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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Superheroes and zombies together in one book. This was amazing. I loved the skipping backward and forward to tell the present story of survival and the past origin stories of the heroes and the zombie virus. Great story.
This was SUCH an excellent book. The heroes are diverse and well-written and I loved every single one of them. The zombies are your typical "virus outbreak gone wrong" but the twist of how they started is pretty shocking and excellently played. I love how this book played out and never thought I'd have so much fun reading a book of zombies vs. super heroes (okay, I knew it would be AWESOME, but still).
If you love super heroes you will love this book. If you love zombies you will love this book. If you love both, well, you just hit the jack-pot.
Aside from the characters, I also enjoyed how the narrative bounced back and forth between the present (which is well into the zombie apocalypse) and the past (which mainly deals with the days leading up to it.
If you love super heroes you will love this book. If you love zombies you will love this book. If you love both, well, you just hit the jack-pot.
Aside from the characters, I also enjoyed how the narrative bounced back and forth between the present (which is well into the zombie apocalypse) and the past (which mainly deals with the days leading up to it.
Zombies vs superheroes...what's not to love?! This book is everything you would expect from this genre mashup, it's fun, it has geeky references and it has zombies. Everything in life is better with zombies.
There are some fairly typical superheroes you would expect from any hero type story- St. George the Mighty Dragon - a man who has super strength, can breathe fire, and is able to glide through the air, Stealth - an abrupt woman who keeps her identity still hidden, Gorgon - who can siphon people's energy through his eyes, Cerberus - a genius intellect wrapped up inside an iron man like suit, Zzzap - who can become pure energy, and Regenerator - can heal almost any injury. The heroes have set up a community with other survivors in the paramount studio lot and life was starting to become somewhat stable until the zombies start regaining awareness.
Ex-Heroes is told in two parts - Now, told from the third-person perspective, and Then, a series of flashbacks for each character told from the first-person perspective. The Now chapters are full of action as the heroes take on the zombies and an old rival gang and is a fairly straightforward good vs evil. The Then chapters provide us with insight into how the heroes developed their powers and how they came to live together. I much preferred the Then chapters and enjoyed the backstories the characters.
Superheroes vs zombies could have been ridiculous (and some people might think it is) but I found it wonderful. Light, fun, engaging, great characters, and a clear big bad the heroes can defeat without guilt. Perfect.
There are some fairly typical superheroes you would expect from any hero type story- St. George the Mighty Dragon - a man who has super strength, can breathe fire, and is able to glide through the air, Stealth - an abrupt woman who keeps her identity still hidden, Gorgon - who can siphon people's energy through his eyes, Cerberus - a genius intellect wrapped up inside an iron man like suit, Zzzap - who can become pure energy, and Regenerator - can heal almost any injury. The heroes have set up a community with other survivors in the paramount studio lot and life was starting to become somewhat stable until the zombies start regaining awareness.
Ex-Heroes is told in two parts - Now, told from the third-person perspective, and Then, a series of flashbacks for each character told from the first-person perspective. The Now chapters are full of action as the heroes take on the zombies and an old rival gang and is a fairly straightforward good vs evil. The Then chapters provide us with insight into how the heroes developed their powers and how they came to live together. I much preferred the Then chapters and enjoyed the backstories the characters.
Superheroes vs zombies could have been ridiculous (and some people might think it is) but I found it wonderful. Light, fun, engaging, great characters, and a clear big bad the heroes can defeat without guilt. Perfect.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"I'm pretty sure you already know who I am. As for everyone else ... I don't think there are enough people left to make a secret identity worth the effort."
Fun, action packed read in which a handful of surviving superheroes try to preserve what's left of the world after a zombie-apocalypse.
Fun, action packed read in which a handful of surviving superheroes try to preserve what's left of the world after a zombie-apocalypse.
So much potential but this book just doesn't seem to ever reach its maximum bad-ass coolness. Everytime it gets close, the dialogue flops or the action scene is questionable. Admittedly dialogue wasn't helped by the multivoiced narration. Too bad though, I really wanted to like this one.
This is what you get when you cross Zombies with Super Heroes. The world has been decimated by zombies, or Ex-Humans. They shamble around the place and will kill, eat, convert any other living creature they come across.
There are also Super Heroes, humans with special powers that have materialised. Think of these heroes as those you would expect to find in old fashioned comic books, but a little grittier.
Throw in a bad dude who has the ability to cross both the Zombies and Superheros, and you have a super villain ready to be taken down.
This was a OK ready. It delivers exactly what you would expect. I know this is a series, but i doubt i will continue as i have other books on my TBR pile that i would like to read before coming back to this series. Maybe if it was on offer.
There are also Super Heroes, humans with special powers that have materialised. Think of these heroes as those you would expect to find in old fashioned comic books, but a little grittier.
Throw in a bad dude who has the ability to cross both the Zombies and Superheros, and you have a super villain ready to be taken down.
This was a OK ready. It delivers exactly what you would expect. I know this is a series, but i doubt i will continue as i have other books on my TBR pile that i would like to read before coming back to this series. Maybe if it was on offer.
While it's certainly no literary feat, it's a super fun pop-culture-reference-saturated-zombie-battle-book. Just as it sounds like.
I won a copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway.
I'm officially a Peter Clines fan. I know this isn't the first time someone has examined the possibility of superheroes fighting zombies, but this still felt fresh and original to me. The heroes are still human, and are certainly fallible. Some have even fallen prey to the zombies and/or have been turned. So even though our heroes are acting as heroically as possible, I can relate to them. One thing that helps us relate to the heroes are regular flashbacks to either the time before the "Zombocalypse" or the early stages. I felt that these flashbacks were timed pretty well and they didn't really feel as though they were interrupting the "now" narrative. I'm guessing this is harder to achieve than it sounds.
In total, this was a very engaging story and I found myself actually thinking about the characters, rather than just "watching" them act. Caring about the people in a story is a good sign to me. I'm excited to continue on with this series and will keep Peter Clines on my "to read" shelf going forward.
I'm officially a Peter Clines fan. I know this isn't the first time someone has examined the possibility of superheroes fighting zombies, but this still felt fresh and original to me. The heroes are still human, and are certainly fallible. Some have even fallen prey to the zombies and/or have been turned. So even though our heroes are acting as heroically as possible, I can relate to them. One thing that helps us relate to the heroes are regular flashbacks to either the time before the "Zombocalypse" or the early stages. I felt that these flashbacks were timed pretty well and they didn't really feel as though they were interrupting the "now" narrative. I'm guessing this is harder to achieve than it sounds.
In total, this was a very engaging story and I found myself actually thinking about the characters, rather than just "watching" them act. Caring about the people in a story is a good sign to me. I'm excited to continue on with this series and will keep Peter Clines on my "to read" shelf going forward.