Zombie Island (NA Version)

Zombie Apocalypse, Book 1

By: Samantha Hoffman

Narrated by: Melissa Akers

Sam has survived months alone at the end of the world–a world destroyed not only by the undead, but those left who are strong enough to do what is necessary to survive. The city has become too dangerous with the looming threat of ex-soldiers that destroy everything in their path. After a chance encounter with them leaves Sam on their hit-list, she flees the city with help from the redneck brothers that saved her. Together with a timid girl rescued from the soldiers, they set out for an island near her hometown–a hopeful refuge from the broken world around them. The journey there is full of threats from zombies and other survivors, but the hope of a home free from constant danger pushes them to keep moving forward.

©2023 Samantha Hoffman (P)2025 Samantha Hoffman

Good start to the story, bad narration.

I am halfway thru the book, and really getting into the story. However, maybe with more practice or if narrator had read the story first before narrating; I don’t know. With her narrative the MFC sounds like a 16 year old with a lisp. The MFC sound like 16 year old boys going thru puberty. Sometimes it sounds like narrator is speaking into tin can, other times thru foam - idk how to describe.

I can’t read books anymore due to eye sight, so have been waiting for this book to become available on audible. Now, I am hoping I can finish the book on audible, as it is a good start to what could be a good story. Either way, definitely recommend the book - if you can read it. No offense to narrator, but the mispronouncing of words and drawn out when not appropriate, along with the rush thru other parts, really disrupts the readers ability to imagine what is going on. More practice, replaying and listening, and enunciating words, would benefit the narrator. Like really, listen to what you just recorded, you would understand how bad it is.