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Hunter of the Dead
Eighteen-year-old Eden Rosenberg knows how to kill and she's damn good at it. Until recently, her life was pretty easy--get a call from her team's mysterious employer, jet off to a new location, kill some zombies. But the most recent call is different from the others. Instead of being an isolated incident in the middle of nowhere, it's an entire village at risk. By the time the team shows up, the village is empty, leaving only a handful of infected wandering the streets. Or so it seems until they're ambushed by far too many zombies for their five-person team to deal with. On the run and trapped within the valley, Eden is separated from her team when she tries to save a little girl from the inevitable fate of the bitten. To make matters worse, she's forced to rely on Alejandro, the one man she swore never to trust again, to watch her back. She hasn't seen him since he walked away from the team--from her--a year ago and she's not even sure what he's doing in the valley in the first place As Eden races to reunite with her team, she'll have to deal with a homicidal priest who's more than what he seems and a group of survivors she's pretty sure are too stupid to live. But things are more complicated than she realized and soon Eden's forced to confront the truth about the infection; it isn't an accident and those responsible will do anything to ensure no one gets out of the valley alive.
204 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2012
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Katee Robert
160 books37k followersKatee Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of spicy romance. Entertainment Weekly calls her writing “unspeakably hot.” Her books have sold over two million copies. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, children, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, and two Great Danes who think they’re lap dogs.
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September 15, 2012
Killer fast action read. I do want more of Eden and what she will do next with the information she has! She is not one to lay down and roll over, no she's a fighter.
*****FULL REVIEW*****
Eden and her team just finished their assignment in Costa Rica. The jungle is making Eden restless and melancholy missing the man who took off on her in a jungle and missing her father who made her feel safe before killed by a mugger. Frustrated as her sister wants a normal life for Eden but Eden likes this life, of hunting and killing the infected, or zombies. Shocked to receive a new call for a new assignment, Eden is excited to keep going and the team goes to Peru. This case of zombie infection feels odd to Eden. A town of two hundred is where it's starting, usually starts out in no where and comes to town for food. As Eden, Jordan, Kaede, Taro, and Oz get into this assignment, things don't add up right. The team gets in to deep with the mass number of zombies this time even losing one of their own. They end up trapped here, more and more seeming on purpose and way to many infected for their liking. But, the one they pick up again could spar lots of questions of their system on getting the assignments and the infection itself. Edens weakness, little kids, brings Eden question the infection and saving people when she saves a little girl, that brings up her history, just to learn the little girl is infected and Eden does everything she can to try to save and still have her turn. Being separated and trapped with the only entrance/exit to the valley blown shut Eden decides to seek revenge on the person behind killing her team.
We start right off with shooting zombies. Seems zombies are becoming more and more lately for Eden and her sisters team. A job they are good at. Great action and movement in the story with the zombies. Eden is a sniper on the team. Her sister won't let her come down into the thick of the action on the front line with zombies. Eden thinks it's that Jordan doesn't think she's ready, but part of me thinks it's a safety thing, along with being an amazing sniper. Eden is one tough determined girl! She's eighteen and started cleaning up the infected at fourteen, but traveled with her hunter father for many years prior. She doesn't take kindly to being approached wrong in a bar, puts that man in his place. She doesn't like being touched, and reacts to it.
The assignments are mysterious. No one knows who the employer is. Jordan gets a call and she calls the team together, they go, and supplies and a map when get off the plane are waiting. Almost a Charlies Angels take on the employer. And I'm more curious about this employer now. I can't wait for the next book to learn more!
Eden lives in a different reality and world where life can end at any time in her profession. This is a YA read, sixteen plus. Eden is eighteen and she drinks ~ tequila, and had sex ~ only once, but she remembers that the man left her right after, a year ago and not seen or heard of since. What needs to be remembered, Eden lives in a different reality. One where zombies exist and she kills them and could die at any moment on an assignment. In these countries, drinking alcohol at this age is okay. But the man (as he's only a few years older than her) does come back and claim to never leave her again. Eden shows great strength in resisting him and doing the "right thing" in the end. There is great potential here for a strong relationship to grow, and I want to see that.
Okay, so...this is a zombie read. And as many of you know, I don't do zombies. Well... I LOVED this one! It's a hunt, we are going in knowing we are going to find infected, and plan to kill them. This I can handle. And do with great ease. There is a growing mystery here, and as the story goes.
I LOVE Eden, she's strong, smart and takes action. I'm curious about where next we will go and learn with the employer and what Alejandro knows and has to share. Oh so much to come! I CAN NOT WAIT!!
