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One year after the Michaluk Virus decimated the southeast, Ethan Bennett and his six companions have become as close as family while facing the trials of living in a drastically changed world. Then a mysterious woman arrives at their safe house in Alabama, pleading for assistance in getting into Atlanta. Despite their suspicions that the woman is hiding important informati
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Paperback, 256 pages
Published
July 2012
by Permuted Press
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This is a 4.5 review.
What can I say? Jessica Meigs can write a kickass zombie story! The second book in her THE BECOMING series picks up about a year after the first book ends. The leap forward threw me off just a little, but she brings the readers up to speed very quickly on the changed dynamic of the characters from the first book. Once the reader has a good handle on just what is going on in the world of the survivors, Jessica upends the whole thing and sends our characters scrambling.
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What can I say? Jessica Meigs can write a kickass zombie story! The second book in her THE BECOMING series picks up about a year after the first book ends. The leap forward threw me off just a little, but she brings the readers up to speed very quickly on the changed dynamic of the characters from the first book. Once the reader has a good handle on just what is going on in the world of the survivors, Jessica upends the whole thing and sends our characters scrambling.
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Finished yesterday. 3rd installment of the saga (yes, I've read Brothers in Arms which is a spin-off, but it counts!). I've approached it with mixed feelings as I do believe in the "continuation syndrome" which usually applies to second book released after great opening.
Jessica's book, The Becoming, stole some time of my life. I was positively surprised with great dialog lines and attention to details. Good news for the fans: Ground Zero is equally good! Story progresses further and game is on t ...more
Jessica's book, The Becoming, stole some time of my life. I was positively surprised with great dialog lines and attention to details. Good news for the fans: Ground Zero is equally good! Story progresses further and game is on t ...more

I received this ARC for honest review by the author. Wow , where do I start ? This book starts with the diary entry of Avi Geller , including a short synopsis of what had occurred over the past year since the Michaluk virus struck. Avi has been tasked with making contact with our band of survivors and getting them to Atlanta, to the CDC to try and find out what exactly happened.
There is a lot of mistrust and suspicion and high feeling. Half the group want to return, half refuse.
Things come to a ...more
There is a lot of mistrust and suspicion and high feeling. Half the group want to return, half refuse.
Things come to a ...more

I must admit that I did not find this one nearly as entertaining as the first.
The main problem for me was that I could not get over the reason they went to Atlanta. To me it just didn't make any sense. Here you have a group of people who survive and try to help other survivors but instead of continuing this mission they decide to travel to what is believed to be the mecca of the apocalypse aka Atlanta for the flimsiest of reasons. The moment they made that decision I withdrew a bit. In fact by t ...more
The main problem for me was that I could not get over the reason they went to Atlanta. To me it just didn't make any sense. Here you have a group of people who survive and try to help other survivors but instead of continuing this mission they decide to travel to what is believed to be the mecca of the apocalypse aka Atlanta for the flimsiest of reasons. The moment they made that decision I withdrew a bit. In fact by t ...more

The Becoming: Ground Zero is the sequel to The Becoming, which is an apocalyptic zombie novel set in the American south, and introduces us to Ethan, a Memphis cop, Cade, a former sniper for the Israeli military, and Brandt, a marine who was stationed at the CDC, where the initial viral outbreak occurred after an experiment goes wrong, before he managed to escape while the plague is tearing apart the city.
The first novel explores the relationship between these three characters and some other sur ...more
The first novel explores the relationship between these three characters and some other sur ...more

Just finished my advanced copy (apparently I'm special! lol) of this. Thanks Jessica! I immediately uploaded it to my Nook, only to have my wife steal it away from me so she could read it. I got stuck reading it on my phone any free minute I had the time. We both really enjoyed it, and can't wait for the third book. I don't want to give any spoilers since the book doesn't come out for another month or two but if you liked the first book you'll LOVE this one. A good amount of time has passed sinc
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Huge swaths of violence and extreme language, make this action zombie book an absolute winner in my book. Just brilliant from beginning to end. There are too few female post apocalyptic writers about, and i've been saddened to find, that a lot of the current female writers, contribute absolute rubbish. They have a tendency to write post apocalyptic stories without bad language, which ensures wooden characters, robotic dialogue, and forgettable stories.
Jessica Meigs simply storms this genre, and ...more
Jessica Meigs simply storms this genre, and ...more

