Reviews

Twilight of the Dead by Travis Adkins, David Moody

rovertoak's review

4.0

Talk about the right book at the right time...sometimes I have a book sitting on the shelf that I don't pick up for months and then I get inspired. Thanks Zombies Goodreads Group for getting me off my butt and back to reading my zombie books. Anyway...I really enjoyed Twilight of the Dead. I got a decent sense of the walled community and then the plot takes off when the mysterious stranger appears promising a cure for the zombie plague. This is damn close to being a young-adult-novel of the zombie apocalypse (like REAL zombies, not Hatian zombies of Sleator's Boy Who Couldn't Die...but that's still a cool book). The end left me wanting more and I guess that's a good thing.

booksfromboxes's review

1.0

The writing in this book is just...bad. Really clunky and disjointed, with endless repetitions and useless details (do we really need to read about how she closes the zipper of her suit?) and the most annoying abuse of the word "situated".
I guess this tidbit a couple of chapters in should have served as a warning:

He was black and a great deal older than most of the soldiers—probably in his late thirties or early forties. However, as they would all soon discover, he was highly articulate and had a strong, domineering voice to go along with it.


...riiiight.