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Autumn: Purification (Autumn)

by David Moody (Goodreads Author)

4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 · rating details · 1,012 ratings · 50 reviews

David Moody brings the AUTUMN trilogy to a stunning and brutal conclusion. The survivors from AUTUMN: THE CITY are imprisoned in an underground base, trapped between the door to the outside world and the sealed entrance to the airtight cocoon where hundreds of soldiers sit and wait. The crowd of bodies on the surface continues to grow in size, drawn there by the heat, ligh...more

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Published January 30th 2005 by INFECTED BOOKS (first published January 6th 2005)

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Mar 11, 2012 Jo Anne B rated it 5 of 5 stars

4.5 stars

"The balance of our world has been changed forever. Mankind is being cleansed from the face of the planet. Purification has begun."

I read this book right after the second one and enjoyed this one a lot more. This time Michael and Emma were in it from the get go and the book was all about getting to the place that could give them all a future.

There are more characters introduced who have some handy skills and knowledge but we still have Michael, Emma, Cooper, Donna, Armitage, and Croft....more

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Dec 03, 2012 Henry Wien rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Autumn Purification, by David Moody, is the 3rd book in the 6-part spine chilling Horror/Action Autumn series. The book offers a great Synopsis, “One day in September a virulent plague spread throughout the world, killing billions. Even now, the full horror of the plague is just beginning for the dead are not just dead…
One small group of survivors is imprisoned in an underground base, trapped between the door to the outside world and the sealed entrance to...more

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Apr 13, 2009 Dreadlocksmile rated it 5 of 5 stars

“Autumn: Purification” is the third book of David Moody’s four part post-apocalyptic zombie saga. Following on directly from where “Autumn: The City” left off, the reader should already be aware of all the main characters. Bursting with action from the start, the survivors are thrown once again into the dangerous rotting world of the undead, mixing horrific tension with the dark mental anguish that the survivors feel daily.
Influenced heavily but Romero’s zombie films, the book takes on many of t...more “Autumn: Purification” is the third book of David Moody’s four part post-apocalyptic zombie saga. Following on directly from where “Autumn: The City” left off, the reader should already be aware of all the main characters. Bursting with action from the start, the survivors are thrown once again into the dangerous rotting world of the undead, mixing horrific tension with the dark mental anguish that the survivors feel daily.
Influenced heavily but Romero’s zombie films, the book takes on many of the ideas and situations tackled in his “Dead” series. We meet another set of survivors who have access to a helicopter and a plane. And we finally see the survivors pulling together (well, not all of them) to try and make a future for themselves.

Perhaps the best written of the ‘Autumn’ books, ‘Purification’ uses many styles and techniques to encapsulate the harrowing experiences that the survivors go through. The book often jumps to an almost diary-like first person view-point for a chapter, to then go back to the standard third-person style. The author spends a large amount of the time submerging the reader into the emotions and mental stress of each character producing some beautiful characterization that draws you into this almost believable scenario.

The zombies take on new and interesting changes, which are detailed throughout the book. It’s almost as if they are evolving, which brings a nice twist on the classic zombie genre. The book ends in a hopeful, yet still with a dark and slightly negative tone, that concludes the books nicely. The final book of the series is “Autumn: The Human Condition”, that is a companion book which brings to an end the Autumn saga.

“Autumn: Purification” is a truly superb novel that will appeal and indeed please every good fan of the zombie genre. Original, dark, fast-paced and in-depth; the book is a fantastic piece of horror fiction.

The novel is released through David Moody's own publishing company 'Infected Books' and runs for a total of 287 pages.(less)

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Aug 31, 2012 Holden Attradies rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: zombie, fiction

So far I have enjoyed every book in this series better than the previous one. Although the beginning of the zombie infections are usually my favorite aspect of a story, I have to admit this is by far my favorite book in the series so far even though the beginnings of the infection are now long gone.

Due to the ending of the last book and I think partially from the cover art I was expecting most of this book to take place in and around the military base the characters ended up at in the last one,...more

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Mar 01, 2012 Jason rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: e-books, read-2012

4.5 Stars

"The balance of our world has been changed forever. Mankind is being cleansed from the face of the planet. Purification has begun."

