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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
This book is not about zombies, well not just about zombies. It is about having your illusions ripped away. It is about growing up and realizing that what you thought was true about the world is not true. It is about coming to know who you are as a person and who those around you are. It is about finding out that the true heroes in the world are not those that go around bragging loudly about their courageous deeds, but those that quietly do what needs to be done without thought for reward or gratitude. This is a book that teaches us that the most evil thing out there is often not the most obvious. That man, who has the ability to make choices and still makes the choice to do what he does is sometimes the most evil thing we can imagine. This is also a book about family and hope and love and deciding not to let fear rule your life. It is about making the choices that let you stand up to evil and defeat it (for a time) and choose hope and life. And it is a book with zombies in it, but it isn't a book about zombies.
A decently original take on the zombie genre, in which we come to see the monsters as something unexpected. With and through the eyes of Benny Imura. Benny is a fifteen-year-old survivor of First Night, fourteen years ago. He's spent his life in the city compound of Mountainside, raised by his brother, Tom. Benny's first memory is of Tom grabbing Benny and fleeing while their parents died, so it doesn't make sense why everyone looks up to Tom as the best Bounty Hunter when Benny knows he's secretly a coward. Still, everyone has to contribute through a livelihood and all of his other options sound worse than apprenticing to Tom. Finally given the chance to leave his sheltered home and venture out into the Rot & Ruin, Benny finds himself reevaluating everything he's ever thought about Tom, the zoms, his idols, and the world.
I don't recommend this unless you really really love being morally beaten and reading about zombies. Easy to put down and doesn't really draw you in at all. Only finished it for the sake of finishing the review and seeing just how dumb the ending could possibly be.
Alright I must have bad luck with books this year, cause just like the first book I read this year, this book sucked.
This book would have been better if the first half of it didn't exist. The book doesn't get actually good until chapter 47. Everything before that is Moral throat stuffing, excessive talking and near pointless filler.
The main over arching aspect of this book is morality, and the book beats you over the head with it.
For summary:
The main character, Benny, is the younger sibling of Moral token hunter Tom. Everyone loves tom but the "evil" people because he is "Moral". Benny thinks he's weak but that's cause he doesn't know anything. All teens know nothing, all teens are bratty and childish. Benny had to get a job because he's 15 and eventually caved to being trained as a hunter by his brother. They go out into the rot and ruin and "everything changes". From there it's just a bunch of pointless talking, moral high ground and destroying a devious plot. The people behind the plot are evil, but only evil because of "morals". But at least destroying the devious plot is actually enjoyable to read and is the books only saving grace.
For characters:
Benny is relatable only in that he doesn't want to work and is frustrated at being talked down to constantly and people sticking their heads in the sand. This only last a few chapters. Other than that Benny is weirdly immature for a 15 year old. It's off putting. Seriously he sounds more like a 9/10 year old. Not only that but he's a bratty egotistical nosey 10 year old. He goes from being cold, calm and tough kid. To being a weak emotional mess that bares almost no resemblance to the previous person. Unless everyone now has emotional disorders this makes no sense and is emotional manipulation by the author and moral baiting for the readers. "If you act immoral you will be destroyed by emotions" *eyeroll*. Benny loves hearing gory stories from Charlie about torturing and killing zombies but then turns around and gags at it? This doesn't make any sense.
Tom, now no one ever shuts the hell up about tom. The entire book. He is a high as twenty horses morally righteous sword wielding sunshine glowing behind his head role model. I don't like him. He babies the hell out of Benny and constantly is right about everything.
The lost girl, she has a name but that would spoil things. Best character in the book. Insane, crazy, weird, tough and free. Of course that goes away when the righteous good moral guy gets involved. However she is completely out of place in the book. A book entirely about her and her expirences would be fantastic.
Charlie is a badass but of course badass tough people must be evil. That's all there is to his character.
Nix is just a token love interest and her BOOBIES are talked about more than she's in the book.
Stereotypes:
There's a fair amount of these and the book treats all these stereotypes as if they are totally true. (Hint most of them are rarely to never true.)
* The "girl has BOOBS, so she's a girl now" thus "I feel awkward around her now" stereotype. Very annoying stereotype at that.
* "Well your not a girl so you couldn't understand" Cringe.
* "These teens don't understand how the world works" and the book treats this tope as if it's a constany true thing. This is infuriating and insulting.