Ground Zero begins about a year after the first book ends. Readers are immediately swept into a bit of chaos as the seven person group has an unexpected visitor with an outrageous request. Avi wants Ethan, Cade, Brandt and the rest of the group to take her into Atlanta, Ground Zero for the Michaluk Virus. Brandt has seldom spoke of what he saw there when he fled. He knows the horrors that wait there first hand. The group has formed a solid bond over the past year. For the most part they have a ‘
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You know how sometimes you watch a movie or read a book and then the sequel comes out and you want to see it, yet you don’t want because you often get disappointed? Yeah, forget that feeling when you think about reading The Becoming: Ground Zero Jessica Meigs’ next installment in The Becoming series.
As The Becoming : Ground Zero begins, we learn that nearly a year has past since the end of book one (The Becoming) . While still on edge and always on the lookout for the threat lurking around ever ...more
As The Becoming : Ground Zero begins, we learn that nearly a year has past since the end of book one (The Becoming) . While still on edge and always on the lookout for the threat lurking around ever ...more

This is one of the best zombie books I have ever read. I know that says a lot but I love a good horror story. I devour Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch, and Kealan Patrick Burke like it is going out of style.
Ms. Meigs has created perfection with this novel. After an ending that didn't quite sit well with me in The Becoming, she comes back with perfection. Cade, Brandt, Ethan and Co. are asked by a mysterious stranger to make the journey back to Atlanta but her motives are unclear and they have every r ...more
Ms. Meigs has created perfection with this novel. After an ending that didn't quite sit well with me in The Becoming, she comes back with perfection. Cade, Brandt, Ethan and Co. are asked by a mysterious stranger to make the journey back to Atlanta but her motives are unclear and they have every r ...more

Much of the problems I noticed in the first book popped out at me again in this book. Too many times I found every character smirking. It is an overdone expression in the series. The author did get a bit better at the blowing out a breath phrase, though it often was replaced by 'huffing out a breath'.
The characters were a bit more developed and the story line filled out a bit more, but I was too reminded of Resident Evil as I read along. The story does drag you along so it is not all bad.
The si ...more
The characters were a bit more developed and the story line filled out a bit more, but I was too reminded of Resident Evil as I read along. The story does drag you along so it is not all bad.
The si ...more

The Becoming: Ground Zero is the follow up to Jessica Meig's The Becoming. It's the continued saga of a group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse. I loved The Becoming (if you haven't read it go and get it now ... you won't regret it) and I have been greatly anticipating the follow up. It doesn't disappoint. The group is recruited to go to Atlanta under a ..hmmm... suspicious premise... at least to me. But as always with any group there are dissenting opinions and they finally agree to go. This
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This is an overall review of the series thus far. While I appreciate her general creativity and story telling ability, the immaturity in her writing wore on me. The second book was more difficult for me to finish but I will still read the third because not finishing things makes me anxious...AND...i need to know how it ends... Also, there is an overuse of southern phrases and dialect that come across as forced. Yes, I understand she is from Alabama, but it isnt believable that the educated/world
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I have never written a review but felt I had to after reading this book. The first book was good and I looked forward to reading the second. After reading the second, I can't wait till the third book is published. I finished reading the book about 3 weeks ago and can't get it out of my mind. No matter what book I've picked up since then my anticipation for the third book in the series has not diminished. Please Jessica, keep writing this series, there is nothing out there that compares.

Not as satisfying as the first book, I just didn't believe that this group of survivors would be willing to throw their lives away on a fruitless errand for someone they just met. Otherwise, I liked the development of the character interactions in the wake of the off-screen year that passed between The Becoming and Ground Zero. Looking forward to more context promised in the next book.

