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The Failed
A laboratory in New Jersey holds what has the potential to be the biggest breakthrough in medicine and science, ever. An injection named D8-C10, which has the capabilities to combat any disease and sickness through the revival of dead cells within a body.
After tests are conducted on animals, it’s time to test it out on humans. As the humans begin to die, one by one, the lab has no choice but to send the project to a different facility.
With the bodies packed into a train, a truck, and an airplane, they are off for more experiments, except there’s a problem… the D8-C10 begins to work now, after the people are dead. And the D8-C10 does exactly what it’s supposed to do, revive dead cells.
Now the bodies begin to come back to life…
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We’re all dead. Life feels like a waste of time right now. Everything will end up forgotten. These will be forgotten words. On forgotten paper. Because I’m sure the new people coming won’t be interested in reading. And if this does go away they’ll all look back at the time passed and call it The Failed. And I’m part of it. You are too. We all are… we are all The Failed. – Jack Stevey
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Jim Bronyaur is an award winning horror author.
www.JimBronyaur.com
Twitter @JimBronyaur
After tests are conducted on animals, it’s time to test it out on humans. As the humans begin to die, one by one, the lab has no choice but to send the project to a different facility.
With the bodies packed into a train, a truck, and an airplane, they are off for more experiments, except there’s a problem… the D8-C10 begins to work now, after the people are dead. And the D8-C10 does exactly what it’s supposed to do, revive dead cells.
Now the bodies begin to come back to life…
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We’re all dead. Life feels like a waste of time right now. Everything will end up forgotten. These will be forgotten words. On forgotten paper. Because I’m sure the new people coming won’t be interested in reading. And if this does go away they’ll all look back at the time passed and call it The Failed. And I’m part of it. You are too. We all are… we are all The Failed. – Jack Stevey
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Jim Bronyaur is an award winning horror author.
www.JimBronyaur.com
Twitter @JimBronyaur
209 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 9, 2011
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March 15, 2012
I really liked the way The Failed was written. It showed everyone’s various roles in the outbreak from various points of view, all at different times and places. Readers are taken from the lab to the air, road and railways as the test subjects make their escapes. Lab events are recounted through the journal entries of a scientist who is very skeptical about the cure all serum that his employer is developing.
Scientist Jack Stevey saw things in the lab that made him uncomfortable and very leery about the doctor and his miraculous cure all serum. He began taking notes, lots of notes. Eventually note taking led to sample taking and his own personal testing ending with shocking discoveries. Stevey saw this train wreck approaching (yes pun intended) and he had full intentions of trying to assist in the aftermath.
Lance, Dale, and Jackie are transport pawns for 4 Industries. They accept a job to haul cargo from 4 Industries in Pennsylvania to The Facility in Nevada. The jobs always pay well. The pay is even better when no questions are asked. The men have never had any problems with their cargo on previous jobs. The jobs are always easy, until this job. There is a small problem with the cargo, it’s undead and wants out.
The Pringle family sees, hears, and feels the train crash on the track behind their home. Abby is scared of the monsters she sees everywhere when lights are out and it’s her bed time. Paul and Janet are at their wits end with their daughter and her insistent claims about monsters. The night of the train crash changes that. There truly are monsters and they are headed straight for the Pringle family home.
Scientific experiments gone wrong, conspiratorial cover-up’s, and the zombie degrees of separation. The pace of the book keeps the pages moving. I was constantly curious what would happen to each character next. I liked how they all were brought together due to one crazy doctor’s persistence to get his cure all serum out to the masses by any means necessary.
Scientist Jack Stevey saw things in the lab that made him uncomfortable and very leery about the doctor and his miraculous cure all serum. He began taking notes, lots of notes. Eventually note taking led to sample taking and his own personal testing ending with shocking discoveries. Stevey saw this train wreck approaching (yes pun intended) and he had full intentions of trying to assist in the aftermath.
Lance, Dale, and Jackie are transport pawns for 4 Industries. They accept a job to haul cargo from 4 Industries in Pennsylvania to The Facility in Nevada. The jobs always pay well. The pay is even better when no questions are asked. The men have never had any problems with their cargo on previous jobs. The jobs are always easy, until this job. There is a small problem with the cargo, it’s undead and wants out.
The Pringle family sees, hears, and feels the train crash on the track behind their home. Abby is scared of the monsters she sees everywhere when lights are out and it’s her bed time. Paul and Janet are at their wits end with their daughter and her insistent claims about monsters. The night of the train crash changes that. There truly are monsters and they are headed straight for the Pringle family home.
Scientific experiments gone wrong, conspiratorial cover-up’s, and the zombie degrees of separation. The pace of the book keeps the pages moving. I was constantly curious what would happen to each character next. I liked how they all were brought together due to one crazy doctor’s persistence to get his cure all serum out to the masses by any means necessary.
May 27, 2012
Interested in a fast paced read about a group of characters making their way from one dangerous situation to the next? Survivors who barely escaping becoming a feast for the undead only to eventually join forces, what's left of them, against the horde for once last epic battle? Well look no further than Jim Bronyaur's, The Failed
The Failed has everything one needs in a zombie book. Within its pages you will find, wonderfully interesting characters, scientific discovery gone wrong, hordes of undead chasing, catching and feasting on the remains of the living. The action is thrilling and bloody disgusting. Highly descriptive scenes and setting provide a truly terrifying and bleak atmosphere for those attempting to survive. Through the eyes of the various characters we become a part of the action and, at times, even feel the impact as those around them fall. For this reader, characterization is where Bronyaur shines. His creations practically jump off the page allowing the reader to feel every emotion as it happens on the page.
Doubleshot Reviews most definitely suggests The Failed be added to your reading list. You will not regret picking this one up!
The Failed has everything one needs in a zombie book. Within its pages you will find, wonderfully interesting characters, scientific discovery gone wrong, hordes of undead chasing, catching and feasting on the remains of the living. The action is thrilling and bloody disgusting. Highly descriptive scenes and setting provide a truly terrifying and bleak atmosphere for those attempting to survive. Through the eyes of the various characters we become a part of the action and, at times, even feel the impact as those around them fall. For this reader, characterization is where Bronyaur shines. His creations practically jump off the page allowing the reader to feel every emotion as it happens on the page.
Doubleshot Reviews most definitely suggests The Failed be added to your reading list. You will not regret picking this one up!
March 24, 2012
Looking forward to the sequel.
July 11, 2012
Scientific narrative of a zombie outbreak from the research faciliticy that created it.
Read my full review at The Zed Word Blog:
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