The Takeover

by Mur Lafferty

Genres: Horror, Audiobook, Humor, Zombies, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Comedy

Podiobook

About the author

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Mur Lafferty is the author of Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Hugo and Nebula nominated novel Six Wakes, The Shambling Guides series, and several self pubbed novels and novellas, including the award winning Afterlife series. She is the host of the Hugo-winning podcast Ditch Diggers, and the long-running I Should Be Writing. She is the recipient of the John Campbell Award for best new writer, the Manly Wade Wellman Award, the Best Fancast Hugo Award, and joined the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015, its inaugural year.

Reviews

[A M H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cool audio drama. The characters had individual personalities and a unique story and a interesting concept. Shows zombies in a very different way then the norm and even more so with free openness and working side by side with humans as equal coworkers in the workplace.

[Arielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny, highly entertaining audio drama. It was wonderful to listen to, especially while at work, to keep me in high spirits. the writing wasn't fantastic, and the story was a little lacking. But I truly enjoyed it.

[Suzi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The funniest thing I have come across in a very long time.

[Skeptigirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is odd and if you like odd, like I do, that is a good thing. It is the most creative look at a zombie story I have read so far, but that may change as I read more zombie books. The only problem really was that it was short and a few things I felt weren't prefaced enough. I would have liked to know more about the world that this story inhabited but that is because I was curious, not because it was not explored enough for the purposes of the story. If I would use two words to describe this book, they would be: cute and charming. Still as much as I enjoyed listening to this story and was charmed by it I felt like it could have been better and if the characters weren't being played by different voice actors I may have had trouble distinguishing between them.

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining, but definitely not top notch. I think my favorite repeating line was "bigot" done in the audio version with JC Hutchins. That one line saved the story line for me. The intro and outro songs were classic also. Definitely a fun listen.

[Evelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This audiodrama made me laugh and gave me something to take my mind off the extrememly boring task of cleaning all the venetian blinds in my new house. I'm a sucker for anything with zombies in it, especially if it's funny.

All of the cast did a great job!

[Stefanie]

Not worth it

[Lise · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Mur Lafferty's style, but zombie humor really doesn't work for me. Wrong kind of dark, I think.

[Simon C · Rating 3 out of 5]

An 'audio drama' rather than a book. Entirely silly but short. Fun, with some good voice work. And the music is very catchy.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good multi-voiced performance and probably the best way to enjoy this tale. I recommend the author and her works.

[Nicole Rand · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's like the zombie apocalypse meets Office Space :)

[nooker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome audio drama about a firm being bought out by a Zombie firm. Neat voices and a solid understanding of the business culture make it a fun read.

[Bram Slaats]

It wasn't a bad audio book. While I wouldn't listen to it again I thought it was good for a laugh.

I give this 3 out of 5 stars