A New Breed of Zombies
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I've been enjoying this zombie series, which is odd for me as I'm definitely not an apocalyptic, zombie reader. I am a fan of Briar's though, so I dove into the first book and have been happily entertained ever since. This 5th book in the series was very good too but I was pretty leery of it for quite a while. I found it very slow to get into as I wanted more zombies and that action didn't take off for a bit of time in this book. Also, I found the prologue unnecessary, very strange and extremely disturbing--which may have been Briar's intention, to set the mood. But then the book starts off kind of lighthearted. After all that though and this crazy new zombie breed shows up, the book never slows down. Like the others in the series, once the action starts you can't be disturbed until you read the final page. Another short installment but very good once the pace picks up. Looking forward to number six.
180479
It is about time zombies from a miltary view. Welll writen likeable characters and a good story I am now hooked to this story and looking forward to next story.
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Yep... ZOMBIES. Zombies. Zombie. Zombies. Did i forget to mention Zombies, Zombie. Zombi. Z. O. M. B. I. E. Check it out, perhaps.
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Dying to Live (Zombie Overload #1)
by C.M. Wright

I am a zombie fan. I read zombie books and I love watching The Walking Dead. I have been meaning to read this book but I hadn't yet gotten to it. I have "seen" C.M. Wright around the book events and she is really nice. So I was excited to read her book.

This book is about ordinary wife and mother Canada who lives in Illinois. I like that Canada is a tough talking, straight up kind of person. This makes her very relatable. I like the writing style. I like that the characters have seen zombie movies and they are shocked but instantly jump into action. She is a mother of two sons, one is 11-years-old and the other is 14-years-old.

The first book is short, scary and exciting. I really liked it a lot. 5 stars.

Fighting To Live (Zombie Overload #2)
by C.M. Wright

This book takes off right where the first one left off. Canada and her family are on the run from the zombies. I really like the fast paced, straight forward writing style. I like this character. She is tough and sarcastic. Canada's group meets a man who laughs at their weapons of knives and swords. I personally think that knives and swords would be better weapons than guns. A shotgun is heavy to lug around and to carry when running away and then what happens when you run out of bullets? Then you have a heavy stick to lug around while running away from zombies. Also, guns are loud. If we have learned anything by the Walking Dead, loud noises attract zombies. I personally think the perfect weapon to take on zombies would be a light weight baseball bat. It is portable, lightweight, effective and you don't have to worry about running out of ammo. What I love the most about Canada is that she is so calm. She suggests tying an injured party to the top of the van like it is nothing.

Like I said, I read a lot of zombie books and I love the Walking Dead graphic novel and t.v show. There are a few very important zombie rules that I feel I have picked up from my reading. One, to kill a zombie aim for the head. Two, stay off the roads. Three, get out of the cities. As I was reading this book, I may have been yelling a bit at Canada.  This book is so exciting that I was torn between not reading it because I was so sure that the characters were being stupid and were going to die and reading it to find out what was going to happen and if the characters would live. I really wanted them to live. I was so nervous for them! I also like that CM Wright talks about the practical stuff like how awkward it is for women to pee on the ground. And I love how Canada protects her children because I would be the same way. "You just don't piss off a mom by hurting and scaring her babies!" These books are so good and they end on a cliffhanger. I am so excited to start book 3. Once I finish the third book, I am going to be so sad since I don't already have the fourth book. Love the zombie queen. 5 stars.
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Once Upon a Zombie- Billy Phillips and Jenny Nissenson