Did I mention how much I loved this book? ;)
I say go get this one, for YA and Adults alike, you will enjoy it!
*****FULL REVIEW*****
Eden and her team just finished their assignment in Costa Rica. The jungle is making Eden restless and melancholy missing the man who took off on her in a jungle and missing her father who made her feel safe before killed by a mugger. Frustrated as her sister wants a normal life for Eden but Eden likes this life, of hunting and killing the infected, or zombies. Shocked to receive a new call for a new assignment, Eden is excited to keep going and the team goes to Peru. This case of zombie infection feels odd to Eden. A town of two hundred is where it's starting, usually starts out in no where and comes to town for food. As Eden, Jordan, Kaede, Taro, and Oz get into this assignment, things don't add up right. The team gets in to deep with the mass number of zombies this time even losing one of their own. They end up trapped here, more and more seeming on purpose and way to many infected for their liking. But, the one they pick up again could spar lots of questions of their system on getting the assignments and the infection itself. Edens weakness, little kids, brings Eden question the infection and saving people when she saves a little girl, that brings up her history, just to learn the little girl is infected and Eden does everything she can to try to save and still have her turn. Being separated and trapped with the only entrance/exit to the valley blown shut Eden decides to seek revenge on the person behind killing her team.
We start right off with shooting zombies. Seems zombies are becoming more and more lately for Eden and her sisters team. A job they are good at. Great action and movement in the story with the zombies. Eden is a sniper on the team. Her sister won't let her come down into the thick of the action on the front line with zombies. Eden thinks it's that Jordan doesn't think she's ready, but part of me thinks it's a safety thing, along with being an amazing sniper. Eden is one tough determined girl! She's eighteen and started cleaning up the infected at fourteen, but traveled with her hunter father for many years prior. She doesn't take kindly to being approached wrong in a bar, puts that man in his place. She doesn't like being touched, and reacts to it.
The assignments are mysterious. No one knows who the employer is. Jordan gets a call and she calls the team together, they go, and supplies and a map when get off the plane are waiting. Almost a Charlies Angels take on the employer. And I'm more curious about this employer now. I can't wait for the next book to learn more!
Eden lives in a different reality and world where life can end at any time in her profession. This is a YA read, sixteen plus. Eden is eighteen and she drinks ~ tequila, and had sex ~ only once, but she remembers that the man left her right after, a year ago and not seen or heard of since. What needs to be remembered, Eden lives in a different reality. One where zombies exist and she kills them and could die at any moment on an assignment. In these countries, drinking alcohol at this age is okay. But the man (as he's only a few years older than her) does come back and claim to never leave her again. Eden shows great strength in resisting him and doing the "right thing" in the end. There is great potential here for a strong relationship to grow, and I want to see that.
Okay, so...this is a zombie read. And as many of you know, I don't do zombies. Well... I LOVED this one! It's a hunt, we are going in knowing we are going to find infected, and plan to kill them. This I can handle. And do with great ease. There is a growing mystery here, and as the story goes.
I LOVE Eden, she's strong, smart and takes action. I'm curious about where next we will go and learn with the employer and what Alejandro knows and has to share. Oh so much to come! I CAN NOT WAIT!!
Did I mention how much I loved this book? ;)
I say go get this one, for YA and Adults alike, you will enjoy it!
March 19, 2013
Wow. Intense reading, right here.
Eden is a sharp-shooter in a family of black ops specialists who travel to remote locations with zombie outbreaks with a simple mission: kill them all.
At the start of the story, the mysterious client funding their search and destroy operations alerts Eden's older sister and team leader, Jordan, that they're needed in the jungles of Peru. The other team members -- twins Kaede and Tao, who are scary lethal, and Oz, a brash ex-army honcho -- expect danger since it's par for the course in their line of work... but this time, they find themselves facing more zombies than should be there, given the small population of the village. An explosion changes the situation on the ground, literally. Add in rock climbing without ropes and a river with swift, deadly currents and you've got fast-paced, heart-pounding action that never lets up. The zombies could grab you from out of the shadows anytime.
Robert adds in some raw emotional damage, too: Jordan and Eden still grieve the loss of their father, and Eden is also nursing some serious trust issues after her lover Alejandro took off as fast as he could after a passionate night, the first and last. She was seventeen at the time.
