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  • By: Brad Manuel
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (231 ratings)

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By: Brad Manuel
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Imagine being alone in the world, one of only a handful to survive a global pandemic. Not only do you struggle to find food, water, and shelter but you also deal with the sadness and losing everyone you know and everything you have.

Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon is living that nightmare. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. His classmates and teachers are dead, rotting in a dormitory-turned-morgue steps from his room. The nights are getting colder, and his food has run out. The last message from his father is to get away from the city and to meet at his grandparents' town in remote New Hampshire. Knowing the impending New England winter could be the final nail in his coffin, Greg packs what little food he can find and sets off on his 100-mile walk north with the unwavering belief that his family is alive and will join him.

As the fast-moving and deadly disease strips away family and friends, Greg's father, John, is trapped in South Carolina. Roadblocks, a panic-stricken population, and winter make it impossible for him to get to his son. John and his three brothers appear to be immune, but they are scattered across a locked-down United States, forced to wait for the end of humanity before travelling to the mountains of New Hampshire.

Spring arrives, and the Dixons make their way north to find young Greg. They meet others along the way, slowly forming the last tribe of humanity from the few people still alive in the Northeast.

©2015 Brad Manuel (P)2016 Podium Publishing

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  • Nominated: 2017 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

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Be warned...this is AWFUL!

First up this is an awful book!
If you enjoy well written books with captivating storylines and great characters then DON'T buy this book.
I wish I had not been sucked in by the positive reviews because I feel I have completely wasted my credit on this rubbish...in fact it is so bad I am going to ask audible for my money back on it.

There is nothing redeeming about this book whatsoever...even the great Scott Brick cannot make this rubbish better.
It feels like it was badly written by an amateur or high school student, and is in desperate need of editing. Was this even edited at all?
Most of the time sentences had me rolling my eyes in frustration at how bad the writing was..I'm warning you now, it is atrocious.
It has hours and hours of pointless boring superfluous descriptions, non believable characters and storylines, awful dialogue...I'm halfway though and I cannot even finish it. It's one of the worst books I've ever listened to.

(By the way Brad Manuel, dogs have LEGS...not ARMS)

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No antagonist

Other than the end of civilian nothing goes wrong, there's no challenge. Food miraculously appears just in time. People just happen to have the requisite skills, bad people have miraculous reversals of character. There are no twists, no faced paced page turning chances, no pathos. Where are the deaths of central characters from septicaemia, starvation, murder or misadventure? It's a nice realistic story but we've been spoiled by the Abacrombie's and R.R. Martin's of the world and this story just roles along from easy success to easy success. Sorry, does not cut it for me. I'm abandoning the book.

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really good read

this was a very good book. I enjoyed it a lot. As always Scott Brick was the right guy for the job and the story kept me hooked. Worth the 20 plus hrs and worth the money.

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great performance but terrible story

The narration is just wonderful but the story is lacking depth. All of the characters are the same and every problem is solved too easily. It's a bit of a yawn.

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Great book

I know it wasn't full of evil people and bad stuff like some people expected but that's why I loved this book. Nice to see people coming together and their journeys to a new life.

Really enjoyed the narration too.

Going hunting for more books by this author

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Refreshing change

Most apocalyptic stories i have read or listened to always go on the theme of doom and gloom.
It was great to hear a different take, a tribe making the best of it and not only surviving but thriving. A big far fetched i guess in parts but i loved some of the characters and enjoyed it.
Each to there own :)

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What a journey this book takes you on.

I loved this book.
the journal it took me on was so enjoyable.
I didnt want it to End

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Great read

Truly wonderful

Got lost in the wonderful characters

I will read again very soon

So unique

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Good listen

I saw a comment calling this 'The apocalypse by Betty Crooker' and that's EXACTLY what I loved about this book!

Not all apocalyptic books have to follow the same formula of men r*** women, fight each other for power blah blah blah.

I loved that this book focused on the kinder side of humanity.

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Recommend by multiple people

this was recommended by heaps of readers on a forum about non zombie survival and I thouraghly enjoyed it. I also recommend it and have nothing bad to say about it!

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