Ken is a grieving, gone
to seed, ex-cop widow. Jason is a fresh out of jail convict who happens to help
Juanita whilst she is being attacked. Rose is a freshly divorced dog lover. Stupid (or Baily), Imp and Circe are the
lovable dogs along for the ride.
This is the start of the
zompoc, the start of the DEAD series (now on book 10) right back at the beginning
with a huge bang.
Their stories quickly
intertwine in the town of Portland, Oregon as the zombies pop back from the
dead.
There is lots of gore in
this book, lots of shooting, lots of heart break, some humour but always great
writing and deep character building, TWB does his best to make you care for
these people so you are also immersed in the story.
I was so upset when a
certain above character died but even more devastated when a second character
dies trying to save them. Yes, lots of people die in these books, it’s sad but
as TWB often states no character is safe.
Zombies are never the all-out
reason for the demise of humans, we manage that on our own, we just need the
nudge and TWB paints a very frightening picture.
He deftly uses his DEAD
series to highlight small towns and cities and I am delighted that he plans
many more of these, promising anyone who writes to him with details of their
town, friends and loved ones he will place into the zompoc and annihilate your
town for you!
I really enjoyed the
differing views of the same scene from various characters but did not enjoy the
dogs PoV, it felt stilted and very anthropomorphised, more
like how we would LIKE our animals to think of us not how they actually do.
I was also a bit
concerned that the animals on the farm and the veggies they were originally
growing seemed to disappear.
Whilst the ending was
nicely wrapped up it did feel a little rushed in comparison to his other books
but then maybe I am comparing 10 books to 1 !!
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