* Of course cool badass tough dudes are "evil" people *eye roll*
* Our generation messed everything up, your generation has to fix it. See at least this stereotype is true in the real world but it's framed horribly in the book.
For world building and story telling:
A couple of the chapters are just a page long and others are over 20 long. Frankly chapters should be at least reasonably the same length.
One chapter is just a page devoted to "old Benny wouldn't have done this" being repeated in different ways plus he's on a horse.
One chapter is just about children smiling creepily. Sure I enjoyed it but still, an entire chapter?
One entire page is just filled up with one person talking, no breaks. This is not how your write a book.
The author choose to go right from a traumatised emotion wreck of a kid weeping to a joke about zombie playing cards (collect them all!) this book doesn't know what it wants to be.
It makes no sense for a boy who's just been traumatised by zombies and now sees them as people to immediately buy some zombie trading cards that's not how trauma works.
A news reporter has shot themselves on camera in real life before. No one I knew said or thought "oh god". It was more like "wow" "hahaha" "well then" "that was neat" that's how a real teenager responds.
Spends a long time trying to build a relationship between Benny and tom and tring to make the reader feel close to and attached to tom. It doesn't work at all.
The build up to the romance and relationship thing is painfully obvious and doesn't feel remoelty "real". The two second love triangle is creepy and is obviously there for no other reason than tension. The entire relationship/romance thing is out of place in this book and shouldn't have even been included.
They try a little to pass the loner off as being bad speaker but she speaks far far far better than someone who never talks would.
There's some pretty great word play in the last two chapters. Pretty much no where else tho. "The right and left fist of violence" I love this description.
Finally, the 13th chapter is the most melodramatic thing I have ever read.
The book is broken down into 4 parts and these parts can be really easily summed up:
First part: 15 year old behaving like a 10 year old. Teenagers being babied and a bunch of religious Moral throat
stuffing.
Second part: two guys in a cabin. Excessive pointless talking. Conspiracy! Murder! Kidnapping! Got find that girl gotta find that girl gotta find that girl......
Third part: tracking, talking, tracking, talking, tracking, talking, tracking, BOMB! Trap! Death!
Fourth part: get the girl, really get the girl. Family destroyed and time to be sneaky. The kids have gone mad. A bunch of death and steoryoyical good ending. But everything is not the same! We're all changed! Home isn't home any more! Let's hit the road for the sake of the author being able to make a second book and leech some money out of people!
Some other things:
I hate the word "zoms". Like really hate it, you could probably see my face physically wince every time I read that word. Which was unfortunately a lot. The word Noms is even worse but is less frequent in the book.
The amount of babying everyone does to benny is infuriating and this shit is why teens get pissed at their parents and other like minded adults.
When the religious zealots came with their little bit of religious nonsense I really hoped that would be the end of the Jesus, God, almighty etc stuff. I was sadly mistaken. the book acknowledges "The Children" as being crazy but then it doesn't and paints them as the right moral ones and everyone else as idiots or evil.
Zombie pit fighting sounds like an awesome read but the book goes evangelical moral try hard on you.
The 47 chapter was great. Bunch of kids sitting around smiling dark bloody murder. To bad it's only just over a page long. Not sure how many pages you could devote to kids smiling like maniacs tho.
The epilogue is the best part of the book, the most real part of the book and it's not even one of the actual chapters.
Then there's "cards" in the end of the book. And good god is the lost girl's card sexualised. Underboob? Really? Shirt so tight and wet you see the entire outline of her breast? Really? A dagger pointing right at her crotch and slightly sticking under belt/into her pants? Really? Wtf.
Finally for the cover:
This cover is actually pretty darn neat and visually appealing. Will definitely catch the eye of any zombie fan and makes it very clear the books about zombies without telling you anything other than the main character is a boy and that the book is "dark". "This book is full of heart..." hahahahaha no more like filled with moral evangelicalism. Being exclusively moral doesn't equal having heart. The font and word placement is grade A good. To bad the cover looks better than the book reads.
Over all it was a dead read, even by zombie standards (haha). The women are oddly sexualised and at the most random of points. The entire point of the book is moral preaching and it tries to cover that up with zombies. This feels more like Christian fiction that YA zombie fiction. Finally it's far far too long for its content.
Alright I must have bad luck with books this year, cause just like the first book I read this year, this book sucked.
This book would have been better if the first half of it didn't exist. The book doesn't get actually good until chapter 47. Everything before that is Moral throat stuffing, excessive talking and near pointless filler.
