbs the flow.
OK but nothing special.