FEVER

A father and a son create a community in which everyone is a pioneer, for better or worse, after a virus kills 90 percent of the world's population. Narrator Will Damron employs an array of voices for the residents of the benevolent community created by Willem Storm. Storm's son, Nico, gives the first-person account. Damron uses a consistently deep voice for Domingo, a stern, mysterious leader. He brings fire and brimstone to an evangelical pastor. And he uses a clipped, slightly British accent for a woman with critical engineering skills. He also handles secondary characters wonderfully--from a pilot who is a bit nasally to a scared little boy. Kudos to the author for focusing on survival skills without zombies, and to a narrator who pays attention to character development. M.B. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2018]