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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9781560258667
ISBN number: 1560258667
Label: Running Press
Manufacturer: Running Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: September 27, 2006
Publishing house: Running Press
Sale Popularity Level: 44159
Studio: Running Press
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In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret to the Epidemic but she has lost everything — even her name. David Wellington's very first novel, Monster Island, explored a world overcome by horror and the few people strong enough to survive. Now he takes us back in time to where it all began — to the day the dead began to rise.
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The only originality of this book is that it kind of takes us under the skin of a freshly dead woman. Not quite the dumb, mindless walking zombies, she's got a role to play in the newly breaking, fast spreading infection that turns human beings into flesh eaters. She is being led to a special place where she thinks she's got something to do for her own sake -and mankind's.
She is being tracked by a middle-rank Reserve Captain that, although not consciously capable of saying why, wants to get the dead -but not quite zombified- freshly dead young woman.
Difficult to say exactly why this book did not get my full attention throughout the reading, but let's try anyway. The characters are not likable. They are hollow people with no clearly defined personality. Nothing in their behavior or intimate depiction, deserves anything else but a vague attention. The rest of the story leads to some sort of disappointing and highly unrealistic conclusion.
Not enough gore, little underlying message, transparent characters and a lack of overall plot and tempo cohesion altogether turned me down quickly in the reading, having me wish to get to the last page as quickly as possible.
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I got the whole trilogy and read them in order thankfully.
Monster Nation was my favorite of the 3 and dveloped a few interesting characters.
The writing style seemed a bit complex compared to other "undead" based books I have read.
The trilogy one was more in depth and had a supernatural flavor to it. I was looking for a brain-smashing mindless zombie book but this one gave me a different experience. I feel indifferent as it did not satisfy my mindless need for human on zombie violence.
I would definitely read all 3 of the books to get full satisfaction.
If you want brain-bashing go elsewhere but if you want interesting characters and a departure from the norm this is a great book.
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A pretty reasonable zombie book.
Sort of somewhere in the middle of Dawn of the Dead (random people trapped by zombie horde) to World War Z (highly organised and led people trapped by zombie horde.)
This book has a few characters, a US National Guard captain, a government suit, and a girl who gets zombified but is still rational, unlike the others.
There is a strange supernatural rationale for all this, and is what the various people involved are working towards, with, of course, lots of slaughter of zombies and people in the process.
Apparently a prequel type story for an earlier book which I have not seen, but given this, likely to be quite readable, too.
3.5 out of 5
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I am a fan of "13 Bullets" and "99 Coffins" from Wellington. Also really enjoyed "Monster Island". Having said that, this one was a let down. The idea of the book is to take us back to when the Zombie epidemic began. While it had its moments, this book didn't build up. It really slowed down. Zombies with the ability to make themselves invisible? If you read "Monster Island" you might remember the reference to the girl in CA who hooked herself up to an oxygen bar just before dying. Her name is Nilla and we follow her throughout this tale. The ending, I would describe, as a cop-out. I give this 3 stars which means it was ok but don't waste your money. If you really want to read it, snag it from the library. Not sure that I will continue on to "Monster Planet" after this.
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I have now read all three books in this trilogy by David Wellington. The story is ok and I would have given it a three if it stood alone as a zombie novel, however after reading the final book in the trilogy I was so disappointed in the ending I felt as though I had wasted my time in reading any of them. Therefore I decided to give this book only one star because ultimately I felt really deflated and disappointed.
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