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  • The Compound: Book One

  • A Post Apocalytpic tale of Urban Survival
  • By: BJ Garcia
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

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The Compound: Book One

By: BJ Garcia
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

What would you do if the world as you knew it suddenly came crashing down around you?

A financial system in shambles, America slowly slips closer and closer toward collapse.

As everything is in ruin, a suburban city burns.

As small group of unlikely survivors bands together to weather the storm. A few well prepared, well-armed, and well-trained friends band together. Police Officer John Gonzalez, recently wounded in the line of duty, rallies his group of thrown-together friends into a tight group to survive the end of the world as we know it in the City of Kankakee, an hour South of Chicago.

This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
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Virtual Voice is disappointing

Pretty good overall story and storyline. Interested in seeing where it goes. Virtual is really bad in my opinion.

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a I has to go .

good story but can't stand the a I narration. I have words to go before I can submit my review wondering if this is enough.

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no ai

good book AI is dry and dull doesn't pronounce a lot of the words right kills the book

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ai voice

the AI voice definitely hurt the book im not a fan of the ai voice it was just dull

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Amazing book! Loved every minute

Unique take on a very complex literary genre. Great characters, good action, and fun thought experiment!

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No emotion

Loved the story and think it would’ve been so much better with an actual narrator. The AI lacked emotions and had issues pronouncing certain words which distracted from story. If there is a book 2 I hope the author reads these reviews and decides to have an actual human read the audible version

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boo on virtual voices

The designers of the virtual voices need to improve on the emotional part of telling the stories. I would have liked this book much more if there were variations of voices and emotion to the speaker.

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great story.

would have been an awesome listen, except the AI narration really sucked. no emotion, just a very bland "reading".

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A solid read with interesting character development

Interesting storyline from a new author. Virtual voice rated a solid 3 1/2 stars, and better than some live narrators. The odd pronunciation and interpretation of some words was distracting, but overall done well. When is book 2 coming out?

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can't handle the bland narration

We're it not for the lifeless narration this most likely would be a good book. I could only handle a couple hours of it.

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