Dead Mann Walking (Hessius Mann #1)
Stefan Petrucha,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: HESSIUS MANN NOVEL 1, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) on 10-04-2011
Stefan Petrucha,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: HESSIUS MANN NOVEL 1, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) on 10-04-2011
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101544693 (1101544694)
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: Roc
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Urban Fantasy,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Noir,
Horror,
Zombies
Series: Hessius Mann (#1)
3.5 starsI liked Hessius a lot and this was a really enjoyable take on a hard boiled detective novel..albeit with an extremely 'dead' detective. Still I liked this atypical take on zombies very much and will probably return to Petrucha's next in the series.
It was an interesting take on zombies. The technology to reanimate people is invented and at first everyone who can afford it does it. It has a troubling effect on the death penalty because now if evidence later exonerates someone who was executed the state can simply bring the wrongfully convicte...
The word "noir" doesn't even begin to capture the dark, gritty world of DEAD MANN WALKING. Petrucha's zombies (called "chakz", a mangled version of the Spanish word for "jerky" because they dry out) deal with not just the decline of their flesh but with memory loss, their tissues drying out, and ro...
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