Resurrection - Tim Curran

[Kenneth]

The rain kept falling and falling and falling...and like the rain, the story kept going and going and...well, you get the idea. This one ran the gamut with me, good and bad. Resurrection is listed as a Zombie Epic and you better believe it when they say epic. The problem was that it was too epic. You may wonder, "is that even possible?"and the answer is yes. Resurrection needed editing in the worst way. It suffers from a bloated mass of verbiage. If an editor had come along and slashed a good 300 pages from this tome, the story would've been a much tighter and fun read. Now, don't get me wrong. There is some really good stuff in Resurrection, but the reader was constantly assaulted by the same descriptions of the constant rain falling and the smell of the zombies. I bet the reference to something being "putrid" was used at least 50 times. After a while, it begins to feel like you've read it before and you want to scream "I get it! They fucking stunk to high heaven. Now get on with the damn story!!" The other thing that kept becoming a sore spot with Resurrection was all of the grammatical errors. Usually, I'm pretty forgiving for a misspelled word here and awkward sentence structure there. If you've ever read any of my reviews, I can be a little light on the proofreading at times. But, this was so often that it became quite distracting. So, yes, an editor was sorely needed for Resurrection.

OK. Let's get on with the review. In the river valley of a small Wisconsin town, it begins to rain endlessly for days on end. Within this rainy period, there comes a few mysterious showers that are yellow and anyone that gets caught in the dreaded yellow rains gets eaten away and dissolved as if it was pure hydrochloride acid. With the endless torrential rains, the river breaks its banks and the town is flooded. So much so, that the local graveyard, located on a hill, is washed away like a sand castle during high tide. And wouldn't you know it, there's something about the rain that makes all of those people, that have been laid to rest, get up and start coming after the town folks that haven't evacuated the flooded city. Enter our likable heroes, Mitch and Tommy. A couple of regular Joes that you instantly feel like you know. Mitch is looking for his daughter, Chrissy, who went off to the mall and hasn't come home yet. As you can imagine, the shit hits the fan and the zombies start doing what zombies do. But Curran's zombies are a little bit different. There are some that are mindless killers, while others seem to have some intelligence (and speed). Another trait that I liked was that bullets to the head didn't take these guys out, but they discover that salt does. Kinda cool. It also seems that our heroes figure that the explosion at the nearby military base is responsible for all the mayhem. Now it's up to Mitch and Tommy to save the town.

Resurrection has some great ideas inside it. Curran knows how to develop realistic characters that are easily identifiable. Along the way, Resurrection felt quite a bit like the bastard child of Stephen King's It and The Stand. The biological weapon gone wrong and threatening to destroy mankind. Also, the main antagonist was an evil clown that I couldn't help but compare with Pennywise. How could you not? One more thing - the salt. Our heros discover that salt is the key to killing the walking dead, not guns. So, you'd think they'd be smart and use what works. Nope. They kept shooting and blasting away throughout the story even though they knew that guns were pretty much ineffective. Again, I had a hard time not screaming at the pages when I would read this. Use the damn salt, you dumbasses!

So, to paraphrase Dickens, It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. And that's pretty much Resurrection in a nutshell. There's some really good stuff, but oh what it could've been if only there was an editor.

3 putrid corpses out of 5


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[D20]

Haha! Great review. I'll pass on this one.