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mcbeezie's review against another edition
I found this book really interesting. I had to keep listening as the story peaked my interest and I needed to find out what would happen next. I am excited to listen to the next book in the series. I thought the narrator did a good job with the pacing and characters.
gatun's review against another edition
4.0
Tainted Cure: The Rememdium Series, Book 1
Written by: Ashley Fontainne
Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts
Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:03-15-16
Publisher: RMSW Press
The premise of Tainted Cure is that secret research has been ongoing for about ten years to find a permanent cure of addiction, all addiction. The research is achieved by addicting rodents to opioids. Once addicted, different formulas are tested on the rodents. Only after ten thousand plus formulas does one work. The next step is to select, literally off the streets, and use them as human test subjects.
The potential to end addiction has great benefit for many, many people. It will not benefit those who produce, distribute and sell drugs. Having a mole inside the lab keeping a drug cartel lord informed, the plan is to stop the cure from being produced and reverse engineer it to make drugs more addictive. There is an unexpected side effect.
The main characters in the book range from scientist to drug lords to preppers and people caught in the middle. None of the characters are really fleshed out well. The plot moves between the different people and places.
Rebecca Roberts does a fantastic job narrating this book. Listening to her tell the story is much better than reading it. She infuses life into a plot and characters which otherwise seem flat. Her male as well as female characters are well done. I am never disappointed in any narrations done by Rebecca Roberts. Whether the book is poor, fair, good or excellent, her narration is always perfect.
Overall 4
Performance 5
Story 3
Written by: Ashley Fontainne
Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts
Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:03-15-16
Publisher: RMSW Press
The premise of Tainted Cure is that secret research has been ongoing for about ten years to find a permanent cure of addiction, all addiction. The research is achieved by addicting rodents to opioids. Once addicted, different formulas are tested on the rodents. Only after ten thousand plus formulas does one work. The next step is to select, literally off the streets, and use them as human test subjects.
The potential to end addiction has great benefit for many, many people. It will not benefit those who produce, distribute and sell drugs. Having a mole inside the lab keeping a drug cartel lord informed, the plan is to stop the cure from being produced and reverse engineer it to make drugs more addictive. There is an unexpected side effect.
The main characters in the book range from scientist to drug lords to preppers and people caught in the middle. None of the characters are really fleshed out well. The plot moves between the different people and places.
Rebecca Roberts does a fantastic job narrating this book. Listening to her tell the story is much better than reading it. She infuses life into a plot and characters which otherwise seem flat. Her male as well as female characters are well done. I am never disappointed in any narrations done by Rebecca Roberts. Whether the book is poor, fair, good or excellent, her narration is always perfect.
Overall 4
Performance 5
Story 3
petra_reads's review against another edition
5.0
My original Tainted Cure audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.
Imagine scientists would find a cure for drug addiction. Many people could benefit and many would welcome this development. But then imagine the reaction of those who make a living from producing and selling drugs, those who have a stake in keeping people addicted. Imagine the drug got in the wrong hands and was altered with catastrophic consequences that would affect all of humankind.
With Tainted Cure, Ashley Fontainne has created an imaginative new series, one that is totally different from those books of hers that I have read before. While the zombie / dystopian genre isn’t something that I would usually pick up, I had to give this a go when I saw it once again combined Fontainne’s writing with Rebecca Roberts’ narrating. I’m so glad I did.
Tainted Cure is an exciting and suspenseful thriller that is full of the Fontainne-typical characters which you root for and sympathize with. Despite the blood and Zombie gore, there is still the distinctive humor (loved the Walmart bit) and the characteristic twists and turns and complete surprises. The story line about Benito’s fiancée was freaking fantastic!
This is the sort of story you really want to go into without having read too much about the content. So I won’t give any more away.
As expected, the narration was excellent. Rebecca Roberts creates believable male voices and the distinct variation between all the characters makes for easy and very pleasant listening. She always makes the story come to life. There were no issues with the quality of the production.
Definitely another success for Ashley Fontainne and highly recommended even if you are not into Zombies and apocalyptic stories. Looking forward to part two, [bc:Tainted Reality|29924002|Tainted Reality (The Rememdium Series Book 2)|Ashley Fontainne|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1460763795s/29924002.jpg|50306594] Tainted Reality, which has just been released on audio.
Audiobook provided for review by the audiobookreviewer.com
Imagine scientists would find a cure for drug addiction. Many people could benefit and many would welcome this development. But then imagine the reaction of those who make a living from producing and selling drugs, those who have a stake in keeping people addicted. Imagine the drug got in the wrong hands and was altered with catastrophic consequences that would affect all of humankind.
With Tainted Cure, Ashley Fontainne has created an imaginative new series, one that is totally different from those books of hers that I have read before. While the zombie / dystopian genre isn’t something that I would usually pick up, I had to give this a go when I saw it once again combined Fontainne’s writing with Rebecca Roberts’ narrating. I’m so glad I did.
Tainted Cure is an exciting and suspenseful thriller that is full of the Fontainne-typical characters which you root for and sympathize with. Despite the blood and Zombie gore, there is still the distinctive humor (loved the Walmart bit) and the characteristic twists and turns and complete surprises. The story line about Benito’s fiancée was freaking fantastic!
This is the sort of story you really want to go into without having read too much about the content. So I won’t give any more away.
As expected, the narration was excellent. Rebecca Roberts creates believable male voices and the distinct variation between all the characters makes for easy and very pleasant listening. She always makes the story come to life. There were no issues with the quality of the production.
Definitely another success for Ashley Fontainne and highly recommended even if you are not into Zombies and apocalyptic stories. Looking forward to part two, [bc:Tainted Reality|29924002|Tainted Reality (The Rememdium Series Book 2)|Ashley Fontainne|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1460763795s/29924002.jpg|50306594] Tainted Reality, which has just been released on audio.
Audiobook provided for review by the audiobookreviewer.com
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