A review by hlizmarie
Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry

4.0

The adrenaline rush this series creates is just off the charts. I tried to describe the genre of this series to my husband last night and I said it's action. Then I paused and said well it's kind of horror too. At that point I got caught up in my own head trying to figure out how to really describe it. I ended up throwing my hands up and saying it's a whole bunch of things but basically it's amazing. Seeing all of the pathogens and the history of the DMS come back to bite it in the ass was revisiting a horrible, painful past. I thought the plot of this one forced me to suspend disbelief a bit more than usual but I gamely went along. I think the inherent terror I get with this series is the possibility, the plausibility, of "what if". What if someone did these things? It's far too easy to believe there's a disenfranchised part of the population who would be easy to manipulate into acting in depraved ways under the right circumstances and leadership. It's far too easy to imagine corruption at the top levels of government. It's far too easy to imagine organizations and governments working to create pathogens and financing scientific feats of genius and evil which could take out millions in the wrong hands. This may not be my favorite book in the series, Patient Zero holds that title, but it never disappointed. At times I wanted to put it down to take a breath but still kept turning pages as fast as I could read. This is a series where I buy and read each new book the week it comes out. Wouldn't miss it!