 I was hesitant on this book from day 1. The cover bordered on childish and the use of Zombies in the title led me to believe it would either be extremely corny or so gruesome that I wouldnt want to read it. The description actually is what drew me in. I told myself, its a free ARC so whats the harm? I knew if I didn't like it, I could toss it without losing any money.
 I am happy to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the novel. The take on zombies was a refreshing change of pace from the current trends. The author managed to retain the humanity of some of the worlds favorite storybook characters, despite their unfortunate zombiefication.  The characters are likeable, even the Wonder Girl and the zombies.
 The one complaint I have is that Caitlyns panic attacks are distracting at the beginning. They are to frequent to be believable.  While I understand there are plenty of people in the world who suffer from debilitating attacks just a frequently, the amount of them in such a short stretch of story interrupts the flow and pulls the reader out of the imaginative world the author does such a good job of creating. Later in the story as Caitlyn learns to cope with her fear and anxiety is become more enmeshed in the story rather than an abrupt interruption.
 All in all, I look forward to the second book in the series and hope I am given the opportunity to read it. I believe this can turn into a great, imaginative series that manages to break the mold of brain-dead, no personality, zombies and instead finds humor and whimsy in an otherwise dead subject (ba-dum-ching).
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What a cool new take on Zombies, or zombie type human monsters!  NYPD officer Moon gets up close and personal with these monsters, and somehow manages to stay alive!  Matthew James has another exciting series started and I can't wait to read more!
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Really enjoyed this book. A great new take on zombies, instead of being the typical clumsy walkers, this story gives us fast hulking monsters. These creatures make regular walkers look tame by comparison.
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This self-published debut by Benjamin Cain is set to enrich and horrify any fans of the genre in this first of an epic zombie masterwork. Longtime blogger and recovering academic, the author has poured this background into portraying a possible real-life epidemic, one where undead cannibals are unleashed by the work of a single madman - evoking in its way the tension and drama of Herbert's The White Plague.

In the zombie apocalypse, people stand together. Before they're chewed apart. All must come to terms with the human-less future. Some adapt with an ease that will make empires of the undead. Others take to worshiping the famous among them.

Only a few stand together to preserve something that might be called honour, though it might be called zombie food.

If zombie fiction didn't have an ASOIAF or Second Apocalypse, this debut will clearly leave its mark on the genre. The author is turning strictly carnal entertainment into something that can still retain its philosophic voice and contemporary human commentary.

Be terrified and appalled.

For the walking undead are among us...

And God Decays.
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"Plague of the Dead," the first book in the Morningstar Strain trilogy, is more fun than a barrel full of pus- and gut-filled zombies.

The epidemic starts out in Africa and is soon all over the world.  Army General Sherman and a small contingent of soldiers and civilians, have their hands full, fighting off a wave of zombies at the Suez Canal.

No one wants to believe the doom and gloom predictions of Dr. Anna Demilio, USAMRIID, until it is far too late.

General Sherman and a small group of survivors catch a ride on the naval ship USS Ramage back to the Pacific Northwest of the United States and all parties head inland, trying to meet up and figure out how to stay alive.

Zombies, zombies and more zombies - and uninfected humans worse than the zombies!  I can hardly wait for book two of the trilogy&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Thunder-and-Ashes/dp/1439198837/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Thunder and Ashes</a>.
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Usually zombies genre is not my cup off tea. But I got RecruitZ and start to read it fearing horror disgusting scenes. The fast-paced and action-packed book, just draw me in. So In short:

They had been told that their world was once again safe from the creatures that were destroying their world, they tried to return to normal sure that a vaccine they got will protect them. In fact, rouge Zombies were still out there, lurking, waiting and trying to attack. In the afterworld, zombies have decimated the population and change all life as it once was. And yetevery one attempted to revive normalcy; they are going back to college, fixing their homes up, spending their survivor bonuses from the government, and getting married, and so on.

But when Rebbecca's husband, Gavin, was murdered right in front of her eyes by Zombies creatures, She knew that in this attack something was not right. Those zombies didn't attack her, their only target was her beloved husband.

But No one believes her story of what happened at that fateful horrific day when her husband was murdered. Even her best friends thought, that she must be suffer from the horrific event. They all thought that she's losing it.

Is Something, or someone behind these zombie attacks? she's determined to find out! She's on the hunt for answers, and there's no one will stop her, even if it means alienating herself from her friends.

Along the way she meets Preston, who in turn helps her in her search of answers. What they find is beyond anything they could ever imagine. Zombies clones that trained to fight and kill. The people in this afterworld are pitting them against each other in the ring and some people are even using them for their own nefarious purpose.

