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The Dishonored Dead: A Zombie Novel
by
Robert Swartwood (Goodreads Author)
In a not-so-distant future, the world has devolved and most of the population has become the animated dead. Those few that are living are called zombies. They are feared and must be hunted down and destroyed.
Conrad is one of the animated dead. A devoted husband, a loving father, he is the best zombie Hunter in the world. But when he hesitates one night in killing a living...more
Conrad is one of the animated dead. A devoted husband, a loving father, he is the best zombie Hunter in the world. But when he hesitates one night in killing a living...more
Paperback, 366 pages
Published
August 13th 2011
by Createspace
(first published April 11th 2011)
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Attention people these are NOT your ordinary zombies!!! And for once they are NOT after your brains!!! But please don't make the mistake that this means they are any less likely to kill you.
The dead in Swartwood's new novel are just like us. They have jobs, kids, families. The main difference is they simply aren't alive. Instead of dying, they expire. Basically they rot away. The are other differences too. For example they don't see color. Their world is black, white and various shades of grey....more
The dead in Swartwood's new novel are just like us. They have jobs, kids, families. The main difference is they simply aren't alive. Instead of dying, they expire. Basically they rot away. The are other differences too. For example they don't see color. Their world is black, white and various shades of grey....more
It was such a twist on the typical zombie stories.
In this book the "zombies" are actually us the living! We are hunted down, killed, or captured and used as lab rats, by the dead. There is an elite group of men called the "hunters" and their mission in life is to kill as many zombies as they can.
One day Conrad, leader of the hunters fails to kill a zombie and suddenly his whole life is changed. He finds out that the government has a top secret agency that they wont even acknowledge exist. Con...more
The "usual" zombie book is zombies uprising/a hero survivor/ hero joins up with group/group treks across country for some reason/ dissention fractures group/lots of people die/ continued in sequel. If you've read a lot of these, like me, they are probably a big zombie blur in your mind; and you can't quite remember one from another. This book is not that. It's a thoughtful look at a world 1000 years after the zombie apocolypse, after the undead have evolved and created a new, dead world. The "l...more
A punch in the gut. A family history, with a secret. A marriage disolving, when it can be saved, a father protecting his wife and children while trying to save the world from the monsters. A truth revealed, traitors and a society that fears any differences. Add into this mix a world that doesn't know it's own history. Great job by Robert. He doesn't make the mistake of explaining how the world got to this point, sticking to a strong story and the people involved. I would love to rave about it mo...more
An interesting twist to the classic zombie tale, where the zombie is actually the living minority after an apocalypse.
Although not a new concept, switching the tables on the majority in the future, this one is thoroughly fleshed out in the book.
Some stuff is still unexplainable, like how a dead mother can give birth to dead babies, and how the dead can mature from infant to grown up, but 'whatever', go with it and pay attention to the plot.
Not a bad story, if you don't mind a too convenient plot...more
Although not a new concept, switching the tables on the majority in the future, this one is thoroughly fleshed out in the book.
Some stuff is still unexplainable, like how a dead mother can give birth to dead babies, and how the dead can mature from infant to grown up, but 'whatever', go with it and pay attention to the plot.
Not a bad story, if you don't mind a too convenient plot...more
The twist is kind of intriguing: The book is about the dead. But the dead see the few remaining living as zombies.
The dead have a society, they live (exist) just like the living did. Only they are dead, and stuff.
However, the main character is a feeble ass, most of the plot is based on him not doing shit, and on his wife and him not communicating.
The book could easily have been edited to half the length and profited from it.
This is a good idea turned into a very tedious read. Sadly enough.
Not fo...more
The dead have a society, they live (exist) just like the living did. Only they are dead, and stuff.
However, the main character is a feeble ass, most of the plot is based on him not doing shit, and on his wife and him not communicating.
The book could easily have been edited to half the length and profited from it.
This is a good idea turned into a very tedious read. Sadly enough.
Not fo...more
LOVED this book & all others that I have read by Robert Swartwood!! Can't wait to read more by him, great author with great books that are impossible to put down once you start reading
An interesting new look at zombies and humans
On the positive side this story has an interesting and unique look about the living dead and what we percieve as zombies. I did not enjoy the carnage and sadistic torture of children in great detail. The ending left me dissapointed because of the lack of closure to the characters. It left too many questions and I'm not sure if I really care enough to want the answers.
Zombies are everywhere, and they're just like us! No, really, they are. In this future, the "zombies" are the living, and the "animated dead" are the protagonists. It's an interesting twist in an interesting tale; one in which the reader may not be quite sure whose side to root for.
For me, this novel got better once it got rolling. The setup was a little long for my taste, but it turned out to be a fun and satisfying read.
"What if...?"
For me, this novel got better once it got rolling. The setup was a little long for my taste, but it turned out to be a fun and satisfying read.
"What if...?"
A great twist on the zombie genre. I would have preferred a more scientific approach to the "solution" for dealing with the dead but once you accept the fantasy notion of the cubes the story really moves along. Predictable ending but still very satisfying.
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USA TODAY bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife, The Calling, Man of Wax, and several other novels. He created the term "hint fiction" and edited Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer.
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