Posts tagged zombie book
Domain of the Dead: Zombie Duality
Unlike most folks, I read Domain of the Dead by Iain McKinnon after I read Remains of the Dead, and I’m glad that I did. I felt god-like knowing what had happened to the ones that were left behind, while the three who flew off in the helicopter were left to wonder about the fate of their friends. You see, [...]
Fortunes & Failures in the Dead Series
Dead: Fortunes & Failures is the third installment in the Dead series by TW Brown. He did a great job of recapping prior events through flashback memories of the characters reminiscing about their survival experiences, but I strongly recommend revisiting the first two novels if you have the time. In Dead: Ugly Beginning, the first book in this series, a [...]
Forget The Postman, The Last Mailman Is The Real Badass!
The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies by Kevin J. Burke is not at all what I was expecting from the title. It is not about a man delivering mail between survivor outposts or anything like that. It’s about survivors trying to tie up loose ends, so they can move on with their new lives; sometimes they find [...]
Apocalyptic Asshole in The Undead Situation
I just finished reading The Undead Situation by Eloise J Knapp, and I’m starting to think that the latest trend in zombie novels is to make the protagonist a real asshole. I don’t mean someone unlikeable, I mean someone who keeps you hooked into the story because you want to watch them die a slow and agonizing death. Pretty much [...]
Uncivil Dead: Soldiers vs. Zombies
Uncivil Dead by Jeremiah Coe is a Civil War story about Union and Confederate soldiers forced to make a last stand together against a zombie outbreak. Some Southerners living in a little town called Walnut Woods were sympathetic to the cause of the North, and gave information about nearby Confederate troops. Concerned that the residents of Walnut Woods would face [...]
Remains of the Dead: ZOMBIE PLAGUE 1, MANKIND 0
Remains of the Dead by Iain McKinnon is one hell of a sequel to Domain of the Dead, but can easily function as a stand-alone. Technically, the two books are just different perspectives of the same timeline. In both, a helicopter full of soldiers is sent out from a military ship to bring back zombie specimens for the scientists to [...]
Joe McKinney’s Dead World Series: Texas is Ground Zero
The first time that I read Dead City by Joe McKinney was when the book was first released in November 2006. Back then, my son was only a year old, so the scene with Eddie Hudson struggling to release his son from the car seat – while zombies closed in around them – really scared the shit out of me. [...]
Ex-Patriots: Kick-Ass Sequel to Ex-Heroes!!
Several times in the past, I have expressed my opinion that Craig DiLouie and Patrick D’Orazioset the standard for 2011 zombie novels. While I have spent the year reading some fabulous apocalyptic stories about the undead, none of them achieved the caliber of Tooth and Nail and The Dark Trilogy…until now. Ex-Patriots is a brilliant novel by Peter Clines, the [...]
Zomblog: The Final Entry
In the first Zomblog, Samuel Todd starts the journal to chronicle his encounters with various groups, including some survivors trying to fortify a warehouse. In Zomblog II, Meredith, a companion of Sam’s, takes over the journal. She is pregnant with Sam’s child, but gives the baby up for adoption to a couple staying at The Warehouse Complex, and finds refuge [...]
Jonathan Maberry’s Dead of Night
Dead of Night is Maberry’s twisted homage to the zombie genre, sacrificing his characters to appease the zombiephiles. When Jonathan Maberry wrote this novel, he created so much more than your usual characters trying to get from Point A to Point B without being killed; reading Maberry’s story was like being trapped in a labyrinth with the undead — you’re [...]
