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A review by pingthevile
Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht
2.0
I listened to this book narrated by Oliver Wyman, one of my absolute favorite Audible narrators. Partway through the book, I felt that something was off... it wasn't clicking. Then I realized that it was because a fantastic narrator was narrating a sub-par book.
The story was passable for the most part. There was nothing particularly stand-outish about the book. What was "off" was the dialogue. It was terribly written, to the point where I actually backed the audio up a few times just to make sure I heard what I thought I heard.
Add the poor dialogue to some blatantly stupid things and some incorrect things (Ben Franklin was not the inventor to say that he found 1,000 ways not to go about something, for instance) and I put this book very firmly in the "Don't bother" category.
The story was passable for the most part. There was nothing particularly stand-outish about the book. What was "off" was the dialogue. It was terribly written, to the point where I actually backed the audio up a few times just to make sure I heard what I thought I heard.
Add the poor dialogue to some blatantly stupid things and some incorrect things (Ben Franklin was not the inventor to say that he found 1,000 ways not to go about something, for instance) and I put this book very firmly in the "Don't bother" category.