Review – Twisted World by Kate L. Mary

Twisted World by Kate L. Mary
Narrated by Heather Firth
Series: Twisted #1
Publisher: Twisted Press, LLC
Publication Date: March 2, 2018
Date Read: August 28, 2019
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Source: Author
★★★★☆

Twenty years ago, a deadly virus swept the globe, ravaging the population. People died and came back as monsters, and through the tragedy that rocked the world, survivors were born. Megan James is the product of survivors. Her parents crossed hundreds of miles of dangerous countryside to reach Atlanta and the promise of a real future.

Now, two decades later, Meg is facing a crisis of her own. Her father has vanished and is presumed dead, and her mom is teetering on the edge of insanity, but all Meg really wants is to return to the safe world she always thought she was living in. Only Atlanta isn’t everything her parents thought it would be. The slums have grown and corruption is rampant, and despite the promise of democracy, the new government has been slow to change. Through it all, the only consistency seems to be the zombies. Decayed and barely more than skeletons, there is no reason they should still be moving. But they are.

Facing the harsh world alone, Meg gets a job in the entertainment district of Atlanta where she meets convict fighter Donaghy. Angry at the world and his circumstances, all the fighter really wants is to be left alone. But when he gets swept up in Meg’s problems, he finds it impossible to turn his back on her.

When a mysterious note resurrects old rumors about what the CDC is really doing, Meg can’t help wondering if her father might have met the same fate that her uncle did 20 years earlier. With the help of Donaghy, she will search for the truth among the darkness that has settled over Atlanta, where they’ll soon discover that the mutated virus has brought forth creatures nobody could have imagined, and the evil intentions of the men in charge are much more sinister than anyone ever thought possible, making the future look harsher than ever before.

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I had a great time with this audiobook.  I recently read six of the seven books in Kate L. Mary’s Broken World series and really enjoyed myself.  When I saw that there was another series set in the same world, I knew that I needed to read those books.  Once I started listening, I couldn’t stop and ended up finishing the book in just a couple of days which is pretty fast for me with a book this length.  It is safe to say that I enjoyed this book.

As I mentioned, this book is set in the same world as the Broken World series.  I was happily surprised to find that many of the characters that I had grown to love in the first series were back in this book, just twenty years older.  I think that readers could start with this book without any issues but readers of the earlier series will have some additional background information that could be helpful.

This book is partially told from Megan’s point of view.  Megan is Axl and Vivian’s daughter and it was really nice to get to see her all grown up and navigating the world as competently as her parents had done in the previous series.  Megan’s father is missing and her mother isn’t dealing with things very well so it is up to Megan to keep things together.  She gets a couple of jobs in order to keep the bills paid.  One of her jobs is in the entertainment district where she meets a convict fighter named Donaghy.  It quickly becomes evident that there is more going on than Megan originally realized.  I really liked both Megan and Donaghy’s characters and I thought that they made a wonderful pair.

I liked the mystery in this book.  The zombies have changed and it seems that there may be a whole mystery around those changes.  The CDC was the organization that saved the world from the zombies but it seems they may be involved in a whole lot more.  There were a few characters that I spent a lot of time trying to work out their true identities.  There was a lot of action in this story to keep things very interesting.

Heather Firth did a great job with the narration of this book.  I thought that she did a fantastic job with both the female and male points of view in this story.  Her reading helped to bring this story to life by adding a lot of emotion to it.  Her pacing was very well done and I found her voice to be very pleasant to listen to for hours at a time.

I would recommend this book to others.  I think that this is a very well done story set in an interesting world.  I thought that this book had a wonderful combination of action, mystery, and great characters.  I cannot wait to start reading the rest of the series.

I received a review copy of this audiobook from the author.

About the Author

Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance! Her YA book, When We Were Human, was a 2015 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and a 2016 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner for Young Adult Science Fiction. Her book Outliers was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction, a Finalist in the 2018 Wishing Shelf Book Awards, and the First Place Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction. Tribe of Daughters was recently named as an Honorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book Awards.

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