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A review by kaitlinbisneau
Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht
3.0
So this was a reread for me! I recently picked up the fourth book in the series but when I started it I realized it had been so long since I’d read the first three that I wasn’t remembering important information.
This book is nostalgic to me for the period in my life where I was absolutely obsessed with zombies. There are good ideas here like the explanation between sprinters and shamblers. I also really liked the virologist and wished to spend more time with that group. Near the end of the book a character named Stiles is on a solo mission for supplies and I thought that the descriptions were engaging.
Now onto what I didn’t like and what dropped this from a 5-star (from my initial read) to a 3-star.
Many of the names were so similar!! I kept mixing up characters. There are four characters in the soldier group that are named Dewen, Decker, Denton, and Darin. I was constantly mixing them up. The general is Francis Sherman but fortunately is referred to as Sherman because a boat captain is introduced named Franklin. You are literally creating the names so I wish there had been differences so I could keep track.
Characters kept making insanely stupid decisions but never seemed to learn from them. They kept making body shots, not being cautious, and just going into ghost towns without a thought as to why they may be that way.
The character Brewster is so annoying. He’s always yelling and is rude to Denton, a character I really like, just because he’s Canadian? I don’t think he was the only character that did this but the r-word was used a couple times which I just don’t want to read in my books.
I do think I will continue my reread of the series at a later time to see where the storylines I really enjoy conclude in books 4 and 5.
This book is nostalgic to me for the period in my life where I was absolutely obsessed with zombies. There are good ideas here like the explanation between sprinters and shamblers. I also really liked the virologist and wished to spend more time with that group. Near the end of the book a character named Stiles is on a solo mission for supplies and I thought that the descriptions were engaging.
Now onto what I didn’t like and what dropped this from a 5-star (from my initial read) to a 3-star.
Many of the names were so similar!! I kept mixing up characters. There are four characters in the soldier group that are named Dewen, Decker, Denton, and Darin. I was constantly mixing them up. The general is Francis Sherman but fortunately is referred to as Sherman because a boat captain is introduced named Franklin. You are literally creating the names so I wish there had been differences so I could keep track.
Characters kept making insanely stupid decisions but never seemed to learn from them. They kept making body shots, not being cautious, and just going into ghost towns without a thought as to why they may be that way.
The character Brewster is so annoying. He’s always yelling and is rude to Denton, a character I really like, just because he’s Canadian? I don’t think he was the only character that did this but the r-word was used a couple times which I just don’t want to read in my books.
I do think I will continue my reread of the series at a later time to see where the storylines I really enjoy conclude in books 4 and 5.