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A review by oddfigg
Rabid Heart by Jeremy Wagner
4.0
A high-octane zombie tale that reads like a Grindhouse movie, this book has heart, humor, plenty of horror, and a badass heroine.
Rabid Heart is the type of horror story that you’ll know almost immediately if you’re going to resonate with or not. It has no pretensions, give zero you-know-whats, and comes out of the gate swinging with all its got.
The story follows Rhonda, who in the post-apcoalypic world has become a gun-toting military girl. But she finds her zombified fiance while looking for supplies and just can’t leave him behind! What follows is their truly mapcap, often strange, and sometimes gross adventure. Rhonda doesn’t really know what’s going to happen in the future (or even in the next ten minutes) but she’s committed to Brad and just wants to be with him, no matter what.
The lawless world is not such a great place though, and there is trouble coming for Rhonda.
Reading this, I just let go and allowed it to take me on its crazy ride. It might not be a perfect narrative, but it is a hell of a lot of fun I just have to suspend my disbelief, sink into the heightened reality of the story, and enjoy the crap out of it.
I am not a huge zombie fan, but I do like to see something different and unique done with this (very played out) genre, and I think Rabid Heart is a fun example of this.
The only thing that I got stuck on was how the characters called the zombies “Cujos”—I just couldn’t get over the weirdness of repurposing the rabid dog from King’s book this way and found it distracting throughout. Zombies are zombies, and I think we’re mostly all OK with that at this point.
This was a Nightworms February 2019 read!
Rabid Heart is the type of horror story that you’ll know almost immediately if you’re going to resonate with or not. It has no pretensions, give zero you-know-whats, and comes out of the gate swinging with all its got.
The story follows Rhonda, who in the post-apcoalypic world has become a gun-toting military girl. But she finds her zombified fiance while looking for supplies and just can’t leave him behind! What follows is their truly mapcap, often strange, and sometimes gross adventure. Rhonda doesn’t really know what’s going to happen in the future (or even in the next ten minutes) but she’s committed to Brad and just wants to be with him, no matter what.
The lawless world is not such a great place though, and there is trouble coming for Rhonda.
Reading this, I just let go and allowed it to take me on its crazy ride. It might not be a perfect narrative, but it is a hell of a lot of fun I just have to suspend my disbelief, sink into the heightened reality of the story, and enjoy the crap out of it.
I am not a huge zombie fan, but I do like to see something different and unique done with this (very played out) genre, and I think Rabid Heart is a fun example of this.
The only thing that I got stuck on was how the characters called the zombies “Cujos”—I just couldn’t get over the weirdness of repurposing the rabid dog from King’s book this way and found it distracting throughout. Zombies are zombies, and I think we’re mostly all OK with that at this point.
This was a Nightworms February 2019 read!