Wow, what a marathon!

It’s no mean feat to grip a listener for 25 hours and when I first started Convulsive, I wasn’t sure the author was going to be able to hold me. After all, how interesting can a viral infection narrative be after the first few people have died? Especially at a time like this when people are dying every day, it’s sort of the last thing you want to read about in your fictional escape world. Ah, how shall I escape the depression of the C-19 pandemic? I know, I’ll spend 25 hours listening to the D4 pandemic!

Well… was I wrong!! I don’t want to leave any spoilers but let’s just say, by the end of the first book, I had no idea THAT was going to happen and OMG was I hooked! From that point forward, I didn’t take my headphones off.

What’s really interesting about this series is that it was written before Covid and you see all the same precautions put into effect to try to combat the virus, which demonstrates a very well-researched novel. But far more than that, the author has an incredible imagination for where to take a viral infection and he pushes it to its absolute limits while maintaining the plausibility required for sci-fi. The story twists and turns with each book highlighting an unexpected aspect of the D4 pandemic, leading you from one edge-of-the-seat scene to another as Lucy battles for survival.

Any author who can keep my attention that long deserves respect! Well played!

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