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Title: We’re Alive, Season 1
Series: We’re Alive
Author: K C Wayland
Narrator: Full cast
Copyright: 2011, Modern Myth Productions
Duration: 10 hours, 20 minutes
Genres: horror, post apocolypse, suspense
Filed in: Audiobook Reviews
Review copy provided by Blackstone Audio.
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: This exciting audio drama is based on an immensely popular podcast that has received hundreds of positive reviews and has had over four million downloads - and counting.
For Army Reserve soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knows it ends in an instant. One minute he’s in college, and the next rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars and literally tearing people apart. This is the day the dead walk. This is the world of We’re Alive.
The first season features 12 chapters packing performances and sound effects that rival movies and prove that modern audio drama is undead and well. Join our survivors as they band together, struggle to fortify a safe haven known as the Tower, and discover that zombies are far from the worst thing in a post apocalyptic Los Angeles, where the rules of human decency no longer apply.
Little food. Little water. Little hope. Who is lucky enough to say "We're Alive"?
©2011 Modern Myth Productions, LLC (P)2011 Modern Myth Productions, LLC.
AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Your worst nightmare has just come true. One minute everything was fine: a warm sunny day in Los Angeles. Suddenly the day is split open by not so distant explosions. Within minutes they are everywhere. People, or what used to be people, roaming the streets, attacking the “normals.” Zombies? Call them what you want, but whatever you do, get out of their way, because those who don’t either become one of them, or they become a meal for one of them. So far we’re alive, but for how much longer?
United States Army reservist Michael Cross started out that terrible day like any other. He was attending his college classes when the call came, informing him that his reserve squad was being called in. In the bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic, he saw his first walking dead, ripping people from their cars and literally tearing them apart. Reaching the base after a narrow escape, Michael soon found that only two other members of his squad arrived safely: Saul who served with Michael in Iraq, and Angel, the lieutenant fresh out of officer training. The three soldiers armed themselves and began to formulate a plan.
What they really need, it is decided, is a place to hole up for a few days so they can see how things shake out. Angel’s fourteen-story apartment tower is not far from the base and it sounds like an ideal place: minimal ground-floor entrances, plenty of food and supplies in case they need to stay for a while, and room for more if they find other survivors. That much decided, they grab a Hum-vee from the base and make their way through streets that have already fallen deathly still.
The three intrepid soldiers have the best of intentions, but they have no idea what they’re in for. The epidemic has swept faster, and much farther, than anyone could expect. They think things will straighten out again soon and they can get back to their lives, but this is their lives now. They wil always have to be on the lookout for the deaders, and as they find more and more survivors, they will also realize that the deaders are not the only ones they need to look out for. Life as they know it is over, and the future is only about survival.
We’re Alive is the insanely popular podcast created and written by K C Wayland. Since May of 2009, it’s episodes have been appearing like clockwork at www.zombiepodcast.com for the listening pleasure of multitudes of fans. Just how many fans? According to Wayland, the current download tally is somewhere around 5.3 million. In format, We’re Alive is reminiscent of old-time radio, but your grandfather’s radio never sounded like this. Automatic gunfire, explosions, breaking glass, screeching tires, and blazing fires, you’ll feel like you’re in a battle zone. The sound and music enhancements are well done and greatly increase the dramatic feel of the production.
We’re Alive is a full cast audio production featuring the voice talents of Jim Gleason, Shane Salk, Nate Geez, Elisa Eliot, Claire Dodin, Scott Marvin, Jay Olegario, and Blaire Byhower among others. I thought the cast did a good job, always adding just the right amountof fear, trepidation, and edginess to their characterizations. This type of full cast production can be much more intense and dramatic than a typical audiobook with only one narrator. For more information, you can view the entire cast and crew of “We’re Alive.”
This is only season 1, which is now available in its entirety on CD from Blackstone Audio, and I’m hooked. The season finale twelfth episode ends with a nice little cliff-hanger that will definitely leave you thirsty for more.
FURTHER READING:
Read my exclusive interview with K C Wayland.
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