Cadáver 3: Un thriller de apocalipsis zombi

Cadaver #3

by Nick Clausen, Alberto Odalvos (Narrator)

El frío se acerca. Y con él, algo peor que la muerte.

A medida que la infección se expande y la esperanza se desvanece, los supervivientes dispersos se aferran unos a otros—y a secretos que no pueden permanecer ocultos.

Ella y su prima Marit escapan de la pesadilla de su hogar, pero en los pasillos de una guardería abandonada, Ella siente que algo dentro de ella está cambiando. Aksel, viajando con Belinda y su hija pequeña, se adentra en el desierto helado, creyendo que el frío podría detener a los muertos—solo para descubrir que la naturaleza tiene sus propias leyes brutales. Y Kristoffer, refugiado en las montañas con Ragnar, empieza a sospechar que la verdadera fuente de la infección podría encontrarse en un pozo oscuro en Halgrim… y que lo que acecha allí podría contener tanto la causa como la cura.

Las reglas de la supervivencia están cambiando. La infección corre más hondo de lo que nadie temía. Y esta vez, puede que no sean los muertos a quienes debas temer.

Please This audiobook is in Spanish.

Genres: Zombies, Horror, Audiobook, Fiction, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic

Audible Audio

First published March 4, 2023

About the author

I write stories about the apocalypse so that I don't need to work a real job. I grew up reading Stephen King and still haven't fully recovered. I'm currently ending the world in my new series Under the Breaking Sky.

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Reviews

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great edition to series

This book is as thrilling as the others in this series. The ending hopefully isnt going to start making the rest of the series mundane. Survival and zombies, oh my.

[Cam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can’t wait for the 4th book to come out!!!

[Stitching Ghost · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still fast paced and not pulling punches but not quite as deadly as the second book.

This one was largely more along the lines of a regular but good zombie survival story, there were less “main“ characters that were offed in this one and we got to see a bit more of what they are individually made of.

[Scott Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting

[Lou Canning · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cadaver 3: A Zombie Apocalypse Thriller

Wow! Three out of three great reads!!!! I honestly thought this series would be another run of the mill same old apocalyptic zombie story.
But it’s not!!!! I’m still loving the characters, I’m still surprised at who dies or who doesn’t, I even shed a couple tears!!
I don’t often read one after the other of a series I like a break in between but I don’t need one with this! I can’t wait for the next, they always end of a cliff hanger!
Bring me the next instalment please. I want to get MY teeth into it!!!!

[Areeb Husain · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's getting better!!!

The lore and mystery is building up slowly, but I'm quite liking it. In terms of story, across the 3 books, not much as happened. It's pretty much like 1 week worth of events at best. And that can make it tough sometimes, but I like the characters enough, and intrigued by the mystery and build of the new twist that I'm quite interested in what happens next.

[Hannah May Book Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title: Cadaver Book 3
Author: Nick Clausen
Genre: Horror/Apocalyptic Horror
Pages: 163
Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb:

Two teenagers find a frozen corpse in the middle of the woods and decide to bring it back to town. They have no idea they just sparked the zombie apocalypse.

In the morgue below the hospital, the dead begin waking up and attacking the living. The infection spreads rapidly, turning the place into a slaughterhouse as those inside fight to survive against the undead.

As the situation escalates, authorities are forced to seal off the building in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. But it may already be too late ...

Review:
Thank you to Nick Clausen for allowing me to be part of his review team, it really is a pleasure.
So far this has been a fantastic, fast paced series, full of twists and turns, so it’s safe to say I was eager to get stuck in to this instalment.

What I loved about this book is how Nick began to bring characters together and intertwine their stories. He does do an amazing job at this. As for the characters themselves, I like that there is such a range of personalities, it really makes the story become believable.

As always you never know what to expect with Nick’s writing, so once more he often caught me off guard. There were some very thought provoking moments in this instalment too, I really connected with some of what was being said. I also found myself becoming quite frustrated too!

Not at Nick’s work but at the bloody characters and some of their decisions, but this shows I really was invested.

I felt like book 3 was more of an emotional instalment, another rollercoaster that definitely tapped into my feelings. We didn’t have as much gruesome parts as the first two books and I felt like this took the story to a deeper level. So for this reason, I must say it is my favourite instalment so far.
However, the ending!

