David Dunwoody

This is what I expect from all zombie books. A rollicking good adventure with death and destruction and chaos and hilarity.

I loved this book. I loved how a sympathetic character - Weissman - turned out to be the rapist. I love that Death was an actual character. I love that the survivors didn't all survive.

I love that Death adopts a little girl, sort of. That, I've discovered, is one of my fiction kinks. Give me Death adopting a human, and I will fall in love with your book.

I love that there are regular people and crazy people and different kinds of zombies and I love that it seems like this is just one book in a bigger story.

Of course, it had its problems. POV shifts weren't all that clearly marked, so it'd take a paragraph or two to figure out that there was a shift. There were some scenes that made me cringe at the phrasing in them, and some scenes that needed to be elaborated more.

But overall, this was a superb zombie novel, so awesome that I finished it in a day and I'd read the fuck out of it again.… (más)

This was a disappointing novel. The premise is unique with Death coming to Earth to fight against the undead. However, that's not necessarily what happened. 90% of the book follows a group of human survivors, none of whom I cared about since not a lot of background was given to them. With Death finally does make more than a 2-page appearance, he's not really Death anymore.

If this were more than a two-book series, I would quit right now, but since there is only one more novel, I will finish it. My recommendation for others is to avoid it.… (más)

This book was better than the first. It spent more time with Death a.k.a. Adam, which is good since the premise of the series revolved around him. The action scenes are written very well, and the second half of the book is glorious mayhem.

However, the biggest problem I had is the story is too unfocused. There are a lot of good elements here, but not enough time is given developing them. The undead circus and the Omega could have been fleshed out more, and other elements like the British plane, the rat king, and the tentacle creature were just one and done.

If you want to read a good zombie story with an interesting concept, I would recommend the Ex-Heroes series over this.… (más)