The First Bird
Series by Greig Beck A 3-Book Audiobook series Review! 
It's ridiculous and full of scientific jargon, but it's one of the best monster apocalyptic series that I've listened to in a very long time! When I first found
Greig Beck
, I thought he was good at writing military monster books, but The First Bird: Episodes 1-3 or Omnibus, is one for the records. Matt Kearns, an explorer, linguist and archaeologist from the Antarctic exploration with Alex Hunter in Beneath the Dark Ice (reviewed 07/17/2018) has an adventure of his own!
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The First Bird: Episode 1 tells how a strange, flesh-eating disease has reached American soil. The scientific world is making a major discovery, while the CDC is battling what could easily become an epidemic- pandemic even!
The government sends out a special, secret crew to the jungle to find if there's a possible cure to what's eating people alive without their knowing it. When they cross deeper into the South American jungle, they discover they're lower than they'd imagined on the food chain. Soon the crew realize they're in danger of both the flora and the fauna.
The First Bird is five hours of scientific intrigue and ecological terror! If found myself impressed by the adventure but also by the description of it all. I easily saw what Beck wanted me to see and I became one of the crew. Thankfully not in real life! Episode 2 of The First Bird series is all about the jungle. It picks up exactly where episode one left off and it lets loose all the stops! There be monsters here- but not monsters like you think. This book makes you cringe, yelp and one time while I was washing dishes, I flung a spoon across the kitchen! It was freaking creepy and sad and an unbelievable good listen! I would have finished it in one day, but I have kids
and sadly, a life to contend with!
So the story is written in a way that I found myself caught up in the tale. I couldn't stop until I was done! I listened while driving, cooking, washing dishes and laundry, while taking a bath and even before bed. I wanted to know what was going to happen next. The story is strong and of course, unreal. But what if, man! What if...
The final installment of The First Bird was different from the first two but still made for one heck of a story! What's left of the venturing crew return to the United States from Brazil, worse for wear, but all is not well. The country is on a national quarantine!
Citizens are grouped into three different tribes: the Healthies (the name says it all), the Invisibles (you don't see them/stay indoors), the Skinners (Infected) and the Bloomers... You will have to read to know what they are! Just know that it's not cool, whatsoever! Neighbor is against neighbor and there's no such thing as a Good Samaritan. You just stay away.
! The First Bird series
Greig Beck
Bolinda Publishing Pty. Ltd.
It's ridiculous and full of scientific jargon, but it's one of the best monster apocalyptic series that I've listened to in a very long time! When I first found
Greig Beck
, I thought he was good at writing military monster books, but The First Bird: Episodes 1-3 or Omnibus, is one for the records. Matt Kearns, an explorer, linguist and archaeologist from the Antarctic exploration with Alex Hunter in Beneath the Dark Ice (reviewed 07/17/2018) has an adventure of his own!I split the episodes (books) according to listening order, via Audible. Click on a book tab to read the review. #element-557aa5ff-6012-4574-9b3c-52c0ba8ecefe .waddons-blog-image.hideImage { display: none;}
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The First Bird: Episode 1 tells how a strange, flesh-eating disease has reached American soil. The scientific world is making a major discovery, while the CDC is battling what could easily become an epidemic- pandemic even!The government sends out a special, secret crew to the jungle to find if there's a possible cure to what's eating people alive without their knowing it. When they cross deeper into the South American jungle, they discover they're lower than they'd imagined on the food chain. Soon the crew realize they're in danger of both the flora and the fauna.
The First Bird is five hours of scientific intrigue and ecological terror! If found myself impressed by the adventure but also by the description of it all. I easily saw what Beck wanted me to see and I became one of the crew. Thankfully not in real life! Episode 2 of The First Bird series is all about the jungle. It picks up exactly where episode one left off and it lets loose all the stops! There be monsters here- but not monsters like you think. This book makes you cringe, yelp and one time while I was washing dishes, I flung a spoon across the kitchen! It was freaking creepy and sad and an unbelievable good listen! I would have finished it in one day, but I have kids
and sadly, a life to contend with! So the story is written in a way that I found myself caught up in the tale. I couldn't stop until I was done! I listened while driving, cooking, washing dishes and laundry, while taking a bath and even before bed. I wanted to know what was going to happen next. The story is strong and of course, unreal. But what if, man! What if...
The final installment of The First Bird was different from the first two but still made for one heck of a story! What's left of the venturing crew return to the United States from Brazil, worse for wear, but all is not well. The country is on a national quarantine!Citizens are grouped into three different tribes: the Healthies (the name says it all), the Invisibles (you don't see them/stay indoors), the Skinners (Infected) and the Bloomers... You will have to read to know what they are! Just know that it's not cool, whatsoever! Neighbor is against neighbor and there's no such thing as a Good Samaritan. You just stay away.
! The First Bird series
Greig Beck
Bolinda Publishing Pty. Ltd.
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