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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of my favorite books! It lives in a special place within my heart. Such a good cozy read and it is my favorite zombie books to boot. Please read if your a fan of the genre. :D
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dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel like this book had a lot of potential to be great and say important things with its metaphor and then the writer just kinda forgot how to complete a narrative and derailed the whole plot in the last two or so chapters. The 4 rating is for the version of this book that lives in my head. Otherwise it’s a 2 bc I’m mad at the ending.
If you've never had a masturbatory fantasy about what would happen if Chuck Palahniuk and Alan Ball had a zombie love child, then you probably wouldn't understand.
No, seriously. Read 'Rant' while watching 'TrueBlood', and you have 'Breathers: A Zombie's Lament'. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I LOVE those two things, and I think the world needs more literature that falls in that space. True, there's no undead fight club or (un)dead models slouched over a dentist chair, but I like to think that there's just enough black humor and strange facts to keep a little goth reader like myself happy - the information about formaldehyde in beauty products and heads in chicken-trays fell straight out of Mary Roach's 'Stiff', and the subtle but amazing insertion of Oingo Boingo's 'Dead Man's Party' was like a party David Hornsby would have thrown (if he had been a goth kid in high school). Reeking of Jack Daniels-soaked brains that have read too many Chuck P books (no such thing), Breathers is by far my new favorite zombie book...and I'm a vampire girl.
No, seriously. Read 'Rant' while watching 'TrueBlood', and you have 'Breathers: A Zombie's Lament'. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I LOVE those two things, and I think the world needs more literature that falls in that space. True, there's no undead fight club or (un)dead models slouched over a dentist chair, but I like to think that there's just enough black humor and strange facts to keep a little goth reader like myself happy - the information about formaldehyde in beauty products and heads in chicken-trays fell straight out of Mary Roach's 'Stiff', and the subtle but amazing insertion of Oingo Boingo's 'Dead Man's Party' was like a party David Hornsby would have thrown (if he had been a goth kid in high school). Reeking of Jack Daniels-soaked brains that have read too many Chuck P books (no such thing), Breathers is by far my new favorite zombie book...and I'm a vampire girl.
This ended up being pretty awful. I expected it to be silly, but it started to get offensively cutesy-poo at about the halfway point.
This is one of the best zombie stories I have read in a long time. It's centers around Andy, a zombie that reanimated after he was in a car accident with his wife. She did not reanimate, not everyone does and nobody has been able to figure out why certain people do come back. This is a comedy/ horror story and goes into detail about how zombies are treated (they have zero rights and are generally feared and hated). Many parts of the story had me laughing to myself but it also has it's standard zombie attack and grotesque mutilation parts. I will be recommending this book to horror and comedy fans alike.
I am new to zombie books, having found my way to Breathers via Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and then Word War Z. But I don't think I'm cut out for the sub-genre of zombie books where, like in Breathers, the zombies are the main characters. It's an interesting twist, certainly, but when they start eating humans, and weighing the pros and cons and moral dilemmas of eating humans, it gets just a little too gross for me (and zombie books are already too gorey for me to read during mealtimes or before bedtime). I think I definitely prefer my zombies to be mindless monsters, and my main characters to be the humans who are fighting for survival as they rid the world of the zombie threat. That said, I really wanted the zombie characters in Breathers to make it, to win their civil rights struggle and get equal rights with humans. The book was funny and clever and strange and gross and creative--I just can't hack it as a reader of books where sentient zombies eat their parents, that's all.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Breathers is possibly the funniest book I've read to date. The way S. G. Browne times his jokes make the read marvelous. It leaves me wondering why I put it off for so long. It's not difficult to see the comparison to any civil rights movement - the narrator even brings it up himself. What makes this book great is that it's not your typical zombie book. The world isn't at the brink of apocalypse or even the dawn of the post-apocalyptic era. Zombies haven't overpowered humans. In fact, they've been around for centuries and kept in the shadows. Not until recent decades has their presence been acknowledged. And they're even treated the way people treated African-Americans and homosexuals - with fear and ignorance.
The whole zombie civil rights idea aside, the book also judges the humanity of, well, humanity. By shining the light on innocence of children - "Is that true? Are zombies really human?" - to the shear hate of adulthood - "Go back to the grave!" - we're given insight on how outside forces mold our views on what is right and wrong, acceptable and what should be abhorred. It stay true with the Romero-philosophy, the sense that zombies should only bring to realization the way we handle social issues - war, racism, materialism, xenophobia, civil rights, etc.
But Breathers also brings another aspect of the zombie evolution. The creatures aren't mindless. They are exact reflections of the people they once were. And the vampiric rejuvenation is a nice edition to the zombie mythos.
It's the zombie book that will become canon, if not already.
The whole zombie civil rights idea aside, the book also judges the humanity of, well, humanity. By shining the light on innocence of children - "Is that true? Are zombies really human?" - to the shear hate of adulthood - "Go back to the grave!" - we're given insight on how outside forces mold our views on what is right and wrong, acceptable and what should be abhorred. It stay true with the Romero-philosophy, the sense that zombies should only bring to realization the way we handle social issues - war, racism, materialism, xenophobia, civil rights, etc.
But Breathers also brings another aspect of the zombie evolution. The creatures aren't mindless. They are exact reflections of the people they once were. And the vampiric rejuvenation is a nice edition to the zombie mythos.
It's the zombie book that will become canon, if not already.