The main over arching aspect of this book is morality, and the book beats you over the head with it.
For summary:
The main character, Benny, is the younger sibling of Moral token hunter Tom. Everyone loves tom but the "evil" people because he is "Moral". Benny thinks he's weak but that's cause he doesn't know anything. All teens know nothing, all teens are bratty and childish. Benny had to get a job because he's 15 and eventually caved to being trained as a hunter by his brother. They go out into the rot and ruin and "everything changes". From there it's just a bunch of pointless talking, moral high ground and destroying a devious plot. The people behind the plot are evil, but only evil because of "morals". But at least destroying the devious plot is actually enjoyable to read and is the books only saving grace.
For characters:
Benny is relatable only in that he doesn't want to work and is frustrated at being talked down to constantly and people sticking their heads in the sand. This only last a few chapters. Other than that Benny is weirdly immature for a 15 year old. It's off putting. Seriously he sounds more like a 9/10 year old. Not only that but he's a bratty egotistical nosey 10 year old. He goes from being cold, calm and tough kid. To being a weak emotional mess that bares almost no resemblance to the previous person. Unless everyone now has emotional disorders this makes no sense and is emotional manipulation by the author and moral baiting for the readers. "If you act immoral you will be destroyed by emotions" *eyeroll*. Benny loves hearing gory stories from Charlie about torturing and killing zombies but then turns around and gags at it? This doesn't make any sense.
Tom, now no one ever shuts the hell up about tom. The entire book. He is a high as twenty horses morally righteous sword wielding sunshine glowing behind his head role model. I don't like him. He babies the hell out of Benny and constantly is right about everything.
The lost girl, she has a name but that would spoil things. Best character in the book. Insane, crazy, weird, tough and free. Of course that goes away when the righteous good moral guy gets involved. However she is completely out of place in the book. A book entirely about her and her expirences would be fantastic.
Charlie is a badass but of course badass tough people must be evil. That's all there is to his character.
Nix is just a token love interest and her BOOBIES are talked about more than she's in the book.
Stereotypes:
There's a fair amount of these and the book treats all these stereotypes as if they are totally true. (Hint most of them are rarely to never true.)
* The "girl has BOOBS, so she's a girl now" thus "I feel awkward around her now" stereotype. Very annoying stereotype at that.
* "Well your not a girl so you couldn't understand" Cringe.
* "These teens don't understand how the world works" and the book treats this tope as if it's a constany true thing. This is infuriating and insulting.
* Of course cool badass tough dudes are "evil" people *eye roll*
* Our generation messed everything up, your generation has to fix it. See at least this stereotype is true in the real world but it's framed horribly in the book.
For world building and story telling:
A couple of the chapters are just a page long and others are over 20 long. Frankly chapters should be at least reasonably the same length.
One chapter is just a page devoted to "old Benny wouldn't have done this" being repeated in different ways plus he's on a horse.
One chapter is just about children smiling creepily. Sure I enjoyed it but still, an entire chapter?
One entire page is just filled up with one person talking, no breaks. This is not how your write a book.
The author choose to go right from a traumatised emotion wreck of a kid weeping to a joke about zombie playing cards (collect them all!) this book doesn't know what it wants to be.
It makes no sense for a boy who's just been traumatised by zombies and now sees them as people to immediately buy some zombie trading cards that's not how trauma works.
A news reporter has shot themselves on camera in real life before. No one I knew said or thought "oh god". It was more like "wow" "hahaha" "well then" "that was neat" that's how a real teenager responds.
Spends a long time trying to build a relationship between Benny and tom and tring to make the reader feel close to and attached to tom. It doesn't work at all.
The build up to the romance and relationship thing is painfully obvious and doesn't feel remoelty "real". The two second love triangle is creepy and is obviously there for no other reason than tension. The entire relationship/romance thing is out of place in this book and shouldn't have even been included.
They try a little to pass the loner off as being bad speaker but she speaks far far far better than someone who never talks would.
There's some pretty great word play in the last two chapters. Pretty much no where else tho. "The right and left fist of violence" I love this description.
Finally, the 13th chapter is the most melodramatic thing I have ever read.
The book is broken down into 4 parts and these parts can be really easily summed up:
First part: 15 year old behaving like a 10 year old. Teenagers being babied and a bunch of religious Moral throat
stuffing.
Second part: two guys in a cabin. Excessive pointless talking. Conspiracy! Murder! Kidnapping! Got find that girl gotta find that girl gotta find that girl......
