Pandemic Audiobook by Scott Sigler (REVIEW)

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Review of: Pandemic Audiobook
Audiobook:
Scott Sigler

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On September 22, 2015
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Summary:

Pandemic Audiobook

By: Scott Sigler

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Published by: Empty Set Entertainment 02/04/14

Pandemic

4 Hearts rating image Hot Listens

Infected #3

19 hrs and 55 mins

Genre: Horror

Pandemic Audiobook Sample

Pandemic Audiobook

4 Hearts

I saw this book on an Audible two for one credit and picked it up. The name of the narrator is what really caught my eye. Phil Gigante is well known in the paranormal romance and urban fantasy world for his work narrating Karen Marie Moning’s books. I’ve gotten to where I’m starting to find more and more new-to-me authors based on narrators and that is what happened here.

When I bought this book, I missed that this was the third book in a trilogy, or if I did notice, I had forgotten by the time I got around to listening to it. I didn’t even realize it when I started to listen to the book. The author provided a nice history in a prologue called “How It Began” that covers the history of how this Pandemic has evolved over the years.

The premise of this story is an alien Orbital comes to Earth with the plan of destroying all human life on the planet.There were eighteen probes on this Orbital with “seeds” on them that would infect the human race. The first few probes had no luck at all. Then they got closer and closer and the Orbital learned and got smarter with each attempt. It comes very close in stories that take place in earlier books. This story is the Orbital’s last chance.

The disease that these people get is highly contagious. The infected become homicidal and start killing everyone around, especially their family. The infected are pretty organized and have a plan to take over the world, starting with Chicago, which is ground zero in this story.

This story is told in third person and told from the point of view of several different people, including some of the infected. It gives interesting insight into how everyone each feels they need to handle the situation in order to survive, be it a newly converted or a human surviving the infection.

I really enjoyed watching this all play out and seeing it from the many different points of view. There are several twists and turns on the way which keeps the story very interesting. This story really had me on the edge of my seat and looking to things to do to keep listening. The only thing I can fault this audio for is there are a few sound effects which I didn’t like. I prefer an audio with just a narrator, especially when you have one as skilled as Phil Gigante.

Pandemic Audiobook Narration

5 Hearts

I’ve listened to Phil Gigante before. I loved him in Karen Marie Moning’s Highlander series. HIs ability to do many different Scottish accents in both men and women’s voices was miraculous. Now listening to this book, there were not as many different accents, but there were some and he handled those wonderfully. He also did a fabulous job with the crazy. You know how you can hear someone talk and tell they are just nuts? Yeah, that. He nails it with one of the characters in this book. Lastly, there are some people who turn into monsters, not just crazy infected humans. He does a great job with the monster. I highly recommend Phil Gigante as a narrator.  

Scott Sigler

Photo credit: © Joan Allen.

 

New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler is the creator of fifteen novels, six novellas and dozens of short stories. His works are available from Crown Publishing and Del Rey Books.

In 2005, Scott built a large online following by releasing his audiobooks as serialized podcasts. A decade later, he still gives his stories away — for free — every Sunday at scottsigler.com. His loyal fans, who named themselves “Junkies,” have downloaded over thirty-five million individual episodes.
He has been covered in Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher’s Weekly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, io9, Wired, The Huffington Post, Business Week and Fangoria.

Scott is the co-founder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his Galactic Football League YA series. He lives in San Diego, CA, with his wee little dog Reesie. They’re both diehard Detroit Lions fans.

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Phil Gigante

Phil Gigante

2010 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense: THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO, THE REMBRANDT AFFAIR

2009 Best Voice in MYSTERY & SUSPENSE: THE DEFECTOR, SAVAGE SEASON

Narrator Phil Gigante’s skill and versatility are easily apparent in two very different Earphones Award-winning mysteries: He’s utterly believable as Texas sleuths (SAVAGE SEASON) and international spies (THE DEFECTOR): “Gigante handles a smorgasbord of accents and intricate narrative with the same level of professionalism as the spies who are willing to kill and to die for their countries.” -2009

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Melanie Simmons
I’m Melanie and I live in Ohio. I have two horses and a dog. I’m an animal lover, avid book reader and audiobook listener. I like to live vicariously through fictional characters. I enjoy reading and listening to mostly fictional books in the paranormal genre, including Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Horror. My favorite paranormal creatures are shifters, doesn’t matter the flavor.