Book 3 of David Moody's Autumn series comes to a well put together ending in this book Autumn: Purification. This is the final book of the main storyline even though there are two additional books in the Autumn world. The best aspect to this series is the consistency from one book to the next. This is not your everyday meat grinder zombie story where the her...more 4.5 Stars

"The balance of our world has been changed forever. Mankind is being cleansed from the face of the planet. Purification has begun."

Book 3 of David Moody's Autumn series comes to a well put together ending in this book Autumn: Purification. This is the final book of the main storyline even though there are two additional books in the Autumn world. The best aspect to this series is the consistency from one book to the next. This is not your everyday meat grinder zombie story where the heroes are all killing machines. This series main plot revolves around survival and coming to grips with loss. Loss of loved ones, of life's achievements, and of course loss of hope.

Michael, Emma, Cooper, Jack, Kelly, and Steven are all back in this final installment. The survivors from book two go through more trials and tribulations in their pursuit to try and find somewhere that they can be safe. A place where they can at least survive the new horrors of the world. They have all come to accept that they must outlast the decaying undead. Moody paints a bleak picture in this series and it is very easy to identify with this group of likable characters.

Moody's writing in this book is more polished, more descriptive, and down right just better written. He adds a great deal of feeling and emotion to this book with descriptive prose and also through implications of the unsaid as well. A good example of both is the following action scene:

"Ellis didn’t have time to think or speak, instead he concentrated on letting bullet after bullet fly into the rotting crowd. An unexpected arc of flame burnt through the air just ahead of him, illuminating the full horror of the scene for a few heart-stopping seconds. The twisted, grotesque faces of hundreds of corpses were suddenly exposed and Ellis found himself staring at them in disgust and revulsion, praying for the light to fade and the dark to return. The nearest corpses were less than ten metres ahead"

The corpses in this series, the undead, or zombies, are not like Romero's forever copied creepy shufflers. The undead in this series undergo a great number of changes, of which I will not add any spoilers by explaining what they are. These changes however, are mimiced and expressed in that of the survivors. I loved all the hidden truths and the gravity of the situation that our cast is exposed to and which they go through. Moody gives the reader a great deal to think about and to feel as this one comes to its conclusion.

The slow building of tension and danger of this book, coupled with the slow changes to the world and to the undead, after such an incredibly fast destruction gave this series an awesome feel. I really enjoyed these three books and am a fan of Moody's writing style and characterizations. To me, this series is a post apocapyltic must read. Great read.(less)

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Jan 08, 2012 Kathy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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“Forty-seven days ago, more than ninety-nine percent of the population had been killed within an impossibly short period of time. Right across the world, without any warning or explanation, the pattern was repeated as billions of lives were inexplicably ended-snuffed out and switched off with neither dignity nor malice, unimaginable numbers of innocent people discarded and abandoned and left to rot where they’d fallen.”

37 survivors huddle together in an underground military bunker. The soldiers...more “Forty-seven days ago, more than ninety-nine percent of the population had been killed within an impossibly short period of time. Right across the world, without any warning or explanation, the pattern was repeated as billions of lives were inexplicably ended-snuffed out and switched off with neither dignity nor malice, unimaginable numbers of innocent people discarded and abandoned and left to rot where they’d fallen.”

37 survivors huddle together in an underground military bunker. The soldiers stay well away fron the survivors, they have protective suits and air masks on anytime they are above ground or near the survivors. Above ground thousands and thousands of the dead converge on the area where the bunker is. Problems start to arise as the dead start to block off the air vents. The military is forced to go above round and get rid of the dead. At first it looks like the soldiers may be gaining the upper hand as the hit the dead with flame throwers and bullets until the dead break through the line and start to over-run the bunker. The survivors and tow of the soldiers are forced to flee in a hurry.
The survivors drive in their small convoy for some time before stopping on the outskirts of a small town. They take refuge in a pub. Not long after the survivors settle down to rest they get some unexpected visitors. A helicopter lands and a man and woman climb out of the helicopter. Karen and Richard explains that there are other survivors hiding out at an airfield. They tell them that they know of a small island not far off shore that they are in the process of clearing the dead off of. They invite the group to go with them.
The survivors know they can’t stay where they are but can they trust the two strangers? Eventually they realize they have no choice and follow the two strangers back to the airfield. The tip to the airfield is fraught with danger as the dead continue to follow. Getting everyone to the island is not going to be as easy as they first hoped. The dead start amassing by the thousands outside the airfield.
This is the third book in the Autumn series. Another edge of you seat nail biter that keeps the reader turning pages. Great series.(less)

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Jun 21, 2012 Katie Kenig rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: apocolyptic, horror

Third in Moody's series of zombie novels that never mention "the z word".

