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Chuck Wendig (Author), Dominic Hoffman (Narrator), Xe Sands (Narrator),

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A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity.

Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And, like Shana, there are other 'shepherds' who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.

For on their journey, they will discover an America convulsed with terror and violence, where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it. As the rest of society collapses all around them and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them, the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unravelling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.

Listening Length

32 hours and 21 minutes
Author

Chuck Wendig
Narrator

Dominic Hoffman, see all
Audible release date

19 March 2020
Language

English
Publisher

Penguin Audio
ASIN

B085GHFBR9
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	32 hours and 21 minutes
Author	Chuck Wendig
Narrator	Dominic Hoffman, Xe Sands
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	19 March 2020
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B085GHFBR9
Best Sellers Rank	20,222 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 236 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 890 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books)

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Emily Daniel

Fantastic Book

Reviewed in Australia on 11 August 2019

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Kept me hooked from start to finish

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M. King

Excruciating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2019

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This book is way, way, too long. It’s bloated by the aggressive politicking of the author, so we are preached at incessantly and to the detriment of the story. There are also big chunks of the story that add nothing, like the virtual reality world or the Rock Star story.

One of the main characters Shana is an annoying teen with attitude who , because of plot, is somehow important to things.

The copy and paste of the Crichtonesque science he bases his story on is painfully obvious. Some things defy all logic as well such as the ceaseless energy of the sleep walking flock.

Some characters are ridiculous in their actions and motivations, the dad, the pastor and the Big Bad militia-criminal- racist-rapist.

After many twists and turns we finally get the truth of what’s going on....you’ll have guessed it around page 100. One big “wait..what?” aspect of this truth is the question as to what the hell was the point of having the “sleep-walkers” walk across America...it made no sense at all.

All in all this is a mix of poor story, poor pacing and self righteous preaching...not for me.

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There are people who haven't bought this book down-voting it. These people are babies.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2019

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I don't really do reviews but what the hell, this is the third night in a row I've had nightmares about it so here goes.

Wanderers is what happened if the strategy for winning Plague Inc. got into the wrong hands - yes, that strategy that even gets Madagascar. Except it also has the ability to plunge its fist into your chest and yank out your still beating heart, because Chuck is as vicious with his cast as George R.R. Martin, except he's only got one book to do it in. This book has given me nightmares, got under my skin, infected my brain for days (ha ha ha), and I'm mad at Chuck (in the best way) for what happens to a few of the shepherds.

Now, why would a bunch of people downvote this book? Well, the main one is this; Chuck isn't quiet about social issues, and this book is a shocking reflection of that. Maybe you see similarities in Creel and Hunt to people in real life - I sure did. One of the villains of the book - there are a couple and I'd say this is a bit of a twist so I won't name them - is eerily similar to people I've known in real life, right down to the rhetoric they use about what they feel needs to be done to save their country from the Walkers. It's an extremely contemporary book - one that, I hope, one day I can being of its time.

It's a terrifying book. But it's also very, very good. And if you want to know how good, I have a disability that makes reading very hard, a sort of dyslexia cousin. I managed to consume the whole thing in maybe three days.

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Simon Booth

Very American

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2019

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Wanderers is a very American tale, a story ostensibly about a group of strangers who walk out of their lives and begin a journey across the country for reasons that are opaque to those around them, but really about the USA today. It is about the political polarisation and the right vs left culture wars. It's about where the country is heading culturally and politically.

There's plenty to like about the tale, but it is heavy handed. The political commentary often usurps the narrative, characters and events too often exist to make a statement at the cost of believability and consistency. The book is at its best when it focusses on the fiction and lets the politics develop in the background, at its worst when it is the other way around.

I doubt many readers will find much to challenge their world view - those on the political left will find plenty of affirmation, those on the political right who inadvertently end up reading it will probably toss it in the bin within 100 pages. Those in the centre will probably still be in the centre when the last chapter closes. Those of us outside the USA will probably shake our heads and shrug our shoulders and wonder why the country seems so hell-bent on self-destruction, as we do most days anyway.

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David

Wandering to nowhere

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2020

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Anyone hoping for a 21st Century version of The Stand will be disappointed. The initial premise is good and the reader feels that they are walking with the 'flock' but distracting sub-plots, main characters that I don't care about and the arrival of caricature peripheral characters (ageing rock god! evil survivalist!) make this a really flabby story.
The final confrontation between 'good and evil' is predictable and short and the ending has to leave things open.
Rarely do I leave a book unfinished but I came close here. Perhaps shorn of its incredible weight of 800 pages there might be a good story here.

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All Hat and No Cattle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2020

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Not the sort of thing I usually read. The Apocalypse, end of days, zombies, and all that. I get it, it’s a story, but doesn’t it have to make sense? There are plot holes big enough to drive a Humvee through. With a double-width trailer attached. Reminded me of the TV show Lost, where the writers seemed lost in the intricacies of their own creation. The AI/VR elements are fun – until they go over the top. The characters were engaging, although there were maybe a few too many of them for my withered old brain to keep track of. The writing, of course, is flawless. Goes without saying for this pen-monkey, but the story just doesn’t hang together. It’s like a 1,000-piece jigsaw with 100 pieces missing and 50 stray pieces that have fallen out of a different box. Reading about such a cataclysmic near future was not the most comfortable experience; every now and then I felt the disturbing touch of real life seeping in. The CoVid-19 coronavirus outbreak, for example, contains enough real-world parallels to send shivers up your spine. I suppose that’s only to be expected with this kind of story. The eerily realistic vista of an anarchic North America, replete with white supremacists armed with pump-action shot guns, assault rifles etc., was enough horror to disturb this reader’s sleep even without the apocalyptic plague. They had a tank, too, which remained on the shelf, undeployed in a distinctly unChekovian fashion.

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