A great book helped by the “Bray Effect”

5 out of 5 stars

This book would have most likely gotten 5 stars without R.C. Bray, but if I could give it more, I would.  Bray is so incredibly talented it’s crazy.  His narration of The Retreat: Pandemic was just perfect.  The voices were perfect and the laughs were so good they gave me chills.

The Retreat: Pandemic was a book I read (what felt) too close to another Bio-Thriller.  But, with most Post-Apocalyptic books; this takes place right after the pandemic starts.  There wasn’t too much in this about the virus (or contagion), but I’m really curious if this will be left to other books and prequels.  (Dear Mr. DiLouie, sir.  If you can tap Richard Preston for a prequel that shows how this virus started, I would probably faint).

This is definitely a book for those who love military style post-apocalyptic novels.  It revolves around a combat-ready soldier who is trying to get himself and other soldiers to safety.

The story itself was very well written.  I couldn’t tell that three authors wrote this together. It definitely felt like one awesome, gory, and scary book. The “clowns” as they are called are creepy-as-f.  Honestly, I shouldn’t have listened to this at night so close to going to bed.  The description and the incredibly gruesome ways that people were killed and tortured at their hands should have given me nightmares.

The Retreat: Pandemic sits somewhere in the nook and crannies of numerous genres including Military Fiction, Bio-Thrillers, Horror, and Post-Apocalyptic.

I really hope that there are more books in this series, and I really hope that Blue Heron Audio continues to tap R.C. Bray to narrate them.  I will eat them up… and laugh while doing it.

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Brian

I’ve loved reading since I was little when my dad would read me Dr. Suess books. Fast-forward a little and I noticed that he was always reading on his lunch breaks at work, and I wondered why.Then, I found a book that took me to another place and time, to another feeling,another sense of “being”.It was the first book that I ever fell in love with, and I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.

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