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A review by a_j_torres0
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
5.0
This is a Adult Horror/Zombie stand alone novel.
Book Cover: 1* - Now some might see this score as harsh, but honestly, this cover just doesn't do it for me. The cover is just a splotch of orange and red where the title takes up the whole thing. These covers are ones I would ignore and continue going past. I'm not sure what the cover should have been, but covers like these don't really attract me towards them unless they are recommended to me.
Summary/Tagline: 5* - I was very intrigued reading the summary. Not only is this not a story that takes place during a zombie apocalypse, it is several stories that take place after. The stories are told from almost all over the world from various people from youngest to old from Americans to South Korea. I was immediately hooked, and I was very aware of how different the movie is compared to the book so i was even more excited to read the book but disappointed at why it was changed so much.
Characters: 5* - Now, although we follow the interviewer(The Author), the entire book focuses on the people he meets. The people he meets are very diverse with terrifying experiences during a zombie apocalypse. We have experiences with just before, during, to just after the zombie outbreak. We get experiences from children that survived the apocalypse, politicians, astronauts, military personnels, regular civilians, etc. It was so fascinating reading each of these different stories that I didn't even think about wanting to read. To be honest, because of all these characters, I think this book should have been turned into a TV series, maybe a mini series, not an action movie, but hey, this is my opinion of course.
World Building: 3.5* - Hmm, now this is more of a character driven story than anything else so there wasn't much on the world, but I did get a lot of what was going on, what was being created to combat the zombie epidemic, and what was done after. It wasn't the focus, but I thought it was interesting what transpired after zombies rose up and started eating people, there is even ideas of why and how the zombie epidemic started but still have no idea as to a definitive proof of how it happened.
Story: 5* - As I stated earlier, we read many short stories from survivors of the zombie apocalypse. We start out with what some were doing just before or as the zombie epidemic started, to the epidemic getting worse, to being in the middle of a chaotic epidemic, to the people getting the courage to fight back, to winning the epidemic, but with huge consequences of not only their decisions made to the epidemic but to society as well. Society all over the world will no longer be the same and some countries got worse with a backwards ideology. I was actually getting angry towards the end lol.
Over All: 4.5* - I really liked this book. It was a wonderful change to all the zombie stories that are being pumped out almost on a monthly basis in all forms of media lol. I will highly recommend this book to those who want to read a zombie book that is different, like, very different. This book was a great and fascinating read and I firmly believe, after reading this, that WWZ should have been adapted into a TV series or mini series, not a movie.
Book Cover: 1* - Now some might see this score as harsh, but honestly, this cover just doesn't do it for me. The cover is just a splotch of orange and red where the title takes up the whole thing. These covers are ones I would ignore and continue going past. I'm not sure what the cover should have been, but covers like these don't really attract me towards them unless they are recommended to me.
Summary/Tagline: 5* - I was very intrigued reading the summary. Not only is this not a story that takes place during a zombie apocalypse, it is several stories that take place after. The stories are told from almost all over the world from various people from youngest to old from Americans to South Korea. I was immediately hooked, and I was very aware of how different the movie is compared to the book so i was even more excited to read the book but disappointed at why it was changed so much.
Characters: 5* - Now, although we follow the interviewer(The Author), the entire book focuses on the people he meets. The people he meets are very diverse with terrifying experiences during a zombie apocalypse. We have experiences with just before, during, to just after the zombie outbreak. We get experiences from children that survived the apocalypse, politicians, astronauts, military personnels, regular civilians, etc. It was so fascinating reading each of these different stories that I didn't even think about wanting to read. To be honest, because of all these characters, I think this book should have been turned into a TV series, maybe a mini series, not an action movie, but hey, this is my opinion of course.
World Building: 3.5* - Hmm, now this is more of a character driven story than anything else so there wasn't much on the world, but I did get a lot of what was going on, what was being created to combat the zombie epidemic, and what was done after. It wasn't the focus, but I thought it was interesting what transpired after zombies rose up and started eating people, there is even ideas of why and how the zombie epidemic started but still have no idea as to a definitive proof of how it happened.
Story: 5* - As I stated earlier, we read many short stories from survivors of the zombie apocalypse. We start out with what some were doing just before or as the zombie epidemic started, to the epidemic getting worse, to being in the middle of a chaotic epidemic, to the people getting the courage to fight back, to winning the epidemic, but with huge consequences of not only their decisions made to the epidemic but to society as well. Society all over the world will no longer be the same and some countries got worse with a backwards ideology. I was actually getting angry towards the end lol.
Over All: 4.5* - I really liked this book. It was a wonderful change to all the zombie stories that are being pumped out almost on a monthly basis in all forms of media lol. I will highly recommend this book to those who want to read a zombie book that is different, like, very different. This book was a great and fascinating read and I firmly believe, after reading this, that WWZ should have been adapted into a TV series or mini series, not a movie.