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Fiend by Peter Stenson

juicelina's review against another edition

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3.0

a wild ride from start to finish lol. There was a lot happening in this book. The audiobook was really good and I definitely recommend it.

bt329's review

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2.0

Definitely an original and creative conceit, but DEEPLY annoying to read.

dawnoftheread's review

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5.0

Gruesome, violent, and deeply sad. I loved it.

cinderheliaxmnc1's review

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4.0

You had me at meth and zombies

helloandie's review

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4.0

kind of amazingly depressing, but very hard to put down.

kaylaabee's review

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3.0

Wow.
I was only going to give this 2 stars because as entertaining as this was, I was thinking "wtf" to myself through the entire thing. I hated the romance and only liked 1 or 2 of the characters. The drug addiction aspect although mostly accurate, was also extremely annoying. What really did it over for me was I absolutely LOVED the ending. It wasn't predictable and left me satisfied.

mundpund's review

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adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

michaellouisdixon's review

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4.0

Great concept and very well executed. I've always found the drug addict POV fascinating. Peter Stenson brings that view to the Zombie Apocalypse and does a damned good job of it.

I'm looking forward to his next book.

kateh3077's review

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4.0

I would like to start this review by thanking BloggingforBooks for allowing me to read this book and I am so glad that I was able to because although it took me a while to read I really enjoyed it. Which is why I am giving 4 stars out of 5.

When I chose this book off of the bloggingforbooks.com site its cover made me think that it would be a book that I would enjoy so I then read the synopsis for it and decided that I would like to read. And the book did not disappoint in the least and the image on the cover was really appropriate as its a danger symbol.

It took me a while to read this book because although the authors writing style immersed you in the story because of the fact that the story was about a group of drug addicts stuck in the middle of the zombie appocalypse, who were tripping most of the time so there were times when you didn't know when the things were actually happening or whether it was part of their hallucination. I didn't think about it while I was reading but there was a link the mindlessness of the zombies and the drug addicts and the author showed this in a very clever way because it didn't really occur to me until I had finished reading the book and thought about it for a while.

The author developed the characters and the world that they were in so well that you felt that you were actually part of the story as well as making me aware of how dark and scary it would be to be the non living dead alive when the zombie appocalypse happened.

I enjoyed this book and will be re reading it again at some point as well as possibly buy a paperback copy so I can have it on my shelf. I will also recomend it to others/buy it as gifts for other people.
I would like to start this review by thanking Blogging for Books for allowing me to read this book and I am so glad that I was able to because although it took me a while to read I really enjoyed it. Which is why I am giving 4 stars out of 5.

macchi's review

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4.0

Raw, unrelenting in its depiction of addiction in the zombie apocalypse.