The Infected (Book 1 of The Infected series)

By: Scott Ganley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

It began as a terrorist attack against the United States and Europe. Middle Eastern terrorist squads infected with a virus engineered to strike at the heart of the Western world in the name of Islam.
When the virus mutated without warning, the infection took on a dimension and scale beyond any rational explanation.
Spreading across the globe like wildfire, it left millions dead in its wake.
Worse than the initial body counts are those that suffered catastrophic and irreversible brain damage.
The infected retain nothing of their former selves and instead they are reborn in an aggressive animal-like state with the sole impulse to find and kill the small handful of survivors immune to the virus.

Hunter served proudly in the Iraqi war until a sniper’s bullet cut his career short. Now back in the civilian world, he is working hard to make the adjustment from soldier to a private citizen.
Life in rural Kentucky is boring and monotonous after serving many years in the Army and traveling the world. However, overnight the world had changed and he wanted nothing more than to return to that quiet boring life.

Teaming up with a small group of survivors they flee the dangerous population centers in search of refuge in the countryside. He soon finds that the infected are not the only thing he must fear as disillusioned survivors start to see an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and turmoil for their own selfish needs and desires. Hunter must now lead a band of civilian and military survivors to safety against impossible odds.

bringing all the people to a point of meeting

well written it runs smooth well thought out loved the story. it is believable hope it does not go this way.

Didn’t really hold my attention

I don’t know if it was the AI narration, or the story itself. But this book didn’t hold my attention. The AI use of nine hundred eleven in place of 911 really irked me! Another glaring issue with AI voice narration is their failure to convey proper emotion. Stating that a character yelled, or screamed, or any type of emotion is lost. 

Virtual voice was awful

I tried to hang with this story but just couldn’t. The virtual voice has zero inflection and mispronounced so many words that I had to go back multiple times to figure out what was being said.
The story had promise but the narration killed it so I stopped mid book.
No more virtual voice narrators for me, it horrid.

Could of been different

Overall, the story was good. Where the story fell short was with the narrator. I think they should’ve spent a little extra money and had an actual real-life breathing human narrate. The story was too robotic and lacked motion. When it came down to crucial inflections of voice or scenes in the book was very mechanical, not realistic on how people would actually talk. That would have made it a 5 start bold for me.

excellent story, very enjoyable

I was surprised that a virtual reader sounded so good. if I hadn't been told I wouldn't have known. Only telltale was when reader said 9 hundred and eleven for 911.
As for the story, I enjoyed it very much and have already started Book 2 and have been enjoying this too. I've started looking for next in series when I finish Book 2.

hard to follow

I hate when they use the virtual voice AI that is heartless and has no soul because you can't tell when it's an important part of the story line because the voice is so flat you don't know who's talking at a certain point the characters are hard to distinguish and follow along with the storyline

predictable.. nothing unique

Virtual voice screws up many words, frustrating that people dial "nine hundred eleven" for help. Book is supposedly 1st of 3 books but 2 and 3 are not on audible. At the very end author tries to set an emotional hook where the Captain gets kissy faced with main character.

AI reader is HORRIBLE

the ai is horrible. i t just goes on and on with no inflection in the voice. Hardly and stopping between sentences, Miss pronounced words, I finally gave up. I will try to find the series yo read.

pony up for a real human narrator

This is the first AI narration I listened to and it will probably be my last. while the voice sounded human everything was spoken in the same emotionless tone. There were also a couple of typos that a human would naturally correct but AI read as written. it was humorous when the narrator would swear or say something was supposed to be very emotional but it just sounded like background exposition.

the virtual voice is hell

I loved story line hated narration due to dead pan voice narration.use real people n it's a winner