Third part: tracking, talking, tracking, talking, tracking, talking, tracking, BOMB! Trap! Death!
Fourth part: get the girl, really get the girl. Family destroyed and time to be sneaky. The kids have gone mad. A bunch of death and steoryoyical good ending. But everything is not the same! We're all changed! Home isn't home any more! Let's hit the road for the sake of the author being able to make a second book and leech some money out of people!
Some other things:
I hate the word "zoms". Like really hate it, you could probably see my face physically wince every time I read that word. Which was unfortunately a lot. The word Noms is even worse but is less frequent in the book.
The amount of babying everyone does to benny is infuriating and this shit is why teens get pissed at their parents and other like minded adults.
When the religious zealots came with their little bit of religious nonsense I really hoped that would be the end of the Jesus, God, almighty etc stuff. I was sadly mistaken. the book acknowledges "The Children" as being crazy but then it doesn't and paints them as the right moral ones and everyone else as idiots or evil.
Zombie pit fighting sounds like an awesome read but the book goes evangelical moral try hard on you.
The 47 chapter was great. Bunch of kids sitting around smiling dark bloody murder. To bad it's only just over a page long. Not sure how many pages you could devote to kids smiling like maniacs tho.
The epilogue is the best part of the book, the most real part of the book and it's not even one of the actual chapters.
Then there's "cards" in the end of the book. And good god is the lost girl's card sexualised. Underboob? Really? Shirt so tight and wet you see the entire outline of her breast? Really? A dagger pointing right at her crotch and slightly sticking under belt/into her pants? Really? Wtf.
Finally for the cover:
This cover is actually pretty darn neat and visually appealing. Will definitely catch the eye of any zombie fan and makes it very clear the books about zombies without telling you anything other than the main character is a boy and that the book is "dark". "This book is full of heart..." hahahahaha no more like filled with moral evangelicalism. Being exclusively moral doesn't equal having heart. The font and word placement is grade A good. To bad the cover looks better than the book reads.
Over all it was a dead read, even by zombie standards (haha). The women are oddly sexualised and at the most random of points. The entire point of the book is moral preaching and it tries to cover that up with zombies. This feels more like Christian fiction that YA zombie fiction. Finally it's far far too long for its content.
To be honest, this is really more of a 3.5 for me, than a full on 4. I have reasons.
When I saw the series, and it's Harry Potter-sized installments, I was actually more excited than nervous, because I assumed that this could only mean pages and pages of action and world-building, and character development. Well, while some of that is true, I think what I quickly learned instead was that Jonathan Maberry really loves sentences. Long ones, short ones, skinny ones, dead ones; whatever kind of sentence it may be, he will find a way to fit it in there. Necessary or not.
After finishing the book, I read his biography on the back cover, and suddenly it all made sense. Those who write comics, do so because that is a medium that allows the pictures to assist the storytelling. So I'm guessing, if this was any indication, that when they have to use actual words, they can tend to overcompensate.
The story here is not bad. It just takes a bit of a journey to get to. Maberry's comic-book background shows intensely here, as we see many characters written in larger-than-life heroic details. Tom Imura, for example, annoyed the crap out of me in some ways, but then imagining him as a comic book character, I could see how I'd have loved him even more (I eventually did love him), in that medium.
Okay, so what's the story about:
Well, Benny Imura has lived in Mountainside practically his entire life. Safe behind the fences, the town's inhabitants very rarely have to venture out into the "Rot & Ruin", or the remnants of California where zombies have taken over. Benny lives with his half-brother Tom, a bounty hunter. In this world, bounty hunters are those called upon to clear out areas or seek out specific zoms; those who families ask to be "quieted", or those who were especially heinous on "First Night - the night the dead reanimated".
Of all the bounty hunters, Benny has very little respect for his brother, because in his mind, Tom is a poser whodid nothing to protect his mother from their dad, who was bitten on First Night, but rather grabbed Benny and ran. Instead, he looks up to Charlie Matthias and The Hammer, two celebrity bounty hunters who live in town. And here is where one of my first issues came into play. I know we all tend to think of teenagers as ungrateful little snots, but seriously, in a world of zombies overtaking the earth, do we think a fifteen year old kid wouldn't have sense enough to realize that his brother actually saved his life? Or, that he would hold onto that much hate and never once have actually SAID it to his brother?
