by Stefan Petrucha
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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