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polimatilda's review
5.0
Ezt a részt vártam a legjobban, főleg mert az új Resident Evil 2 Remake eléggé megragadott, és többet akartam tudni az egész sztoriról. Ezért kezdtem el olvasni ezeket a könyveket, és amint lehet hozzálátok a további részeknek, mert nagyon érdekel hova lyukadunk ki. :D
xterminal's review
3.0
S. D. Perry, Resident Evil: City of the Dead (Pocket, 1999)
After a quick diversion into an original novel (Caliban Cove), Perry gets back to the actual game sequence with City of the Dead, a novelization of the game Resident Evil 2, which has always been my favorite of the series. We get a quick intro about the remaining S.T.A.R.S., including Jill Valentine (back from her adventures at Caliban Cove) and Chris Redfield, getting out of town while being hunted by the Umbrella Corporation, and then it's right into the game. Chris Redfield's sister, university student Claire Redfield, has come to Raccoon city looking for her missing brother, while Leon Kennedy, just hired by the Raccoon City Police Department, drives into town for his first day on the job. Both of them, when they get to town, find it oddly deserted. Until, that is, they run into the living dead. After running into one another, Leon tells Claire to meet him at the police station, most likely the safest place in town. “Safe”, however, is a relative term, as the station is not only crawling with zombies (and other, nastier beasts), but inhabited by survivors who may be interested in things other than survival...
What really interests me about this series, which is obviously intended for the YA audience, is that Perry is not at all afraid to tackle themes that might give adult novelists pause. (Telling you what they are would definitely be getting into spoiler territory, so I'll let you find out for yourself; let's just say that Alice Cooper would not feel out of place in Raccoon City, as envisioned by Stephani Perry.) I say “interests” rather than “impresses” because it feels a little unsettling, at least from the perspective of a forty-year-old reading these (I'm sure, had these been available when I was fifteen, I would have found them awesome. And not just because of the zombies). As well, Perry, prolific novelist that she is, is far more interested in telling a story than she is in working language, and so as far as the writing goes, what you have here is a pretty standard survival-horror novel, without a great deal to distinguish it from, say, Dan Brown with zombies. Before you say “well, that's normal”, I'd like to point out that there have been literary zombie novels (or, at least, more literary than the rest of the canon); after all, a love of language can come through no matter what your genre. Heck, there's literary porn. Literary zombies should be a breeze. (If you don't believe me, check out the film Pontypool, which is that conceit taken to its most absurd, and wonderful, conclusion.) Still, if you're a fan of the game series, you're going to like the novelizations. ***
After a quick diversion into an original novel (Caliban Cove), Perry gets back to the actual game sequence with City of the Dead, a novelization of the game Resident Evil 2, which has always been my favorite of the series. We get a quick intro about the remaining S.T.A.R.S., including Jill Valentine (back from her adventures at Caliban Cove) and Chris Redfield, getting out of town while being hunted by the Umbrella Corporation, and then it's right into the game. Chris Redfield's sister, university student Claire Redfield, has come to Raccoon city looking for her missing brother, while Leon Kennedy, just hired by the Raccoon City Police Department, drives into town for his first day on the job. Both of them, when they get to town, find it oddly deserted. Until, that is, they run into the living dead. After running into one another, Leon tells Claire to meet him at the police station, most likely the safest place in town. “Safe”, however, is a relative term, as the station is not only crawling with zombies (and other, nastier beasts), but inhabited by survivors who may be interested in things other than survival...
What really interests me about this series, which is obviously intended for the YA audience, is that Perry is not at all afraid to tackle themes that might give adult novelists pause. (Telling you what they are would definitely be getting into spoiler territory, so I'll let you find out for yourself; let's just say that Alice Cooper would not feel out of place in Raccoon City, as envisioned by Stephani Perry.) I say “interests” rather than “impresses” because it feels a little unsettling, at least from the perspective of a forty-year-old reading these (I'm sure, had these been available when I was fifteen, I would have found them awesome. And not just because of the zombies). As well, Perry, prolific novelist that she is, is far more interested in telling a story than she is in working language, and so as far as the writing goes, what you have here is a pretty standard survival-horror novel, without a great deal to distinguish it from, say, Dan Brown with zombies. Before you say “well, that's normal”, I'd like to point out that there have been literary zombie novels (or, at least, more literary than the rest of the canon); after all, a love of language can come through no matter what your genre. Heck, there's literary porn. Literary zombies should be a breeze. (If you don't believe me, check out the film Pontypool, which is that conceit taken to its most absurd, and wonderful, conclusion.) Still, if you're a fan of the game series, you're going to like the novelizations. ***
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