Audiobook9 hours
Born
Written by AE Watson
Narrated by Amanda Dolan
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
The world has changed. The buildings have fallen, blown away with the winds. The roads crumble as the forest takes back the land we stole a long time ago.
It's only been ten years since the end, but it feels like a hundred for Emma, who has been alone since the beginning, surviving on the skills her crazy father forced on her.
Trust no one. Pull the trigger. Hide. Run. Stay away from the other survivors. Stay away from the Infected. She has obeyed her father's rules since she can remember running from the car accident that claimed his life. But one night that all changes. The knock at her cabin door and voice of the girl on the other side don't make Emma help the girl. No-it's the fact that the girl, Anna, is willing to die to save her wounded brother that changes everything in Emma's world.
Emma finds friends and family in Anna and her brother Jake. She feels things that she thought she never would. But like her Granny always said, "Everything comes at a cost. You must decide what you are willing to pay." For Emma, that decision comes as Anna is stolen and taken to the breeder farms. Emma knows that she will pay anything to get Anna back, including her own life.
It's only been ten years since the end, but it feels like a hundred for Emma, who has been alone since the beginning, surviving on the skills her crazy father forced on her.
Trust no one. Pull the trigger. Hide. Run. Stay away from the other survivors. Stay away from the Infected. She has obeyed her father's rules since she can remember running from the car accident that claimed his life. But one night that all changes. The knock at her cabin door and voice of the girl on the other side don't make Emma help the girl. No-it's the fact that the girl, Anna, is willing to die to save her wounded brother that changes everything in Emma's world.
Emma finds friends and family in Anna and her brother Jake. She feels things that she thought she never would. But like her Granny always said, "Everything comes at a cost. You must decide what you are willing to pay." For Emma, that decision comes as Anna is stolen and taken to the breeder farms. Emma knows that she will pay anything to get Anna back, including her own life.
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Reviews for Born
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5OMG...I just stayed up all night to read this. Once I started, I couldn't stop. There was so much that was just plain GOOD about this book. Yes, it has romance in it, but it also has a lot of the human factor in it. It is a girl who has lived alone since the beginning learning what it is to be human again, instead of just going on auto-pilot and surviving. I am getting ready to read the next one, and I know it will be just as good as the first.The fact that it is a "zombie" book was just a bonus. The whole of the book is fantastic. Most readers will not be disappointed with this. Only die hard zombiephiles will have a problem with it. I LOVE Z books too, but I am, after all, just a girl.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A girl named Emma has been living alone with her timber wolf, keeping herself alive and safe from the infected. By using her survivalist skills her father has taught and prepaired her and has been entirely avoiding other people. When a girl comes to her cabin, asking for help to save her brother, Emma allows herself to help them. As they become more closer Emma finds out that their brother Will got taken by the farms. When Emma went to the trade market she ended up being traded but when she tries to find her way home she ends up finding Will. When they say when you meet its like love at first sight? Well that is what happened to them. When they all meet together they meet at this retreat. Where Emma ends up meeting a pyscho who tries to kill her or trade her for a ticket to get into the city. Emma and Anna both get taken awsy to the farms and to escape it Emma ends up blowing it up! During her visit in the farms she finds out that she is not normal and has to try to hide it. Overall I think that ghis book was really good bug I do recomend this to any grades after 6th or maybe 7th. I really liked how this was in a distopian world. It had a tie between living in modern days and living in like an apocalypse. I gave this book 5 ratings because I really like books like these and how they contain alot of action but a little romance. This book kinda reminded me of Divergent by Veronica Roth. I think if u liked that book and you are in middle school then you will love this book.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I really, REALLY wanted to love this book, but I made it a third of the way through (my minimum for rating a book) and had to give up. My main reason for slogging through that much of it was the protagonist, Emma, who is bad. ass. I love her. She might get scared, but she's tough as nails and keeps going. I also loved the world building: Emma's post-apocalyptic world is gritty, tense, and creepy.
So why did I abandon it? Easy: not enough proofreading. The book reads like a second, maybe third, draft. Almost done, but not there. Ms. Brown has a serious prejudice against commas, and way too often, questions had periods at the end of them instead of question marks. It got to the point where I had to reread statements several times to make sense of what was being said.
Considering how highly it's being rated, I'm surprised more reviewers aren't mentioning the obvious grammatical problems. I have the feeling I would love this book it were more polished, but as it is, I plan on returning it to Amazon for a refund. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emma has been living alone in the woods with her timber wolf, keeping herself alive and safe from the infected with the survivalist skills her late father taught her and by entirely avoiding other people. When a teen comes to her cabin, asking for help for her brother, Emma knows this could compromise her safety, but she allows herself to get involved. Will she and her two new friends, Jake and Anna, be able to survive?This is a free Kindle e-book I never would have come across without a friend's recommendation. It has some typos and grammatical issues (a period after a question mark, for example), and there were times where I could have used a little more of a transition from one part of the story to the other. I thought the romance angle weak, as our heroine rather quickly "falls in love" with no real development or exploration of those feelings. However, there's also some talent for spinning a fast-paced, compelling tale (I read it in practically one sitting and bought the next two as soon as I finished). Emma is a heroine much like Katniss or Tris who can stand on her own and doesn't need a knight in shining armor to save her; while it's not quite as good as either The Hunger Games or Divergent, fans of those series will find much to enjoy here as well.