The Living (The Immune, #5) by David Kazzie

The Living (The Immune, #5) Reviews

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  Landpomeranze

  All in all not a bad series and in parts a lot better than other survival stories I've read. Unfortunately there are a few things that just did not make any kind of sense and it started out far better than it ended. Especially the last book was far to full of conspiracy theories and coincidences for my taste. So thirteen years had passed and the survivors still lived by digging through abandoned warehouses and are freezing. Because they live near Omaha. Nebraska.
  
  I live in Germany so I am not familiar with the climate in Nebraska. But I am fairly certain that there are areas in the great US of A where the weather would be a bit more comfortable than Nebraska if you don't have electricity or central heating.
  
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  J.P. Cane

  The Living is a worthy follow up to The Immune. We leap ahead 13 years to find Rachel Fisher
  surviving, but only that, in a community in Nebraska. With so much of humanity dead, food supplies dwindling, and crops failing, there is little to hope for. Especially since any babies that are born soon die, succumbing to the Medusa virus. But one child has survived--Rachel's son, Will. Now 11 years old, Will, for many, is special, a sign of hope that there is a future to be had. And that makes him very
  valuable to the wrong people. Kazzie continues the thrilling story line from The Immune and adds more of the unexpected. Good read!
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  Belynda

  I needed more! I desperately searched for more books on this series! David Kazzie - I need more!
  Ignored everything and read this straight through!
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  doreen

  Loved the first Immune books. I really liked Adam and was disappointed that he was killed off early in this book. Its a very depressing book of gloom and doom. Not much hope out there. I wasn't a fan of the ending of this book. I feel like there should be more. Maybe another book will come out.
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  Tracy Neu

  I give this book 2.5 stars. This book has a lot of problems. Its a hot mess, and really annoying. Did no one edit it, or even read it before publishing? The story isn’t bad. I enjoyed the four previous books, that’s why I felt I had to finish it. There are glaring errors and contradictions everywhere in this book. An example, they are in a car, driving from Lincoln, NE to Denver. The book states, the car goes no faster than 30 mph, so they drove 400 miles in 10 hours (page 253, I actually looked it up to double check, and yes, that’s what it says). Hmm, obviously the author is not very good at math! Also, it is 500 miles from Lincoln to Denver, they drove 400 miles in one day, yet it took them 4 days to get there? These are the type of errors I find very annoying in a book, and there are many in this one. Something else that was weird, all the windows,in all the houses are broken due to weather? Seriously, are these all paper windows? This is repeated in all the houses they visit. The plants are another confusing issue. No plants grow, or have grown since the end of the world, but the roads are falling apart due to weeds, bushes and trees growing in all the roads? The grass and weeds are waist high, but no plants grow? I don’t think so. Make up your mind! Either stuff, plants, trees grow or they don’t. Seems he wants it both ways.
  I don’t understand what happened between the first four books and this one. This book felt like an afterthought, or something forced that someone didn’t want to do. How did no one point out the many errors in this story when editing? The only thing that saved this book from a 2 was the story itself. If you are reading this book without having read the first 4, don’t. Skip it. If you are reading this book, like me, to finish the series, good luck!
  Reading this book is like reading someone’s first draft, that what it’s like!
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  Aly Wayne

  Trying to like this more
  
  This book finishes the Immune story. It starts 13 years after book 4 ends. We find out how Rachel is immune and has a child. This is where the story’s timeline falls apart. Better editing and proofreading could have made this a great finale to the Immune story. Timeline mistakes happen several times and change several characters backstory within single chapters. If you can ignore these glaring errors, it’s a great read. I wish they had taken the time to get these glaring issues handled and then it would have been at least a 4 star if not 5 stars. Good editing can make or break a story.
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  2shay

  Review by 2shay..........
  
  It’s thirteen years later, since the last page of The Immune. The world is more brutal than what we last saw. Much more. During the Medusa virus outbreak, several countries felt threatened by enemies, and launched nuclear attacks, causing a weather calamity. Crops failed, livestock and game died from lack of food. The food crisis is extreme. There are those who will kill for a single meal.
  
  This is the world that Dr. Adam Fisher must navigate after rescuing his daughter, Rachel, from The Citadel in the previous book. But this is Rachel’s story, not her father’s. Rachel has a 12-year-old son, Will, and a husband, Eddie. Rachel and Eddie are at odds about pretty much everything, and only stay together because there are limited places to live. On the other hand, Rachel loves her son beyond reason.
  
  There have been many babies born in the years since Medusa struck, but they all died within days...all but Will. Women now tried hard to avoid pregnancy, the loss was far too painful. Rachel, having the only surviving child, redefined the term “helicopter mom”. She guards and protect him from everything, including his lukewarm father. They have established themselves in a small community they call Evergreen, where they have a bit of food security, but nothing lasts in this brutal world.
  
