Author's VOID is the second of four installments that collectively make up The Immune Complete Four-Book Edition. If you previously downloaded the Four-Book Edition, you do not need to download this installment.
CIVILIZATION IS BUT A MEMORY
And this is the dismal world left behind.
Adam Fisher joins forces with Sarah Wells, a soldier harboring a terrible secret, and Freddie Briggs, an aging football star grieving the loss of his family. As they trek across a ruined American landscape, the challenges mount around them, including the terrifying prospect that the Medusa virus may not yet be done with the survivors.
Wow! Really loving this series, and best of all there are several books in the Series to read.
I love Doctor Adam. I love the two groups coming together and the damaged woman they find and the boy Max. They are becoming a family, reminding me a lot of The Walking Dead. And like that story and every other apocalypse I have read about, it is people without laws or conscience who are the biggest danger. And those who engineered the Medusa virus are people who don't even know they belong to this lawless conscienceless group.
The story of pregnant Caroline and the birth of her baby boy was just heart wrenching.
I want to add that I think it was the right thing for Freddie to kill the guy who was carrying off Caroline, a pregnant woman, to either use for raping or to make her into a baby factory. Those men would do that to other women, no matter what they said. it was in my opinion the only thing to do.
If you haven't read this series yet I highly recommend it.
The second book in The Immune Omnibus, Void, is a fabulous sequel to the first book, Unraveling. Starting where it left off, Void follows the adventures of the survivors from the first book, namely the obstetrician, Adam, former footballer, Freddie, and soldier Sarah among others as they unite and trek across the USA, in search of Adam’s daughter, Rachel as well as answering the call of the CDC who, before the world went to hell in a hand basket, asked for anyone immune from what’s now known as the Medusa virus to come forward.
As they travel, they meet others who have also lost everything. Joining together, the group learn not only how to survive and forage (including empty houses and abandoned businesses and vehicles) but about each other. Worst of all, they learn just how fragile the veneer of civilization is; how when there is no-one to enforce laws and common decency, there are those who will take advantage of the situation, regardless of the consequences.
While the book is about a world in chaos, it’s also very much about the humanity or lack thereof of those now populating the planet and how survival isn’t just about nourishing the body, but also the heart and mind.
Some good twists in the book and believable character development as well as fine writing made this reader buy the next book as soon as the last page of this one was finished.
The tension amps up ever more in Volume 2 of The Immune. As Adam continues his quest to find his daughter, he acquires travel companions who he hopes will help provide safety in numbers. We wonder, though, what complications could ensue, knowing these others have secrets, baggage, and agendas of their own. Kazzie's in-depth characters mesh with a vivid, haunting background that brings home for the reader what our world might really be like should we fall helpless to an unstoppable epidemic. Looking forward to the story's next installment.
This series is so addicting! Yes I read book two in one sitting and am starting three asap. The character development is wonderful, I feel like I'm one of the group as I take this journey.. I love that this apocalyptic story isn't predictable..but takes you on a ride with twists and turns. Mr kazzie truly has a gift!
The characters are still unlikeable and I'm having a hard time rooting for them. Too much mulling in their heads, wallowing in their grief and some big questions regarding pl0t holes are starting to pop up.
Why aren't there more survivors? There is an estimation of 2% survivors but that is still a lot of people out there, but our MC's rarely stumble onto them and when they do, the people are pure evil.
Why can't our MC's find a road atlas so they can use it to circumnavigate around the big city highway blockages? Just sounds ridiculous that they are constantly having to abandon their supplies because they can't find a way around cars. I mean, even a wagon would have helped them!
The cliche's & over the top coincidences are starting to pop up as well.
(Rating 2.5) —- This is a run-of-the-mill end of the world due to a virus series. It follows a group of characters and they all go through the usual tropes of this genre - loosing their family, finding family, creating new families, sacrifice, communities, evil groups, end of world problems like food, water, shelter, medical care.
It wasn’t bad, and if you like this genre and maybe haven’t read many of these then you will enjoy it as it explores all these theme quite well, it’s just for me, because I’ve read quite a few of these types of series, it didn’t provide a new perspective.
Even better than the first book, though a bit darker too. I enjoyed the closer proximity to the characters with this one and there were some touching and very sad moments. It was also intriguing to return to Miles Chadwick and to begin to understand what their motives were for engineering an apocalypse. Very much looking forward to reading more in this series.
Read this one quite quickly after the first. It's one of those books where you want to know what happens. It also does not shy away from despair, loss and grief. It's definitely not your average happy ending humanity will prevail kind of book, much more realistic. Looking forwards to book 3.
Just finished the whole series... enjoyed reading these books after full on days at work. Good way to relax and unwind knowing that we don’t have it so bad. CoVid-19 sucks but it could be worse. Glass half full. Now onto find the next End of The World Series to read.
Decent but could use an editor. A lot of inner monolog and reflection could be edited out. Sometimes conversations pause for a page or two for inner monolog. The story is interesting, just needs some editing.
Poor description and knowledge of firearms was evident. My advice, don’t write about gunfights in stories if you don’t understand them. Or use a good editor who does.
Void is a repetition of book one in the series with a little more character development and nothing added to the storyline. I will read book 3 hoping that it is not more of the same.
Throughout the horror of a vital epidemic, the survivors struggle with their grief & moving forward into an unknown future. The author drags the readers on this premeditated end of most human life with touching descriptions of the characters' dealing with this unimaginable tragedy. Can't wait to read the next novel!
This was my least favorite book in this series. This book was like the "housekeeping" section of a book. The events in this book were necessary to wrap up the story line but at the time seemed to be veering off into side plots that weren't as good as the main story. Still a good book.
If so few people are left I wonder who or how will they clean up. So many dead. The world would smell really bad real quick. Maybe the next book will reveal the answer