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- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
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if i could rate it any lower, i would.
Oh boy you know all those normal criticisms from normal people about superheroes and capes and villains and etc in this genre? they're right. And this book is basically all the worst shit about super heroes gone bad'.
[by 'normal people' I mean Black people and people of color. no, self aware whites aren't included as there's nothing you people can say that Black people or people of color couldn't say better, with more self awareness.]
specifically the criticisms refer to are superheroes being reskinned fantasy cops, with all the racism, *phobia, antisemitism, etc etc that goes along with actual irl abuse cops have commited.
This book is all that, but about zombies. Zombies also have literary criticism, such as being standins for race or xenophobia towards people who aren't white, cisgender, heterosexual, etc etc all the quote unquite normal standards set by white supremacy.
at this time there are 400 reviews. I have no idea why there's no content warnings unless 400 white people with zero critical thinking skills or experience in recognizing harmful content read and reviewed this book.
so about this book. it's zombie dystopia. this is a pretty basic zombie story. that there are superheros dont really change or add to it. it's basically police characters but with magic powers. You could exchange the super powers with sci fi high tech weaponry and nothing would change.
Yes the superheroes are not anti heroes. It's grimdark, edgy, gorey, blah blah blah. Does this book do it well? no. not really.
It's also racist as hell, as noted by this review here
"Two things made me feel it was racist. One, every time an individual zombie was described (gleefully) as being ripped apart, we were told what race they belonged to. Since this book happened to be set in LA, there were quite a few Asians. He'd also describe if they were blonde or brunette or old or young. But especially the race and especially Asian. Then second, there was the Latino gang that was portrayed as being lead by a single intelligent undead monster. Who could control zombies with his superpower. The gang members were portrayed as animalistic, for the most part, in the most old skool clichΓ©d gang fashion. Like something from a 70s movie like The Warriors or Mad Max perhaps. Their humanity was not really acknowledged by the author."
--daviddavidkatzman, from here https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e3b8ff47-6acd-4bf0-9a85-619ef468aeb7
unlike daviddavidkatzman I'm gunna go ahead as sa this author is racist and his racism is showing in his media.
like listen, you can do villainy and anti heroes very well in the superhero genre. Drew hayes's villains code does a decent villain. but this book doesn't, hasn't, and I have zero hopes this author can write a book that isn't reheated raw sewage.
Ok so the characters. the female ones usually sex dolls or cliches. i cant count how many times i read some male character describing a womens hot smexy erotic sexxy body. Nobody really gets a deep characterization. the prose felt like a child read a edgy horror book meant for adults only and tried to write like that. the dialogue was tedious.
content warnings
minor pedophilia, gore, death, murder, diseases, pedophilia, sexual harassment, gun violence, ableist c slur, Japanese nationalism,
medium body horror, violence, gun violence, violence, misogyny, suicide,
major transphobia, violence, gun violence, gore, child death, child abuse?, medical content, police, body horror,
if i could rate it any lower, i would.
Oh boy you know all those normal criticisms from normal people about superheroes and capes and villains and etc in this genre? they're right. And this book is basically all the worst shit about super heroes gone bad'.
[by 'normal people' I mean Black people and people of color. no, self aware whites aren't included as there's nothing you people can say that Black people or people of color couldn't say better, with more self awareness.]
specifically the criticisms refer to are superheroes being reskinned fantasy cops, with all the racism, *phobia, antisemitism, etc etc that goes along with actual irl abuse cops have commited.
This book is all that, but about zombies. Zombies also have literary criticism, such as being standins for race or xenophobia towards people who aren't white, cisgender, heterosexual, etc etc all the quote unquite normal standards set by white supremacy.
at this time there are 400 reviews. I have no idea why there's no content warnings unless 400 white people with zero critical thinking skills or experience in recognizing harmful content read and reviewed this book.
so about this book. it's zombie dystopia. this is a pretty basic zombie story. that there are superheros dont really change or add to it. it's basically police characters but with magic powers. You could exchange the super powers with sci fi high tech weaponry and nothing would change.
Yes the superheroes are not anti heroes. It's grimdark, edgy, gorey, blah blah blah. Does this book do it well? no. not really.
It's also racist as hell, as noted by this review here
"Two things made me feel it was racist. One, every time an individual zombie was described (gleefully) as being ripped apart, we were told what race they belonged to. Since this book happened to be set in LA, there were quite a few Asians. He'd also describe if they were blonde or brunette or old or young. But especially the race and especially Asian. Then second, there was the Latino gang that was portrayed as being lead by a single intelligent undead monster. Who could control zombies with his superpower. The gang members were portrayed as animalistic, for the most part, in the most old skool clichΓ©d gang fashion. Like something from a 70s movie like The Warriors or Mad Max perhaps. Their humanity was not really acknowledged by the author."
--daviddavidkatzman, from here https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e3b8ff47-6acd-4bf0-9a85-619ef468aeb7
unlike daviddavidkatzman I'm gunna go ahead as sa this author is racist and his racism is showing in his media.
like listen, you can do villainy and anti heroes very well in the superhero genre. Drew hayes's villains code does a decent villain. but this book doesn't, hasn't, and I have zero hopes this author can write a book that isn't reheated raw sewage.
Ok so the characters. the female ones usually sex dolls or cliches. i cant count how many times i read some male character describing a womens hot smexy erotic sexxy body. Nobody really gets a deep characterization. the prose felt like a child read a edgy horror book meant for adults only and tried to write like that. the dialogue was tedious.
content warnings
minor pedophilia, gore, death, murder, diseases, pedophilia, sexual harassment, gun violence, ableist c slur, Japanese nationalism,
medium body horror, violence, gun violence, violence, misogyny, suicide,
major transphobia, violence, gun violence, gore, child death, child abuse?, medical content, police, body horror,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia, Gun violence, Violence, Gore, Child death, Child abuse, Medical content, Body horror, Death, Sexism, Misogyny, and Racism
Moderate: Body horror, Violence, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Suicide
Minor: Pedophilia, Gore, Death, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Racism
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