Listening to the audio book was weird as sometimes you could not differentiate between characters voices ( )

*audiobook review
Do you love horror? Do you love laughing at the craziest of things while dealing with a hoard of zombies at your heels? What about being transported to another dimension- one that's worse than the one you'd previously fought to survive in and then there are smarter zombies. Along with those intelligent Z's, you have strange, alien monsters that eat both humans and the zombies when they're not riding choppers? then you've found the right series!

From the author who wrote the incredible Zombie Fallout series, here's Mark Tufo, collaborated with another great writer, John O'Brien. He's written books as popular as Leaving Las Vegas (also a movie) and A New World series. Together, they've created a world that's way too scary and hilarious because it's part of the incredible world of Mike Talbot. If you know Mike Talbot, you know these books are not just written well, they're hilarious.

Okay, so Mike and Trip have been transported to another dimension... A world where there are smarter zombies and a few other creatures, straight out of nightmares. There's also another traveler, taken from his own apocalyptic world, leaving behind a wife and children. Together, and sometimes apart, the three of them attempt to survive in a land where everything is just wrong and to their major disadvantage. Can you tell I loved these books?

​ Also, all of Mark Tufo's... For more, http://bit.ly/1PqhIs7 ( )

ABR's full Whistlers (A Shrouded World Book 1) audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.

A Shrouded World – Whistlers follows the survival story of Jack Walker and Michael Talbot (with his companion John the Tripper) as they navigate a new zombie apocalypse world, different from each of their own. Trapped in this new world they have to find a way to stay alive as unique types of zombie threaten them.

A zombie apocalypse novel, it’s different from what little I have seen before. Most stories that I’ve read or seen involved one type of zombie creature. However, in this novel, there are multiple unique zombie types with different strengths and weaknesses. The plot itself was pretty simple in the sense that the characters are trying to survive different dangers, but they don’t actually move much distance in the world. And so the story is dependent on the characters’ personalities. Fortunately, all three were well defined and unique, which made their interactions fun to experience. Jack and Michael are military men, and John is a perpetually high hippie. John is clearly the comic relief in the novel, but there are hints to his importance that may come to light in future novels. However, the dependence on one or two characters perspectives in a novel involving three human characters, made my interest lag sometimes. While the inner monologues were often good, I think more dialogue could have made it more dynamic. It’s clear that this is a first novel of many. While the book comes to an end, it’s more like coming to an end of a section of to a novel rather than an entire novel. It’s clear that there is more to come and at the end of the novel, the hanging threads are laid out clearly.

This novel is told from two different points of view, Michael and Jack. One aspect of the novel, which takes a little getting used to, is that the voices of Jack Walker and Michael are different tenses. It’s unusual and doesn’t necessarily distract, but it’s noticeable. It’s an interesting complement to the confused and isolated emotions that the characters are feeling in a new, but still somewhat familiar world.

The narration was nuanced and wonderful. The characters were easily distinguished from one another through the tone of the narrator and that made the novel easy to follow and experience. This was especially great when there are multiple points of view. The voices ascribed to the different characters were also fitting to the individual styles of speech.

This isn’t a genre that I normally choose to read and I enjoyed the novel. However, I think it could’ve been improved with more characters. Female perspectives or characters would have made it more diverse and perhaps a little more dynamic.

Audiobook provided for review by the author. ( )