Well, I didn’t see that one coming a mile off! It was a nice surprise though I must say, and now I’m interested to see what direction the story will turn in next. Bring on book 4 as things are about to get interesting!

[Tania velez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Omg best zombie book I've read for a while

This books story is very different and unique without being overly,well ....stupid. The origin is always something us readers get a bit bored about since it's always the same or a very weird not too sense making different. This set takes the cake!!@ i can picture it as a show or movie. Nick man, please don't make me wait a year! I literally cried when I saw the release date of book 4!! I'll be waiting and checking everyday for an update

Hey nick man huge fan here! It would be awesome sauce if you could give us a chapter or two to hold us off...I mean that ending man! Epic but super left me hanging. Lol aw man great story great characters like so believable and real. Thanks man I really love this series!

[Anya Reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

sweet

Another one to fill my need my greed for more draug /cadaver. This has fully lived up to and surpassed any expectations I had. Now, I only desire more. Much like the draug forever desires more blood, I will desire more books. Well done.

[Linda Mae · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one really picked the pace back up!

[Baiba Loves Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow this series is really good, perfect suspense and amazing twists. I am really enjoying it! Much better then „the walking dead“.

[Christy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm always on the hunt for a good zombie book! I've found a few but, Nick Clausen is hands down my favorite. His books never disappoint and this series is amazing. He got me hooked with Dead Meat. Now I'm just not so patiently waiting for Cadaver 4. This series has likeable characters, a great plot, literally cannot wait to see what happens.

[Kristi Kienast Hernandez · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Cadaver series is just so readable! I love the short chapters and the development of the story. Addictive and so easy to immerse yourself in the story. This installment wasn’t as engaging or wild as the first two, but still a quick and enjoyable read.

[La Donna Thomspon-Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this Series!!!

Thanks for the thrills. I love the characters. I love the action. Can't wait to read the next installment!!!! Keep em coming!

[Joan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Best of the series but that’s not saying much. Any extra redeeming qualities this book holds gets dragged down by something else

Everyone is a little more bearable and interesting. Not by a whole lot but it’s there. Although Nick writes depression like someone whos never been sad before. Haven’t you experienced any of this before?? He writes emotions like an ai programmed by some basement dweller.

The first black person(Hagos) in the whole series appears in this one. I get it, it’s Norway, that place is superrrr white. But Nick just writes Hagos racist. One of the first thing we learn about him is he’s “ naturally a servant” and “just wired to be one” Seriously? No one saw this and said” Hey Nick, love yah, but uh maybe don’t make ur only black character be born to be a servant. Like that’s the only thing he can do, it’s in his blood. K?” Also all that weird Africa hate(which Nick refuses to say outright that’s where Hagos is from, even though he speaks Bantu) Africa is more then some dirty patch of war-torn land. You wouldn’t know by the way Nick writes it.

It’s awful too because Hagos has an amazing talk with another character which I really enjoyed. Like I agreed and related to what he said. Can you believe that? Nick writes an enjoyable character? And enjoyable conversation??

He contradicts himself extra this book. The stiff and inhuman conversations are even more noticeably. Nick, If you keep this up your characters wouldn’t pass a Turing test. Not to mention he gets character traits mixed up. Why would Kristopher know what or where a Solar plexus is? Nick! He’s not the morticians apprentice!!

I ended up skimming through a portion of the book. I didn’t miss anything important. I willingly washed my dishes instead of reading this book, if that tells you anything

[❤ArtfullySinful❤ · Rating 3 out of 5]

It doesn’t matter what they are. Now you know how to stop them.

The apocalypse is in full swing and is spreading farther away from patient zero in Torik, as many new survivors are being added into the mix of death. For Askel, he's with Belinda and her daughter, as well as Ella's mother and together they're trying to make their way out of where they are trapped. While taking shelter in a retirement home with her cousin Marit, Ella discovers herself burning with fever and seeing the wound on her wrist for the first time. With a sinking gut feeling, she knows she's infected and her time left has begun counting down. Picking herself in the bathroom, she calls her mother with the news and allows herself to sink into unconsciousness. Meanwhile, Marit and Hagos; an orderly working there, are running through the terrace doors to avoid the living dead, leaving Edith and another man to become eaten. As Ella lays unconscious, Marit is reeling from losing both her parents and her cousins from an illness that seemed so far away.