At age 15, those in Mountainside have their rations reduced and must take on a job in addition to school. Many in the town have equated technology to the reason behind the fall of man, and therefore the town doesn't use any. Benny's job choices include Erosion Artist-those who draw pictures of the lost for the bounty hunters to find, Wall Sentry-guarding the town wall, and a few other choice trades. The one he doesn't necessarily want, however, is training under his brother Tom.
But of course, that's the job he has to take.
So, out with Tom, he's being a whiny brat for the most part, thinking of zoms as just dumb zoms, and expecting to see Tom as he always has, and not as the superhero everyone in town seems to think of him as, when a funny thing happens; he finds out that Tom is actually pretty cool, and allows Tom to impress upon him the fact that zombies were once people and should be respected, even when you have to quiet them. Benny also realizes firsthand that out in the Rot&Ruin there are actually a lot of horrible things and people, including the great Charlie & The Hammer (Think, Walking Dead's Governor and other similar characters), and that Tom is actually one of the very few with honor.
But here's where another of my issues comes up. Because they see all of this, and get home, and Benny STILL resents his brother. I'm guessing in maybe the, "I hate you for showing me the truth", kind of way, but still,...I couldn't understand it. And this took about 150 pages, just so ya know.
Then the new zombie trading cards come out. What are zombie trading cards, you ask? Why they're all the rage. They contain hand-drawn images of bounty hunters, most-wanted zoms, and other interesting beings of the R&R. And in Benny's new pack, there is a card of "The Lost Girl". She's creepy but gorgeous to him, and Benny has to know more.
Knowing that the only person who could draw that girl with such realism would be the town's Erosion Artist, Rob Sacchetto, so he goes to ask him about her and if she's real. Hearing her story, he decides that he has to at least try to find her. Then Charlie shows up, and it's clear that not only is she real, but that Charlies wants no one to find her.
The story picks up dramatically here, as the card sets off a chain of events that send everyone into a uproar, and sends Tom and Benny, back out into the Ruin, to protect not one, but two lost girls.
When we get to the last two parts of the book, things really start moving, and you can see all that Maberry has attempted to set into effect through those extremely thick earlier chapters. And THOSE final parts are what bumped my review up to a 3.5, because prior to that, I was sooo bored. Not that things weren't intriguing, but more because it just didn't take that many pages to say the very same thing over and over. The characters here are pretty amazingly built, when you get past the extra fluff, and the world is interesting enough. I don't know that I can do the following books in the series, but maybe, just maybe, I'll give them a try.
UPDATE: Just learned, it's being re-released in graphic novel format, and I couldn't be happier. my link text
When I saw the series, and it's Harry Potter-sized installments, I was actually more excited than nervous, because I assumed that this could only mean pages and pages of action and world-building, and character development. Well, while some of that is true, I think what I quickly learned instead was that Jonathan Maberry really loves sentences. Long ones, short ones, skinny ones, dead ones; whatever kind of sentence it may be, he will find a way to fit it in there. Necessary or not.
After finishing the book, I read his biography on the back cover, and suddenly it all made sense. Those who write comics, do so because that is a medium that allows the pictures to assist the storytelling. So I'm guessing, if this was any indication, that when they have to use actual words, they can tend to overcompensate.
The story here is not bad. It just takes a bit of a journey to get to. Maberry's comic-book background shows intensely here, as we see many characters written in larger-than-life heroic details. Tom Imura, for example, annoyed the crap out of me in some ways, but then imagining him as a comic book character, I could see how I'd have loved him even more (I eventually did love him), in that medium.
Okay, so what's the story about:
Well, Benny Imura has lived in Mountainside practically his entire life. Safe behind the fences, the town's inhabitants very rarely have to venture out into the "Rot & Ruin", or the remnants of California where zombies have taken over. Benny lives with his half-brother Tom, a bounty hunter. In this world, bounty hunters are those called upon to clear out areas or seek out specific zoms; those who families ask to be "quieted", or those who were especially heinous on "First Night - the night the dead reanimated".
Of all the bounty hunters, Benny has very little respect for his brother, because in his mind, Tom is a poser whodid nothing to protect his mother from their dad, who was bitten on First Night, but rather grabbed Benny and ran. Instead, he looks up to Charlie Matthias and The Hammer, two celebrity bounty hunters who live in town. And here is where one of my first issues came into play. I know we all tend to think of teenagers as ungrateful little snots, but seriously, in a world of zombies overtaking the earth, do we think a fifteen year old kid wouldn't have sense enough to realize that his brother actually saved his life? Or, that he would hold onto that much hate and never once have actually SAID it to his brother?