Easily a 4 star read! :)

The good news is that the writing has improved. The writer cut down on the repetitive description, which helps the action move along more smoothly. The problem is that, like a lot of zombie fiction, it falls into the Walking Dead trap. With no personal conflict coming from the undead, it's left to the characters to bicker. This is perfectly realistic -- stressed out people forced to live together are going to have more than their share of petty disagreements -- but it's not terribly interesting
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The Becoming series is an excellent zombie-action novel series. It's lighter than softer than the desperate struggles of The Walking Dead but still has plenty of dark moments. At heart, the biggest difference between The Becoming series and other zombie novels is its heroes know what they're doing (for the most part). I think it's one of those rare series which would make a good action movie or video game.
Ground Zero has the premise of our heroes being tracked down by a woman who claims to hav ...more
Ground Zero has the premise of our heroes being tracked down by a woman who claims to hav ...more

The Becoming: Ground Zero is the second book in author Jessica Meigs's ongoing zombie series. In The Becoming, Meigs documented the outbreak of the devastating new "Michaluk virus" and how it brought police officer Ethan Bennett, former IDF sharpshooter Cade Alton and Marine Lieutenant Brandt Evans together (along with some fellow survivors). In Ground Zero, a new character convinces the group to abandon their relative safety and head into the heart of zombie territory - the CDC in Atlanta.
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Unlike the previous installment, The Becoming, it took me a while to get into volume two. Nearly all the characters started out entirely unlikable this time, so even though I’d met them in the previous book, it took me a while to get pulled in this time. I was surprised and a little dismayed that Ethan had become the leader of the group, because a) he didn’t seem a likely leader in the last book, and b) he spends much of this book being an asshole. Apparently there are enough living survivors (e
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As with the first book I like where the story is going but some of the charachters were even more annoying than in the first book. I really had to force myself to finish this book because I hoped that the story would become good enough for me to ignore what annoyed me. But it didn't...
What bugged me as well was that it kept being repeated what a tight-knit group they are but there were plenty of examples to show that they really weren't, like 2 guys that can't stand each other or 1 guy thinking ...more
What bugged me as well was that it kept being repeated what a tight-knit group they are but there were plenty of examples to show that they really weren't, like 2 guys that can't stand each other or 1 guy thinking ...more

I truthfully felt this was a 3.5 book. The author writes strong zombie fiction as evidenced by her first book, which really moved along and hummed.
This second book suffers from taking to long to get to any challenge. A good portion of the book is spent breaking into homes and checking if each of the characters is okay. Lots of wrangling over why they are heading to Atlanta and of all their suffering. I get that this would be on a survivor's mind, but this book touched on it at the expense of mo ...more
This second book suffers from taking to long to get to any challenge. A good portion of the book is spent breaking into homes and checking if each of the characters is okay. Lots of wrangling over why they are heading to Atlanta and of all their suffering. I get that this would be on a survivor's mind, but this book touched on it at the expense of mo ...more

Jessica Meigs's follow up to her debut novel is even better than I'd anticipated. The character development and multiple POV and plot twists keep you at the edge of your seats. Ground Zero is full of heart stopping action, zombie madness, tragedies, romance, sinister plots, secrets and kick ass heroines and everything else you could wish for in a zombie book. This book is turning out to be one of the best zombie books I've read so far.

First read 08-19-2012; want to re-read before picking up #3 "Revelations".
Re-read, all caught up and ready to proceed. Quite the story; pretty interesting if not a little tedious at times. The ending to book two was a surprise although I should have expected it had I been thinking about it. Well, on with book three and the quest for the cure!
Re-read, all caught up and ready to proceed. Quite the story; pretty interesting if not a little tedious at times. The ending to book two was a surprise although I should have expected it had I been thinking about it. Well, on with book three and the quest for the cure!
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Jessica Meigs is the author of The Becoming, a post-apocalyptic thriller series that follows a group of people trying to survive a massive viral outbreak in the southeastern United States. After gaining notoriety for having written the series on a variety of BlackBerry devices, she self-published two novellas that now make up the first book of the series. In April 2011, she accepted a three-book d
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