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I read the very first book and found it juvenile; the second was slightly better. It would pass as a fair graphic arts book. By the way, vehicles would be ruined running on plane fuel. If you want a real good zombie story, minus the hooha and mega testosterone flush, check out Brian Keene , now thats good zombie reading.
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I've had some free time on my hands so I've been catching up on leaving some reviews. I read this book a little after it came out.
It was good. I wished there were more zombies in it but as a character driven story it was great. Anytime you can be with decent characters for more than one book its always fun.
And I have to comment on the African, Suez thing, something about East and West.
Who Cares?
Its a book about the walking dead, the entire book is make believe. the key to enjoying a good book is to not take the work too seriously.
When you look for fault, you will inevitably find it, so knock it off you guys out there and relax and read the book, and if you don't like what your reading, then write your own book and put exactly what you want in it and then come back and wait for all the small-minded people to start picking your passion apart like a weeping sore on a leper.
And if anyone ever reads my reviews, there will never be a bad one because If I didn't like it I will keep my opinion to myself.
Positive is good, people, negative is bad. One person's trash is another one's treasure and books fall into that category.
I'm not talking about the truly horendous books either, I mean the ones that are basically literature.
In conclusion, this was a good book and I am looking forward to part 3. J.H.
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I read the very first zombie book by Recht, The Morningstar Strain, and thought it was OK by the standards of the genre. I ordered this sequel when it came out and tried to read it a few weeks ago. I know I'll probably get slammed for writing a negative review, but I the story-telling tension in the very first book just isn't here. I actually enjoyed the very first book: it dealt with the very first outbreaks of the disease in Africa, how it swept the continent and spread throughout the world, and told an engaging story of a group that battled the outbreak as they tried to contain it Africa at the Suez Canal, lost, and then had to flee by ship across the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific to get back to the West Coast of the US. The panic, confusion, combat, the losses, the outbreaks on their ship, their interesting stops in the Phillipines, and then what they find when they get to Oregon was all a pretty decent story.
In this sequel though the magic is gone. The few survivors are trucking across the country but the author depicts an empty country....where are all the corpses, the highways choked with vehicles and zombies? The survivors are also pretty stupid and careless. In one early scene a guy walks into the men's room without clearing the room very first and gets bitten. After all these people went through from Africa to Colorado I just don't think they would be making such stupid mistakes.
Anyway, much as I wanted to like this book as much as the very first one I simply didn't. The storyline was less interesting, the characters were not as intelligent, and I couldn't buy into the depiction of the US. If you like zombie fiction I'd recommend World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel), or Dead City. I liked those books a lot better. Or, even better, pick up Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler. That one will blow your boots off even if it isn't technically a zombie book.
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This book was every bit as good as the first. The author is a great guy too. He let me mail him a copy to personally autograph for my mom's birthday. My mom read it then my two brothers. We are all waiting for the third in the trilogy.
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A very good sequel to a very good book
i must say i did not put it down from sundown to sun up
i didnt even realize that i had read the book all night till my alarm went off
full of great adventures and action sequences that will just grab and force you to find out what happens next
im looking forward to the subsequent on