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CarlAlves
CarlAlves rated it 11 years ago
After Death starts off with a cool premise, what happens after a person dies. Sometimes the stories occur immediately after death, sometimes it’s during a much longer time line. There is a mix of big name horror authors and lesser known ones, and overall a really good flow to the anthology. One of t...
The Surly Dragon
The Surly Dragon rated it 11 years ago
Perhaps it is just me, maybe I have read one too many zombie books (although I don't think so), but this was just more zombie filler. Nothing new, some action but nothing exciting. Too routine, it was far to easy to know that a character was not going to make it long before they got swarmed by a p...
runner
runner rated it 11 years ago
Dog Days/Deadly Passage as the name implies is a combination of two short books in one easily read volume. The first is by far the superior and is a great coming of age novella by Joe McKinney.Mark Eckert becomes involved in a brutal murder hunt with a killer who is growing in strenth and seems to b...
Book Professor
Book Professor rated it 11 years ago
How does the pacing of the story feel? When we first received the book, some of us at the book club were expecting for the some of the stories to be slow or uninteresting. We were wrong. Every story is able to captivate the reader even if it doesn't change his or her perception about death. Why woul...
The Reading Cat
The Reading Cat rated it 11 years ago
What were the main relationships explored in this book? If someone commits suicide, society's first reaction is that the person was selfish. There is blame and in the case where death comes naturally no matter how old the person is, the sadness is still there. In some ways, this book is a reaction ...
runner
runner rated it 12 years ago
What a great read that cuts across the crime and horror genres but leans more towards horror as we race towards an exciting conclusion! We live the cop life with Paul Henninger a rookie learning what it takes to live on the streets of San Antonia. Paul has had a trouble childhood and has been greatl...
Shiftyj1
Shiftyj1 rated it 12 years ago
A rookie San Antonio police officer with a twisted family history is transported back thru his life to find out it has all been a lie and there is a terrible evil that lurks just beneath the surface…and it’s starting to rise - It wants to claim him and it will destroy anything in its path to give hi...
11811
11811 rated it 12 years ago
An original, well executed horror premise loosely torn from the pages of Leviticus and parts of the Apocrypha. Highly recommended.
Intensely Focused
Intensely Focused rated it 12 years ago
The problems I have with the book are mostly character based. Shaw does everything he can to save those under his care and stresses the importance of family. But then at the end he basically abandons them. I also don't think his reason for wanting to get Eleanor at the end felt right. I would get hi...
Michaelbrent Collings
Michaelbrent Collings rated it 12 years ago
A zombie story that knows what zombie stories should be about.This story is not about zombies. It's not about blood and guts, it's not even about a devastating set of storms that flood southern Texas and reshape the Gulf of Mexico seaboard. It HAS all those things, but it isn't ABOUT them.What it is...
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