Horror Sci-Fi Box Set: Three Novels

By: Bryan Dunn

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“Dunn delivers a brisk page-turner that thrills and chills.” – Scott Nicholson MOON ROCKS: A NASA moon rock “hatches” releasing an alien creature into the Texas countryside. THAW: A bush pilot and a biologist discover an ancient terror entombed in an iceberg. CREEPERS: A group of locals struggle to save their home after a genetically altered creeper vine invades a small desert town.

Monsters monsters monsters!

I enormously enjoy all of Bryan Dunn’s action/horror work. This moon-monster novel was spectacular! I was so entertained I listened to MOON ROCKS in one listen. When I realized I was coming to the end, I slowed down the narrative so I’d have more time to enjoy it.

I wish I had known there was a 3 volume set of his novels BEFORE
I had gotten THAW. Oh well, I’m not upset as it all lead me to the work of this wonderful author.

Horror/Action is my favorite genre and I sincerely hope Bryan Dunn continues to create such books. Most other authors in this genre seem to have limited imaginations. Bryan Dunn’s novels have exquisite details that only come with a lot of research. Bryan places his characters in ever increasing and unique dangers as he slowly (or not so slowly) keeps rising the story’s temperature. It ever increases until you are cooked in hot lava and the book has scored 100 on the HEART-POUNDING-0-METER!

From book to book Bryan Dunn is developing a better and better approach to this genre’s “hero’s Journey”. He is making his characters less one sided. I really like when he makes antagonists so realistic that you start to understand and like them as well as the hero. When he is really on, you’re not sure who is going to survive and who isn’t.
While all that drama-romance is there as staging, I believe Bryan Dunn never loses sight of point of the book. Monster, monsters and more monsters!
My only problem was the AI narrator was set a tad too high on the “up-beat & perky” setting. It’s descriptions of the terribly horrifying scenes were jolting and kept knocking me out of the storytelling.

Just kept drifting off

The computer voice is impressive, but it’s so without personality I kept on losing focus when listening. Maybe the story was the problem, I’m not sure. It was free.

Way better than I thought it would be!

Firstly, I don't listen to A.I. voiced audio books. But got so tired of the lacklust books from the free sci fi catalog that I gave it a try.This author has GREAT character development. Flawed but likeable characters that you root for. Nice humor but not too much. Could see "Thawed" being a movie. Surprisingly, the A.I. Was pretty good. Some missed pronunciations here & there, but enjoyed the stories so much I didnt mind. Guess I'll give other A.I. books a try. Looking for more from this author.

Okay

each story is decent. The author has some good ideas however, some of the stories just drag on if he cut the stories down by half it’ll make most of them five star.

should be a short story

The story, what little I was able to get through sounded interesting, however, the writer and editor seemed to think filling up a bunch of pages with cursing and using the Lord's name in vain was a great thing. If you took away the hundreds maybe even more cursing sessions from the book it would make it a novelette or worse a really short story. The writer and editor do not think the readers are capable of understanding a bad situation and being able to envision, on our own how we think the people will react. Real story tellers allow the story to flow and let the reader fill in the gaps, not distract us.