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A massive disease wipes out 95% (I think) of the world's population in minutes. Eventually the dead rise and become increasingly aggressive.
It took me a while to get into this book. The pace was pretty slow through most of it and while normally the difference between British English and American English doesn't bother me, for some reason I initially found it very distracting.
I couldn't help but think of Pandemic 2 and how difficult it is to actually wipe out the planet with disease.
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It took me a while to get into this book. The pace was pretty slow through most of it and while normally the difference between British English and American English doesn't bother me, for some reason I initially found it very distracting.
I couldn't help but think of Pandemic 2 and how difficult it is to actually wipe out the planet with disease.
The story d ...more
Interesting book. The story is more about the survivors than the zombies in every sense. There is some speculation about the cause but the book really delves into the characters and their shock, loss and desperation.
An absolutely fantastic zombie novel. Moody adds some new twists to the genre, but stays pretty close to the core zombie cannon. Be prepared to read the three sequels (I think there is a fourth sequel in the works). They increase in scope in a similar way to George A. Romero's classic "...of the Dead" series. This one felt more intimate, with only three main characters. While reading this novel I began asking myself the question, "Why would people in this situation try to survive, instead of jus
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Re-read - originally read Jan 2008
Years ago I found this book as a free download on the web, and I stayed up allllllll night reading it. I found it that engrossing.
I recently checked the whole series out of the library and dug into the first one tonight. And guess what? It's almost 3 am and I finally finished the last page and was able to put it down.
I don't know what it is about this book. The prose is okay, but nothing spectacular. The story line is fairly simple. The characters, while likeabl ...more
Years ago I found this book as a free download on the web, and I stayed up allllllll night reading it. I found it that engrossing.
I recently checked the whole series out of the library and dug into the first one tonight. And guess what? It's almost 3 am and I finally finished the last page and was able to put it down.
I don't know what it is about this book. The prose is okay, but nothing spectacular. The story line is fairly simple. The characters, while likeabl ...more
I read the first half of this book for free online. I will admit that it drove me to not only purchase the entire book, but to purchase the two immediate sequels to it.
Autumn is a different type of zombie novel. These are not your flesh-eating zombies. Oh. They do become aggressive toward the living, but are quite different from the other zombies I've read about in literature and seen in films.
The creative new take on the living dead as well as a few likeable characters and an interesting story ...more
Autumn is a different type of zombie novel. These are not your flesh-eating zombies. Oh. They do become aggressive toward the living, but are quite different from the other zombies I've read about in literature and seen in films.
The creative new take on the living dead as well as a few likeable characters and an interesting story ...more
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