First Torik. The hospital is all but lost. No one can still be alive up there. Judging from the media coverage, it even seems like they’re not that concerned about keeping up the perimeter around the building. Because now the city is falling, too.

Simultaneously, it reached Trondheim, where Anne is. One of the quarantined people in Torik unwittingly brought an infected person along with them in the back of the ambulance that Anne herself apprehended. Another stupid act of—

Ragnar, Hans and Kris and making themselves comfortable in Ragnar's cave, with Hans still suffering from the death of his fiance Ingrid. Dying from anaphylactic shock as a diabetic, they just finished sending her body into the river when they were ambushed by AWOL soldiers from the compound tasked with storing almost 2000 infected. With Hans being shot and killed, it leaves Kris left with a soldier who's currently using him as a a human shield against Ragnar. Communicating in German, they advised the plan to shoot the soldier in the knee with the nail gun to get Kris out of the hold where a knife is currently being held to his throat. With little left to lose, he still feels suspicion around his partner but needs to trust him now if he wants to live through the night.

He has no one left. No one to tell him it’ll all be all right. Only the darkness deep inside of him. The same darkness that took his grandpa and his mother and his brother and soon will rise up to swallow him. Aksel can feel it. It’s rearing its ugly head. It’s always been there, but now it’s waking up. He’s been running from it, keeping it away, but he’s got nowhere left to run. And it will overtake him. At some point, he’ll become too weak and desperate to fight it off. It’ll convince him that the less painful option is to end things on his own terms.

Learning her daughter in infected and out of hope in this world, her mother is determined more than ever to help protect Askel and Belinda as they each manage to land in the car. With Belinda's daughter hiding under the car from the undead, the choices are getting skimmer by the minute as they find themselves safe but very, very vulnerable. Watching the slaughtering going on around them, the reality of police involvement to save them is slipping quickly though the cracks. Knowing their survival now lays strictly on their shoulders, the defeat they feel is quite crushing. I know to everyone, Ella is waking up and without the crushing fever. Believing she's an undead, she's shocked to still have thoughts and her normal complexion. More shocking, the zombies don't even seem to notice her as she opens the door to test the theory. Could it be possible she's the only one with this immunity?

“Heaven is not a place, and death is not an event.”

“Heaven is what we are. And death … well, it’s just an illusion that comes to an end. The body, that is.”

“It means you are complete. You can never be anything else.”

[David Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

The action continues as the infection expands.

It’s hard to believe it has been almost eight months since I listened to the first two books in the Cadaver series, and that gave me pause prior to listening to the Cadaver 3. However, as soon as I started listening to Spencer Dillehay’s narration the previous books began to flood my memories and it was like I had listened to them yesterday. This episode in the Cadaver series is not just action-packed, we get introduced to some new characters and bid adieu to a few who have been on the journey since the beginning. After listening to this book, my appetite has been whetted to listen to as many of the remaining books in this series as I can in short order. Based on my listening to the Cadaver and Under the Breaking Sky series I believe spencer Dillehay is my favorite post-apocalyptic narrator. Spencer can breathe life into even the vilest character and turn an excellent story into a blockbuster.

[Naei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quedé loca.

Tuvo muchas sorpresas la historia. Sigo quedando loca con las malas decisiones de la gente y lo malo que puede ser el ser humano en esas situaciones.

Estoy preocupada por Rosa, espero que no la arañarán. Ahora hablemos de Ella, queee, primero quedé súper desilusionada con la decisión de sacarla de la historia porque estamos claros que la chama tiene madera de superviviente y no estuve de acuerdo a como iba la historia con respecto a ella.

Ahora ese último capítulo? quedé más loca aún, cómo así? cómo por qué? No lo entiendo, no veo nada super increíble en su trayecto, lo único que se me ocurre son sus últimas acciones lo de hablar de la muerte, que era, y todo eso y rezar, luego hablar de manera tan sincera con la madre y ya. Será esa la clave?

