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I loved his literate, innovative take on vampires in "Let the Right One In," and I like that this novel upends some of the expected conventions of zombie fiction (it was while reading this that I had a conversation with a friend about the "rules of zombies") and focuses more on the complex emotions of people facing their own undead than on racing from the "zombie horde." These zombies are less overtly menacing, but more frightening because they're individualized and real, not cartoon shamblers.
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I expected a straight forward horror story from this book, and I got something much better. The terrifying element of this story is not the undead themselves, or the "reliving" as the government terms them, but instead the cosmology that allowed the dead from two months ago to present to come back from the grave.
I don't want to say too much and spoil this book, but here's some hints: the reliving are not zombies or vampires, out to feed on humans. They also are not the same people that died, not ...more
I don't want to say too much and spoil this book, but here's some hints: the reliving are not zombies or vampires, out to feed on humans. They also are not the same people that died, not ...more
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