At age 15, those in Mountainside have their rations reduced and must take on a job in addition to school. Many in the town have equated technology to the reason behind the fall of man, and therefore the town doesn't use any. Benny's job choices include Erosion Artist-those who draw pictures of the lost for the bounty hunters to find, Wall Sentry-guarding the town wall, and a few other choice trades. The one he doesn't necessarily want, however, is training under his brother Tom.
But of course, that's the job he has to take.
So, out with Tom, he's being a whiny brat for the most part, thinking of zoms as just dumb zoms, and expecting to see Tom as he always has, and not as the superhero everyone in town seems to think of him as, when a funny thing happens; he finds out that Tom is actually pretty cool, and allows Tom to impress upon him the fact that zombies were once people and should be respected, even when you have to quiet them. Benny also realizes firsthand that out in the Rot&Ruin there are actually a lot of horrible things and people, including the great Charlie & The Hammer (Think, Walking Dead's Governor and other similar characters), and that Tom is actually one of the very few with honor.
But here's where another of my issues comes up. Because they see all of this, and get home, and Benny STILL resents his brother. I'm guessing in maybe the, "I hate you for showing me the truth", kind of way, but still,...I couldn't understand it. And this took about 150 pages, just so ya know.
Then the new zombie trading cards come out. What are zombie trading cards, you ask? Why they're all the rage. They contain hand-drawn images of bounty hunters, most-wanted zoms, and other interesting beings of the R&R. And in Benny's new pack, there is a card of "The Lost Girl". She's creepy but gorgeous to him, and Benny has to know more.
Knowing that the only person who could draw that girl with such realism would be the town's Erosion Artist, Rob Sacchetto, so he goes to ask him about her and if she's real. Hearing her story, he decides that he has to at least try to find her. Then Charlie shows up, and it's clear that not only is she real, but that Charlies wants no one to find her.
The story picks up dramatically here, as the card sets off a chain of events that send everyone into a uproar, and sends Tom and Benny, back out into the Ruin, to protect not one, but two lost girls.
When we get to the last two parts of the book, things really start moving, and you can see all that Maberry has attempted to set into effect through those extremely thick earlier chapters. And THOSE final parts are what bumped my review up to a 3.5, because prior to that, I was sooo bored. Not that things weren't intriguing, but more because it just didn't take that many pages to say the very same thing over and over. The characters here are pretty amazingly built, when you get past the extra fluff, and the world is interesting enough. I don't know that I can do the following books in the series, but maybe, just maybe, I'll give them a try.
UPDATE: Just learned, it's being re-released in graphic novel format, and I couldn't be happier. my link text
Like an episode of The Walking Dead but without your favorite characters.
Started out slow, but the plot quickly built upon the idea that zombies weren't the real evil in this post-apocalyptic society. I liked it more than i thought i was going to when i started it.
I have been reading too many fluff books lately and it took me a while to get into this but it is good...gets more into the human nature aspect. I don't think I could could have the same outlook about the zoms as presented...but it was good. on to the next!
I am nearly finished with this book and have so far been pleasantly surprised. The thought that the author has put into describing how the zombies function and more importantly, how society has reacted are a little more in depth than a typical zombie novel. What sets this one apart, though, is that the narrative is more than just people trying to survive zombies- it is people trying to survive people.
There is a lot of character development in this book, specifically with the main character Benny that was refreshing. He changes a lot over the course of the book and it is neither something that happens in a short time, it happens for a reason, and the author manages to keep Benny connected to whom he was before. Benny doesn't have this sudden turn around where he was one way at first, but now he thinks differently. He still has his moments where old habits die hard.
There is a lot of character development in this book, specifically with the main character Benny that was refreshing. He changes a lot over the course of the book and it is neither something that happens in a short time, it happens for a reason, and the author manages to keep Benny connected to whom he was before. Benny doesn't have this sudden turn around where he was one way at first, but now he thinks differently. He still has his moments where old habits die hard.
4,5'tan beş. Charlie o kadar çok konuşmasaydı tam puan alacaktı. Beklentimin epey üstündeydi. Ne pislikler ama ya. Hepsini bir kaşık suda boğasım geldi.
A quick read. Not normally into zombie stuff, but I liked reading about this world Maberry created. Will read the next.