The link between Rebbecca's husband,and Preston's sister deaths is that they are scientist who work at the same Lab. The first mission of these new zombies was to kill the scientists who were trying to find a cure to the disease that made the zombie in the first place.

I could say so much more but I don't want to give anything away! And it is worth the gamble if you don't typically read from this genre!!
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I loved this book! Action packed with a great story line. Actually two story lines the zombie apocalypse and a serial killer. There are strong female characters and more good people than bad coming together to survive the apocalypse. Also a plus for me as a dog lover is there are dogs that don't become just distractions or food for the zombies but actually help and are a part of the story. And the author came up with some new creative ways to kill zombies! :)
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This novel is short and sweet and spooky.  Different point of views ties  these soon to be zombies together showing a glimpse of who they use to be.
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A great read for anyone into zombies and vampires, but by no means the generic vampire/zombie fiction we have seen of late.  A fresh look at a world taken over by the living dead.
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'Fiend' by Peter Stenson is not your typical zombie tale. In fact when reading it I found it more of a social commentary on the life of a hard core addict. I have had many people in my life who were and are addicts. In this book the characters are addicted to Meth, but I have dealt with people with cocaine, meth, heroin, pills, alcohol and more. The substance the person is addicted only slightly changes the addictive personality and behavior.

In 'Fiend', a zombie outbreak occurs, most of the world is in shambles and the survivors are fending for themselves. The main characters are meth addicts, and true to the form of a junkie, the only thing that REALLY matters to them is the daily routine they live by: find or steal money for drugs, locate someone selling them, purchase drugs, consume drugs, and start over from the beginning over and over every day in an endless loop. Peter Stenson quite accurately shows how even in a zombie outbreak this routine is still top priority. The zombies are just another obstacle in their daily quest for a fix. To them the zombies are like the police, something that interferes with their drug use and therefore needs to be avoided.

The main goal of the characters is to find a place where they can be away from the world, not be bothered and have a constant and steady supply of drugs so they can get high every day. This is the same goal they had before the dead rose. The fact that they have to avoid zombies eating them instead of police arresting them is just something they adapt to in the never ending search for the next fix.

Now the book is very good in other ways. The zombies are really well done, the fact that they giggle adds a new level of creepiness that is really a great idea by the author. The idea of a rotting corpse coming at you, a horrifying sight and situation as it is, but having it giggle as it approaches really adds to the level of just how disturbing this would be. There is plenty of zombie gore to satisfy the reader and quite a few scenes of high level tension. Well written sequences are common through the book. Make no mistake, this is a dark and bleak book, but that is part of its strength.

The thing is, these main characters and the others they run into are not the type of people you really feel a strong bond with. The idea that meth junkies would be the survivors of a zombie apocalypse is not a comforting concept. But Stenson is not writing a feel good book. He is however writing a very powerful and very accurate book of how even the rising of the dead does not change the needs of a junkie, and the destruction of society means nothing to them either, because they dropped out of the regular world due to their addictions long ago.

This is a really good book on many levels. One could read it as just a straight forward zombie tale and be pleased with it as it delivers that very well. But also, one can go one step deeper and see the other elements the author added to the story and enjoy how quite deftly he wove them into the storyline.

One of the better books I read in a while.
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This isn't your normal zombies against the few remaining unaffected humans tale which may disappoint some, but at the same time may be refreshing for others.  It doesn't have the high level of action, senseless killing of the undead, survivor cults, armed gangs controlling the supermarkets and streets and the other staples you come to expect with the zombie genre, I can understand why some people who want to reread those things over and over again don't like Autumn. I'd previously read David Moody's Haters series which is brilliant if you haven't checked it out yet.  That series even though it doesn't have zombies or the undead in it all, is often mistakenly categorised as zombie novels, but what I found interesting when that series is compared to the first book in the Autumn series, is that Haters has more typical elements of a zombie novel than this one does.