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audiobook: Book 3 was as gripping as the first two books in the "A Zombie Apocalypse" series. One of the best things, but also one of the worst things, about these stories was that you just never knew which characters were going to survive and which weren't. This was a tale that kept me on the edge-of-my seat as I vicariously struggled along with the characters through the hardships that they faced. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. Spencer Dillehay's narration was brilliant, and his performance reflected the story's desperate ambiance. I was given a free copy of the audiobook, and I have voluntarily posted this review.

[Robin Perryman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The virus is out of control now. Ella is bitten while trying to meet up with her mom. Aksel seems like the only character with survival skills and everyone else is making stupid mistakes. I'm suspicious about Ragnar because he acts like he's guilty of something. I think he's a rapist/murderer but not sure yet. I'm pretty sure I'm messing up the names but there's a lot of characters with uncommon names . The story is okay so far but its kind of slow going. I'm waiting on part 4 to come out.

[Nancy Portz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Books 2 & 3 are still so exciting,

Reading them is like teetering over the edge of a dangerous cliff. You find yourself holding your breath, wanting to know what happens next, but also dreading the possibility of disaster for one of the people you have come to care about. The tension never ends except for the surprises that are twisted in unpredictably throughout. Gotta run and read the final 4th book of this series. Hoping the world survives this "Torik disease". Thought I was bored with zombie novels by now, and then I started this exciting series.

[Bethann · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending to this was pretty predictable and it made me sad but the other events within the book still kept it at a four star. I think this is a really great series if you're looking for a good old fashioned zombie situation. It really mixes World War z, The Walking Dead, and some other classics all into one. Definitely give this a try. I think that there will be more twists and ways that this will stand apart from other zombie stories considering the hints of an origin element. Very good even with the predictability in this story.

[Peter Schmidt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another solid installment and with entertaining characters (with their good and not so good qualities). The crisis starts to snowball, and the various storylines keep a nice pace without becoming chaotic or gratuitous. There are few plotline balls being juggled with this one - and it seems like more to come as things can only intensify from this point.

It is also still refreshing to read an undead book written from a non-USA/UK centric perspective with all the subtle differences that brings.

[William Newbury · Rating 5 out of 5]

Are there no tools anywhere?!?

I think the humans are having too tough of a time dealing with all this but it I sometimes wonder lol. You’d think a good amount of people would get normal tools and bats and make weapons to deal with zombies. But the possibility of being charger for murder is a real one so you can’t just go all crazy. And the government just makes things worse. Interesting series so far.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Fantastic, Engrossing Addition to Series!

Loved it. Loved the realism in the characters thoughts, movements, reactions, feelings, etc. This is how normal, everyday folk would behave during the first days of such an outbreak. I’m really enjoying this series, and to all those who enjoy medical or apocalyptic fiction, this one is for all y’all!

On to the next entry! Book 4, prepare to be absorbed!

Enjoy!

[Dwight Davis · Rating 1 out of 5]

watch paint dry instead

Wanted to like the series, but gave up on this one halfway through as I just couldn’t take it anymore. Characters are shallow and all over the place. Read the phrase “the Black guy” at least a dozen times in a few pages… at least give him a name. The story had potential but quickly exhausted itself.

[Valerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoying the series! I was a bit put off when I thought the author was going to kill off a favorite character -- nooooo! But, without giving away too much, the character's fate turned out to be better than expected.

If you're a fan of zombies, I highly recommend this series for the action and interesting characters.

[Read & Escape with Nina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this fast paced read! I gave books 1 and 2 five stars and book 3 four stars simply because I felt that the “black guy” reference was a bit overused. I was so happy when he finally told Ella his name was Hagos so I didn’t have to keep reading “The Black Guy”. Other than that still an awesome read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Moving on to book 4 now :)

[Zachary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alright, now we're cooking! The narrative pace has picked up and, rather than just end on a cliffhanger, this volume winds down into a proper reveal that's sure to shape the series going forward.

One of the new characters seems a little problematic, but I'm willing to give Clausen the benefit of the doubt and wait to see whether or not he actually manages to flesh the new guy out.

[Veronik Durocher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

Urghhh... I can't believe I'll have to wait a full year for the next book! I was sure I checked that there were a whole four books published before reading the first... And with the punch of the ending!? That is borderline cruel... 🙄