Audiobook3-1/2 starsI liked the beginning and the end but the middle was bogged down by torture seemingly with a smile that went on way too long. But taking in the beginning, some of the middle, and the ending, the book was really good. The narrator David Marantz did a great job.
The Raising of Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory I sat on this review for weeks, mostly because it isn’t easy for me to form, let alone articulate, a coherent opinion about Stony Mayhall, and it’s all the more difficult to do so without spoilers. So here’s my best shot, before the book becomes a dim ...
Stony was born into the world not knowing really who or what he was. It was like he was an Etch A Sketch that had been drawn upon and then shaken. In his super hero alter ego he was “The Unstoppable.” That may be truer than he could ever realize because The Big Bite is on the horizon and Stony and h...
Goddammit, people. I don't want to read zombie books. I'm not a huge fan of zombie cinema (I've seen two Romero movies, and that's about it.) I don't read horror. I like to sleep, and I'm far too sensitive to such things! (Although it's easier to let go of when it's the written word instead of the s...
This book, oh yes. You must read this book. Is it my favorite book of all time? No, but damn did I appreciate it wholeheartedly. And I'm not even a zombie fan. I loved the voice, the allegory, the characters, the world, really pretty much everything. This book was one of those rare reads that sucked...
2.5/5Well, this was different. The content, ambitious with the zombies, 'the differently living.' Where was the blood? The gore? Or even the hero/heroine I’d root for? Instead of the latter, first I got something to gawk at, then I got something(s) to mull over. It’s definitely different. A whole al...
At first, this novel begins like The Waltons meets The Walking Dead. It's a clever quarter of a novel that introduces our hero Stony Mayhall as a zombie infant that does something no other zombie does...grow up. The setting is interesting too. It begins in 1968 in an alternate reality that has witne...
First off, I have to admit that this book wasn't quite what I had expected when I picked it up. I was picturing it being more about the difficulties of raising a zombie child, when in fact we only spend about fifty pages on Stony's youth, before we move into his adulthood and the years leading up to...
I was talking with my husband the other day about Ragnarok, the Norse Armageddon, and kind of jokingly saying it was the first alt-history. Ragnarok is this really specific telling of the last days of the Norse Gods, a catalog of who will kill whom and how. It's understood to be told in the future t...
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