I have not posted in the longest time, but have read a few zombie books in that time at least. Going to be updating the whole site shortly, a new look (mostly) and going to make the book list alot more friendly. Plus I have a few to add to it from authors who have emailed me. So do come back often.
Been a bit busy lately with other zombie related things, in addition to fix’s and updates on the site I have currently been reading The Book of More Flesh, so I can review it later on this site. I don’t want to leave anyone hanging though so I thought of something to post.
You know you’ve read too many zombie books when you start forgetting them…. I read Plague Zone about a year ago. I just remembered when looking through StumbleUpon for sites tagged zombie books. Plague Zone is another online serialized novel by David Wellington, and you can read it here.
This story was much different than the stories in the Monster series. The zombies were your standard slow lumbering stupid gonna eat you type. Just how I like them 
. It was hard to stop reading this story, as there were many parts packed with suspense. It doesn’t take long for events to start unfolding the first zombie experience is pretty early in the story.
The story goes as most zombie stories do. A plague begins, and crawls its way through the United States. However this one isn’t covering someone looking for a cure, or the person who will bring an end to all the humans left. The story focuses on one man, who wants to permanently kill one zombie. Being a husband and a father it was pretty easy for me to relate, it was also very hard for me to think of what I would do and think if I were put in a similar situation. Overall the story was good. It wasn’t as good as the Monster Island trilogy but its still definitely worth a read. I really was not satisfied with the end, it almost felt like things needed to be wrapped up pretty fast, as if the number 60 had to be the last chapter.
The main thing that makes it hard to judge harshly is the fact its free for anyone to read. Again you can check the story out here.
Rating 3/5
This book is the second in the Morningstar Strain series by Z.A. Reicht. I read the first one two or three years ago online (while working on the help desk shh..) So I was a bit rusty on the story. Jumped onto http://www.themorningstarsaga.com to get a quick refresher before I started reading.
If you remember both groups were on their way to Omaha to get to the facility in order to start working on some sort of vaccine. The book starts off pretty much where the last one left off, with Stiles evading the infected in the first chapter. You are then taken between each group from chapter to chapter following their progress.
First Ill go into what I didn’t like about the book. It felt almost too comfortable to me as I read I felt like I pretty much knew who the author wouldn’t kill off so when they were in tough situations I didn’t worry. The ending while I wont spoil it for you, it just didn’t seem realistic to me. It was one of those “Of Course!” moments. Overall I felt the book didn’t have the same suspense as the first story did (imagining thousands upon thousands of infected coming at you in a desert is hard to top), but that’s not to say that it didn’t have of its own moments.
I did like the feel that the country was utterly destroyed. It really helps with the overall atmosphere of the story. There is also a sense of trepidation when the survivors do happen to wander into a city. I really like the climatic part of the story when the survivors (or whats left of them) do reach Omaha. That kept me pretty entertained, plus the fact that I live in Omaha made it pretty interesting.
Overall it was a good book, helped to stave off the boredom during the trip. Also I received the book as a gift for attending Omaha’s zombie walk, which was awesome considering I have been wanting to read this book for a while now.
Overall Id have to give the book a 3.5/5
I am going to kick off the reviews section with a review of Monster Island by David Wellington one of my favorite zombie novels. I read this story years ago while at work. Its the first of a trilogy by David Wellington.
The story starts off with Dekalb floating into Manhattan one month after New York has fallen to the zombie hordes. Why would anyone travel to New York during a zombie epidemic you ask? Well currently Delkab lives with his daughter Sarah in Somalia. He needs to get medication for AIDS for the warlords who run Somalia in order to earn his place in their society.
There’s many things that set this book apart from other zombie books in the genre. One very interesting thing is the way some zombies are able to hold on to their true consciousness. If you have oxygen flowing to your brain as you are “dying” you will return fully aware, theres more to it than that but I wont spoil the story. Also why is the main character currently living in Somalia? Well think about it, there are a lot of weapons, people are trained through everyday life on how to live in poor conditions with danger looming. This is also another thing I liked about the story. Something I dont think most people would think, in most stories the epidemic seems to start in Africa. These are some of the things which make this book so interesting.
There’s really not anything I can think of to say bad about it. If you like zombie novels you NEED to read this one, of course then you will need to read the other two. Originally you could read this for free on the site (chapters were released every Mon, Wed, and Fri), but now you can also buy the print copy which I recommend in order to support free serialized novels.
Rating: 5/5
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