Because rotting corpses... well, rot... things are getting slightly different for the survivors. The creatures that have been tormenting them are changing. They are less on the attack and more on the move for self-preservation. Will this be better or worse for the survivors? Since the survivors are perceived as a threat to the survival of zombies, you do the math.

Our intrepid band, holed up in the underground military bunk...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Luis Dantas rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Genre fans who enjoy focus on the characters as opposed to action and sci-fi

Better than the previous two books, "Purification" spends less time establishing or reminding us of the absurd and danger of the situation and therefore has more space for both action and character development.

It provides answers, as well, albeit hardly any definitive ones. I happen to like it better that way; it would be pretty absurd for a zombie apocalypse scenario to give us solid, unquestionable answers about What Truly Happened. All the same, Purification comes quite close, as far as would...more

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Aug 28, 2011 Rebecca Snow rated it 5 of 5 stars

Having read David Moody’s original book Autumn online for free a bunch of years back and gotten The City a few months back with a Border’s coupon, I knew I had to pre-order Purification when it popped up as a suggestion for me on Amazon back in March. Mr. Moody’s portrayal of survivors among a billion dead makes for an astounding read. There are always those people you want to shake, or hug, or just leave alone. While reading the books, I couldn’t find a single character I could shrug off and no...more

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Dec 27, 2012 EinsteinShrugged rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, fiction, read-in-2012

I am a big fan of the Hater series by Moody and picked up the Autumn series thinking it would be just as good. I should, perhaps, reconsider how often I go around thinking. I managed to finished Autumn, Autumn: Disintegration and Autumn: Purification and am giving them all the same reviews here just so that I might save another bibliophile the same fate.

The Autumn series is slow, two-dimensional, filled with gawd-awful dialogue and generally a chore to read. The fact that I read the full three...more

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Jun 18, 2012 Joseph Barnes rated it 5 of 5 stars

Here we go...Book 3... This is where I get a little confused. There are several books in the series and this one seemed to wrap everything up. Don't get me wrong. It's a great book and a great ending; however you find out at the beginning of book 4 that there were some complications with the publishers and the author had actually written some other books with different characters but the same major plot. I don't thank the other books should have been added to the set but what the heck. I'm off t...more

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Mar 02, 2012 Tfrances rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: zombies

OMG!! This series gets me every time. It’s uber scary, but with so much introspection and characterization. This volume picks up just weeks after Autumn: The City. We’re thrown right into the situation with little exposition. I like this. I don’t want to read three chapters getting readers up to speed. Very clearly this is part of a series. I love when authors assume that the readers actual read the previous books and remembered them. It saves a lot of time and unnecessary words. And Moody does...more

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Nov 16, 2012 Metagion rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a cool book, and I recommend it...Lots of zombies (of course) but it takes the perspective of not only the survivors but also the military as they deal with the Undead threat and the conditions that they endure in survival...I really like the fact that it draws you in and makes you feel the desperation of the folks (military AND civilian alike) and the conditions they face. The ONLY drawback to these series is it's set in England; if you're not familiar with English phrases and places yo...more

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Jun 13, 2012 Scottnval Zeck rated it 3 of 5 stars

I dont want to say I liked these books but I did not dislike them and I did keep reading them. It was sort of like not being able to turn away from watching a horrible accident. I am not calling the trilogy a horrible accident but in the books its like one bad thing to another bad thing to the worst possible thing. And after the end of the first book I thought to myself "what the hell was all that for". So if that is what David Moody was going for then bravo.

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Apr 24, 2012 Florence rated it 5 of 5 stars

Really great "zombie" read. David Moody has the ability to describe the most terrifying scenes ever. With each of his Autumn books I had been terrifyed to go outside because the undead could be walking. It was a well written terrifyingly good book. Not only did he describe the dead decaying flesh amazingly but he also describe the desolate of the people living in that world. Very realistic for a zombie book.

