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Origins of the Outbreak

By: Brian Parker
Narrated by: Veronica Fox
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Every epidemic begins with a relatively small group of people who've been exposed to an illness. The Centers for Disease Control believes that it is imperative to reach the site of an initial outbreak as quickly as possible in order to prevent further spread of the disease. Sometimes that isn't always possible, and events reach a catastrophic tipping point before the government can organize a response.

Origins of the Outbreak follows the chain of infection from one person to another after a university researcher in a small Texas town unwittingly develops a disease that turns its victims into zombies and threatens to destroy the world as we know it.

Told as a series of short stories from the perspective of each victim as they experience their own version of hell while struggling to survive, Origins will leave you gasping in fear.

©2014 Brian Lee Parker (P)2015 Brian Lee Parker Anthologies & Short Stories Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Multiple Perspectives • Unique Storytelling Approach • Excellent Narration • Nonstop Action • Unexpected Ending
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This was a really good virus to zombies to containment book.I liked the way the chapters were laid out and the ending was great! Veronica Fox was a fine narrator.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Origins of the outbreak

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Excellent look into the various perspectives of different people at the beginning of an outbreak.

The multiple short stories were great, and seeing characters return as zombies for future stories was hilarious.

Narration was excellent.

"This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."

Great look into how a zombie outbreak would spread

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You must like zombies to enjoy the book which I found interesting as it was stories in stories of each character’s exposure to the virus as it starts in Texas. It is very descripted and gory but fun listen. It is an early book from author and highly recommend his Five Roads to Texas series and Washington Dead City series. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. Thank you!

An Early Zombie Book

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Numerous vignettes examining classes and professions of people on how the apocalypse affected individual lives while describing the ultimate spread of the infection. Not one of my favorites from Brian Parker. I prefer more substance in my novels; something I can get into rather than a bunch of short stories. Three.point.five. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Not my cup of undead!

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This book was given to me at my request and I am providing a voluntary review:

It is impossible to hate this book. There are so many different characters and they are all so different. If you dislike one guy, two pages later, its something else completely. I know that it sounds like it would get confusing, but it doesn't. It all works. I'm a big fan. I am like 80% done with the book so I cant speak to its ending yet, but since I was here, I figured I'd write something. Awesome Book and Amazing narration. I hope to read more from this author.

You cant hate this....

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Really liked this book! Spoiler alert!!! Love that almost everyone dies that come into contact with the zombies!!! You don't see that to much in these books! Lots of action , just non stop! Narration Was on point , great job. Great book to add to your collection!

Great Book!

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I've listened to probably hundreds of zombie books and this one has a unique way of telling the story. You don't get attached to the characters, because it's dozens of short stories. It's told in real time, like 1:00 p.m., 5 minutes is spent on this character and how she becomes infected.....1:05, here's 10 minutes with a new character and how he gets infected......1:15, 15 minutes with another character........10:00, here's 10 minutes with a new character and how she gets infected by character #2 from earlier. At first, I was a little weary of this style, because I couldn't get invested in the characters. Half way through, I loved it! By the end, I had found a new favorite author! Oh, the narrator did a fantastic job also.

Unique

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This has everything you need for a balls to the walls zombie novel
Told from the point of view of multiple victims the gory action is nonstop
The narrator was excellent voicing a large cast
If you haven’t listen to Brian’s work before this is a great place to start
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Loved it

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This book ends up being a collection of short stories that are told from the point of view of the different characters as a killer zombie virus is set set free and spread.
Put like this it may sound boring, but it reality it worked out really well as most of the stories (specially in the beginning) share a comum tread. As with the classic movie genre, there are the sex theme, the nerds, the fun jokes, and a lot more of the usual stereotypes. It still ends up being an original and funny story. The ending is also quite unexpected for this kind of stories.
Zombie stories is not my favourite theme but I do love great stories and this one actually nailed it for me.
The narrator amazing job also helps a lot.
I will recommend for those that look for some different approach to the typical zombie theme stories.

Surprising and very good indeed

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This is multiple vignettes from the start of a zombie outbreak from one of the authors of the Five Roads to Texas series. Very enjoyable listen! I loved the multiple points of view from each story. So glad I got to listen to and enjoy this early book of Brian Parker. Narration was also good. I received this for free for an honest review.

Multiple zombie vignettes

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