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Death was never the end...
With the fragile balance between zombies and the living shattered by an artificial plague, life has only gotten harder for those still walking. While the undead no longer threaten mankind, there are almost no humans left to terrorize: the world belongs to mutation-riddled beings, so-called "exes" that are stronger, faster, and crueler than any human or zombie. For a group of survivors, staying one step ahead of death seems impossible.
Because Death himself has had enough. Cheated of his rightful prizes and taunted by scientists and survivors alike, Death is determined to end it all - permanently.
But even Death has a price.
If you're willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Don't miss the explosive conclusion to Joan Frances Turner's stunning Resurgam Trilogy!
With the fragile balance between zombies and the living shattered by an artificial plague, life has only gotten harder for those still walking. While the undead no longer threaten mankind, there are almost no humans left to terrorize: the world belongs to mutation-riddled beings, so-called "exes" that are stronger, faster, and crueler than any human or zombie. For a group of survivors, staying one step ahead of death seems impossible.
Because Death himself has had enough. Cheated of his rightful prizes and taunted by scientists and survivors alike, Death is determined to end it all - permanently.
But even Death has a price.
If you're willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Don't miss the explosive conclusion to Joan Frances Turner's stunning Resurgam Trilogy!
382 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 2, 2014
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About the author
Joan Frances Turner
8 books30 followersJoan Frances Turner is the author of Dust, forthcoming from Ace Books on September 7, 2010. Dust is a story of the undead from their own point of view, as they battle time, decay, the loved ones they left behind, encroaching humanity and each other. Or, think Watership Down with zombies instead of rabbits. She is currently working on a sequel, tentatively titled Frail, from the all-important human perspective.
Joan was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana, which fellow Region Rat Jean Shepherd famously said “clings precariously to the underbody of Chicago like a barnacle clings to the rotting hulk of a tramp steamer.” Like Mr. Shepherd, she aspires someday to have a local community center named after her against her will. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, she lives near the beach with her family and a garden full of spring onions and tiger lilies, weather permitting.
Joan is represented by Michelle Brower of Folio Literary Management. Dust is her first novel.
(from author's website)
Joan was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana, which fellow Region Rat Jean Shepherd famously said “clings precariously to the underbody of Chicago like a barnacle clings to the rotting hulk of a tramp steamer.” Like Mr. Shepherd, she aspires someday to have a local community center named after her against her will. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, she lives near the beach with her family and a garden full of spring onions and tiger lilies, weather permitting.
Joan is represented by Michelle Brower of Folio Literary Management. Dust is her first novel.
(from author's website)
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February 24, 2014
This third and final installment in Joan Frances Turner's Resurgam Trilogy brings together the characters from both Dust and Frail. Jessie, Linc, and Renee are still living in their cabin community in the woods and reluctant to have any dealings with the hoos. Their hand is forced, however, when Jessie's sister, Lisa, returns with a group of them in tow. Amy and her hellhound, Nick, Lucy, Stephen, Lisa, and Naomi narrowly escaped the research facility Natalie called home. They've been on the run ever since constantly looking over their shoulder in the knowledge that Death or the creepy Scissor Man might be on their trail. It seems Death is unhappy about the current state of things - you know, no one really dying - and is ready do something about it.
As much as I'd been looking forward to this wrap up of the trilogy and the meeting of all the characters in question, I found that the long passage of time between the second book and this installment was a bit of a detriment to my reading.
I'd read Dust and Frail almost back to back in 2011 and - as is often the case - didn't have a chance to squeeze in a re read before Grave, the release of which did come as a bit of a surprise with my only finding out about it in December or so.
There is nothing wrong with Grave and given my enjoyment of both Dust and Frail I do highly recommend the trilogy as a whole to fans of zombie fiction, especially fans of zombie fiction with a unique twist. Given the chance I would love to go back and re read the first two books so that I can experience the trilogy together. I feel the time lapse sadly left me disconnected from the characters as a whole and unable to regain any semblance of that connection in spite of my desperately trying to do so.
As much as I'd been looking forward to this wrap up of the trilogy and the meeting of all the characters in question, I found that the long passage of time between the second book and this installment was a bit of a detriment to my reading.
I'd read Dust and Frail almost back to back in 2011 and - as is often the case - didn't have a chance to squeeze in a re read before Grave, the release of which did come as a bit of a surprise with my only finding out about it in December or so.
There is nothing wrong with Grave and given my enjoyment of both Dust and Frail I do highly recommend the trilogy as a whole to fans of zombie fiction, especially fans of zombie fiction with a unique twist. Given the chance I would love to go back and re read the first two books so that I can experience the trilogy together. I feel the time lapse sadly left me disconnected from the characters as a whole and unable to regain any semblance of that connection in spite of my desperately trying to do so.
September 1, 2014
Once I got far enough into this to refresh my memory about what had happened in the previous two books, I couldn't put it down. You wouldn't think that a zombie trilogy would evolve into a poetic and deeply moving meditation on the nature of death, but that's what Grave became; the end was sad yet uplifting and incredibly satisfying at the same time.
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