This one is the fastest paced Autumn book through out the whole story. Which is amazing.

I...more

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May 08, 2012 BookJunkie rated it 4 of 5 stars

GREAT series still.. I enjoyed this book just as much as the others.. I am looking forward to what happens with the group.. I hope there is more in store for Michael and Emma.. I am also looking forward to hearing more about Cooper.. I would have to say they are my favorites.. There were parts in there I was like what.. nail biting and yes even at times sitting there talking to myself about things they could do or should have done.. lol.. although you tell anyone I will deny it.. Looking forward...more

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May 12, 2011 Vicki Krivak rated it 3 of 5 stars

The third entry in David Moody's popular Autumn series, Purification picks up where The City left off,
with survivors being driven out of the military base by thousands of the dead. They find themselves
scrambling to find a place more permanent to make their stand.
Overall, I recommend this series of books for those who like zombie stories. I have enjoyed all of them
so far. They are a quick, easy read.

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Jul 01, 2012 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think this series has gotten a little better with each book. I LOVE the cover art for this one.

When I started the first book, it reminded me a little bit of The Stand which set the bar SERIOUSLY high (sorry, Mr. Moody). When a mysterious virus wipes out 99% of the earth's population in a single morning the survivors are left trying to find some way to go on. The difference here? After a couple of days these dead bodies get back up.

Very creepy stuff, I can't wait to see how this series wraps u...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Ymoinda rated it 5 of 5 stars

This third installment continues the excellence of writing and character development that Moody started with. Even though there is less that needs to be explained and examined, the story – in and of itself –brings the reader in and it is a completely enjoyable read.

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Mar 05, 2012 Becky rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The survivors from AUTUMN and AUTUMN: THE CITY have finally come together and are holed up in a military bunker. Unfortunately, the soldiers in said bunker have been cut off from the virus and are not immune, making things complicated for the groups. As the dead swarm above, the survivors come to the conclusion that they must soon move on. Their opportunity comes when the soldiers begin a mass attack on the horde outside.

Third in the series of five presents new challenges to the growing group....more

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Apr 30, 2009 Schnaucl rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: april, fiction, horror, library, read_2009, series, zombies

I had a much harder time getting into this book.

The focus really isn't on the zombies this time, instead the story is about what comes after when the zombie threat is dying down and people have to start rebuilding.

It's interesting, but doesn't have the urgency of the earlier books.

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Sep 08, 2012 Bryan Trudel rated it 3 of 5 stars

Good book but it seems like its not going anywhere really. I hope it picks up or some kind of progression happens. Totally gonna read the next book tho.

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Mar 31, 2012 Peapod rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Good, a little less gore than the previous ones, but that is only because at this point the bodies are practically skeletons. Lost two good characters in this one...bummed about that.

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Apr 17, 2012 Maribel Tostado rated it 5 of 5 stars

I was not dissapointed by the book. Like all his other work I always can't seem to it down. The only character I can't seem to stand and really want to die is Donna.

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Oct 21, 2011 Marie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: david-moody-s-books

Well, David Moody does it again and has surpassed his previous work w/ gut wrenching, seat of your pants, emotional rollercoster realism that even Stephen King would be impressed. I really appreciate his ability to capture every nuance of the human experience. This one really made me sit back and say "Hell, what would I have done in their situation"? I just thank god that the dead don't actually come back in such a fashion or we would certainly be proverbially screwed... to put it mildly!! Good...more

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Aug 15, 2012 George-GZM rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this third part, everything is going according to Murphy's law: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"… but hope still remains.
Or maybe not…

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Sep 29, 2011 Mokieblylk rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

lots more dialogue between characters in this book and i think it took away from the actual description unlike the previous Autumn books.

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Jun 07, 2012 Richard rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror

Just like the the two before couldn't put it down.

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Jan 09, 2012 John rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

As with the other two books very very good enjoyed it very much, now onto "Disintergration"

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Jul 23, 2012 Pippa rated it 5 of 5 stars

shockingly fast speed of reading. zombies out

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David Moody was born in 1970 and grew up in Birmingham on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction books and movies. He worked as a bank manager and as operations manager for a number of financial institutions before giving up the day job to write about the end of the world for a living. He has written a number of horror novels, including AUTUMN, which has been downloaded more than half a...more

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