Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
8601400650028
ASIN: B005GNJ58O
Publish date: 2010-10-26
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
Survival,
Adult,
Thriller,
Horror,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Zombies
Series: Rise Again (#1)
Ah, zombies and survivalism. A topic near and dear to my heart. I gravitate towards the genre like a chocoholic towards the candy section at the convenience store (who, me?). Yet I am frequently disappointed on both fronts. Searching for rich texture, a smooth taste, the essence of flavor, I often ...
I probably would have given it 3.5 stars but I rolled back because I didn't like it enough for 4. What I really liked was that it was gory and violent and that the main character was a bad ass woman Marine. I have a soft spot for bad ass women Marines...
I probably would have given it 3.5 stars but I rolled back because I didn't like it enough for 4. What I really liked was that it was gory and violent and that the main character was a bad ass woman Marine. I have a soft spot for bad ass women Marines...
This book contained everything I like in a zombie story, strong characters, realistic dialogue and action that kept me on the edge of my seat. You can tell the author works with the visual medium as the book was easily imagined and I could easily see this being a better version of TV's walking dead....
The horror genre and its close cousin, the horror film, has always been susceptible to fads. In the 50s, it was the atomic holocaust and its mutant monsters. in the 60s and 70s, thanks to Robert Bloch's Psycho, it was serial killers. For the 70s on, Vampires ruled with its evil nephew the paranormal...