The not-quite-love story was rather shapeless and unconvincing, for me. On the one hand, small wonder: who has time to work through old grievances in the midst of the freaking zombie apocalypse? But on the other, this is pitched as a key emotional element of Eden's dangerous plight. She's much older than eighteen in terms of the hardship and responsibility she's endured, but at the same time she has yet to mature emotionally into a heroine who can stand on even footing with a twenty-three year old hunk. Eden's still daddy's girl, squabbling with her older sister, sulking with self-aware insecurity when she compares herself to others on her team, and venting teenage angst when they try to protect her. All age appropriate, but not a comfortable match with Alejandro. She's a YA heroine; her crush, I mean, love interest belongs in an adult urban fantasy.
But this is a relatively small quibble since there isn't much time for romance, in any case. Eden definitely kicks ass, and the book is a real treat, with deliciously over the top scenarios and the most evil villains I've seen in a long time. Mark this one to-read!
Eden is a sharp-shooter in a family of black ops specialists who travel to remote locations with zombie outbreaks with a simple mission: kill them all.
At the start of the story, the mysterious client funding their search and destroy operations alerts Eden's older sister and team leader, Jordan, that they're needed in the jungles of Peru. The other team members -- twins Kaede and Tao, who are scary lethal, and Oz, a brash ex-army honcho -- expect danger since it's par for the course in their line of work... but this time, they find themselves facing more zombies than should be there, given the small population of the village. An explosion changes the situation on the ground, literally. Add in rock climbing without ropes and a river with swift, deadly currents and you've got fast-paced, heart-pounding action that never lets up. The zombies could grab you from out of the shadows anytime.
Robert adds in some raw emotional damage, too: Jordan and Eden still grieve the loss of their father, and Eden is also nursing some serious trust issues after her lover Alejandro took off as fast as he could after a passionate night, the first and last. She was seventeen at the time.
The not-quite-love story was rather shapeless and unconvincing, for me. On the one hand, small wonder: who has time to work through old grievances in the midst of the freaking zombie apocalypse? But on the other, this is pitched as a key emotional element of Eden's dangerous plight. She's much older than eighteen in terms of the hardship and responsibility she's endured, but at the same time she has yet to mature emotionally into a heroine who can stand on even footing with a twenty-three year old hunk. Eden's still daddy's girl, squabbling with her older sister, sulking with self-aware insecurity when she compares herself to others on her team, and venting teenage angst when they try to protect her. All age appropriate, but not a comfortable match with Alejandro. She's a YA heroine; her crush, I mean, love interest belongs in an adult urban fantasy.
But this is a relatively small quibble since there isn't much time for romance, in any case. Eden definitely kicks ass, and the book is a real treat, with deliciously over the top scenarios and the most evil villains I've seen in a long time. Mark this one to-read!
July 2, 2015
I was so excited to read this book. I've been searching for a copy for ages. So I was a little disappointed with it when I first started reading. Eden was a bratty and annoying main character. I always hate those characters who are always refusing help or resenting being protected, constantly stating "I can take care of myself", in a moody way. I wanted to see this amazing bond between teammates, and see them be protective of their youngest member. But I don't think the author took advantage of that part of the story because we didn't get much of a team bond. A sister bond maybe. So I was a bit saddened by this. Then we had a dramatic YA relationship already formed before the book even begins.
However, the more I read the better it got. Alejandro was actually a likeable enough character and I did think him and Eden were cute. It's terribly frustrating though that we never get a definitive answer about why he left. The action and drama was great and it had some really sad deaths. It was interesting and it kept me captivated. So it wasn't a perfect book, but I'll give it a solid 4 stars. I do think a 2nd book would be great, but I highly doubt we'll get one.
However, the more I read the better it got. Alejandro was actually a likeable enough character and I did think him and Eden were cute. It's terribly frustrating though that we never get a definitive answer about why he left. The action and drama was great and it had some really sad deaths. It was interesting and it kept me captivated. So it wasn't a perfect book, but I'll give it a solid 4 stars. I do think a 2nd book would be great, but I highly doubt we'll get one.
January 16, 2023
Excellent book!!!
November 22, 2012
So awesome!! I love anything zombie!! I really hope there a sequel!!
December 30, 2012
This book was really good. I was skeptic at first since it was about zombies, but this book proved me wrong. I hope they make a series out of this book. I want to know what happens next.
April 30, 2013
This was a great book about Zombies. A real fast read that you won't want to put down. Enjoyed it until the end. Hope another one is one the way
December 30, 2013
Fantastic....... Hurry up with number 2 please : )
January 2, 2015
Solid 3. Wow, loved this fast paved zombie read.
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