There's some brief spoilers in the following.  I liked how in this one the survivors have no idea what is going on in relation to what wiped out their families, friends and 99% of the population. Also like in real life they really have no idea what they should or need to be doing. I liked how the dead didn't rise straight away but instead go through stages of becoming animated.  I liked how they weren't really a threat to humans being as how deteriorated and slow there movements are, as a corpse would be if this ever happened in reality.  That they are even when able to walk, still decomposing and full of maggots also adds to the authenticity. Although being that they are so easy to fend off does make you wonder why the three main characters are so scared of them down the track. If a motorbike can crash through them and not come off balance why not just plow over all the ones in the vicinity in your 4WD until they are not a threat?  Also living on a boat in deep enough water so the zombies can't get close never occurs to any of the three.

What I think holds the story back a little from being as good as the Haters books is that the three main characters aren't very likeable or interesting.  I also had trouble distinguishing for the first half of the book between Michael and Carl since they were pretty similar and remembering which one had the family and kid.  Emma is pretty much just like a bit of furniture in the room, she doesn't do anything.  If her age was revealed at the start, when there were more characters, I didn't remember it, but I pictured her as an old woman from an era where she does whatever the alpha male tells her, and blindly follows whatever he says not understanding why and getting angry at everyone else who isn't towing the line. Also she was supposed to be studying something in the medical field but was disturbed when asked to do anything in this area, even as simple as gather medical pills and supplies.  Maybe if she was younger her age could have added a bit of tension between the male characters who both might have wanted to sleep with her down the track (neither seems to have any desires in that direction).  With all three character leaving the teenage girl behind in an environment where she is likely to be killed also made them a bit unlikeable in my eyes.  If they had forced her for her own good to join them she would have had a lot to add to the storyline once she had calmed down and maybe fastly matured in the real zombie filled world.

Autumn does hook you into this version of a zombie filled world.  I'll definitely check out Autumn: The City and the following books in this series, where hopefully a few more interesting characters join the living.
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I really enjoyed this new zombie tale. It is a completely different look at exactly what zombies are. It's also a great story, with well thought out characters and an excellent story line. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed!
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The zombie subgenre has really taken off in the last ten years. Personally, I thought it would have died five years ago, but today it's still running strong. The zombie is like the vampire. Both creatures are undead, and yet we love them. We love them so much that it might take another ten years before we finally get bored of them, if ever.

Fifteen years ago, zombie literature was scarce. Today it's everywhere. This brings me to Gerald Rice and his short gem of a novella, Fleshbags. The title of this book itself reeks of the undead, and what Gerald has managed to do with this story is not revolutionize the zombie market so much as help it evolve. His undead creatures are a different beast from your typical zombie, and it is really welcoming.

What I liked most about Fleshbags, however, were the interesting characters that populate the story. Loman is on a mission to get to his daughter from school and save her from the sudden outbreak that makes people strip naked and their stomachs to look like translucent sacks filled rotting organ tissue. Along the way he teams up with a person who wears all leather and a motorcycle helmet, the latter of which he/she never takes off. Ms. Mila is a teacher at Loman's daughter's school who hates the children she teaches. Bill and his wife, Sarah, notice that Mr. Anders is home early from work, which he never is, and that there seems to be something wrong with him. When Bill goes over to investigate, he finds much more than a sick man.

I once had a conversation with a friend about how zombies can be used for any metaphor the writer chooses, and Gerald Rice does a marvelous job of doing so in Fleshbags. The story, I thought at least, is about the dark things we store and lock away. Beneath the skin of every individual, there is something darker, perhaps even dangerous, lurking. There's a secret behind every locked door you pass ignorantly by every day. Not only has Gerald created his own zombie, but he put them in a setting that was easy to believe, amongst humans, everyday people we all know, love and hate.

My biggest criticism is that this is a novella with a large cast. It was difficult at first to remember who was who and what they were doing, but once I caught on, it was one hell of a ride. I also would have liked it if some of the subplots were smoothed out more. But don't let these things deter you from what is very much a fun read. If you like zombies and the zombie subgenre, then I invite you to give Fleshbags a try. Do so, and you just might meet some interesting people.