  Word has spread to,outsiders that there is a surviving child in the Evergreen community. Others want him, with the idea of discovering how he survived when no others had. A group led by a woman named Priya approaches and eventually attacks Evergreen, destroying their food supply and killing many. Rachel grabs Will and escapes. But now she also wonders why she, her father and her son all survived Medusa. So few had, and there are no known family groups who were immune to the virus. Except the Fishers. Three generations. After Rachel knew for sure that people would kill and die to discover why they all lived, she‘s determined to learn the secret herself.
  
  And there begins the real tale. David Kazzie has created a story that reduces the world to its most basic level. Simple survival. It’s almost too realistic. The possibilities. Brilliantly written, this is a look at humans at their worst...and their best. Grab your copy and...
  
  Enjoy!
  
  
  
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  Clare

  This and the first book are great examples of a good, old fashioned virus-related apocalypse.. no zombies, aliens or freakish weather.. but plenty of death, devastation and human beings at their very worst. Masterfully written with a twisting storyline that holds your attention tightly in its grip.
  
  I didn’t much like the female protagonist.. I liked her father a lot more.. but surprisingly for me, this didn’t detract from my desire to want to keep reading. Very highly recommended. These are the first I’ve read from the author and I’ll be looking out for more.
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  Laurie Cook

  Devil in the details
  
  Sooo much post-apocalyptic realism here...I think most of us who wonder with secret longing about what life would be like in a world with far fewer people, imagine it to be an adventure, with less stress in many ways. This story is nothing like that. The authors clearly put a lot of thought into what such a world would be like and it is not pretty. This book was very enjoyable but be sure to read the Immune first.
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  Janet Kirsten

  This book certainly lived up to being the sequel to The Immune Omnibus. After the virus almost totally destroys the world, those who remain, who are the "living" have to face so many more challenges than they originally thought. The heroine, who has the only child who appears to be immune to the virus and lives to be a young boy becomes a target and the Mom's struggle to keep him safe becomes a true struggle. Amazing author uses emotions about as well as any other author I've read. The ending, as in The Immune Omnibus, just blew me away. Great read.
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  Jennifer Ford

  This is the sequel to David Kazzie’s post-apocalyptic thriller The Immune. I really enjoyed this journey which begins a decade after the Medusa virus wiped out >90% of the population. Again, he shows the horrors that mankind inflict upon each other and the struggles that would be encountered by trying to survive in this dead new world. I had a hard time putting this book down and can’t wait for more from David Kazzie.
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  Kim

  Truthfully, I didn't actually completely finish this one, I've got about 25% left, but I've put the book down so long now that I've forgotten whats going on in it. I do know that I did enjoy it, I just got tired of that particular drama, the stuff that happened I wasn't ready for and didn't particularly want to happen, then I started reading a string of easy fluff happily ever after books and didn't feel like going back to it.
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  ♥ Marlene♥

  So glad that there was another book with a kind of ending. This book begins 13 years after the events that happened in the other books and I again enjoyed it. A very quick and fun read.
  
  Why I have the need to read books like this while we are now in the coronavirus times where here in my country the restaurants and bars have been closed for a while and life is so different for many a people.
  I know! Probably because I can now think it is not that bad. Look what could have happened! LOL
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  Paul Madsen

  A Post Apocalyptic tale worthy of your time
  
  Rachel survives 13 years of brutal life raising her 11 year old son in world without other children. Other groups what her son but a mother much protect him and make tough choices along the way. This thriller and the rest of the story would make a great flick on the big screen.
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  Susan Tydings

  The first 4-books I read in a special 500+ page volume, No sense of forcing myself to plod through the pages.It was packed with action.A horrific worldwide pandemic was wiping out society.I was captivatedh with the very first page of Immune. Even though the genre and storyline have been written about many, many times in the past 20 years, this seem to have a different mission, I was engaged with the author and really didn’t want for the story to end. I was excited to know that there was a sequel called “The Living”. Well, Out of deference to the author who writes so well, this story continued, And continued, and continued……The sequel was well written but didn’t contain any exotic apocalyptic dystonian morsels I could sink my teeth into. But I didn’t have to muddle through it; I enjoyed it regardless, it just didn’t maintain The Immune’s fast, fast pace. However, the last fourth of the novel was abolutely riveting and wrapped the entire story together. I am so glad I didn’t give up the Read midway through the sequel. I just wish there was more “meat” to the story. I don’t know if the author got stuck during writing the sequel but 1/2 of the sequel was too slow. I apologize to the reader for not completing this review well, however, I am losing my sight and my eyes are way too tired to fight this broken iPhone that has given up on grammar and spell check.I wanted, while my mind was fresh from the Read, to put my thoughts on paper and explain the dilemma I had with enjoying and finishing the sequel to “The Immune”. I am so glad I stuck with it.
  
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  Sharon Abrams

  This was a really good book, but I did not like the ending. Maybe leaving room for another book to be written? So many unanswered questions!
  
  Such a good book but I didn't like the ending. Maybe leaving room f.or another book to be written? So many unanswered questions!
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  Dominique

  I hope there will be more to come
  
  Great book to fill out the last one because why would you want a happy ending? I enjoyed the grim reality within the story. And I could feel Racheal's all consuming maternal love for her son. Look forward to more.