Jack J. Lee

This book, I will have to say, surprised the life out of me. The premise was absolutely terrible--a combination vampire and zombie novel, get real, right? No. The unique approach, albeit very far-fetched and out there, was enough to draw me into the book. The storyline was very intriguing, with zombies, as zombies go, killing off the stupid and those not able to adapt quickly, and then vampires pick off the ones that survive. The creation was very interesting.

The humans, the characters whose stories you follow, were connectable. I liked how Lee jumped from chapter to chapter, almost making it a diary type of book about the characters who have to live in this hell. Some of the characters seem almost too perfect, but I think that Lee's goal was to do that. The one very interesting part, which kind of irritated me at first, was how focused he was on Mormons and LDS. Then I realized, the story did set place in Utah, and the Mormoms, as he says in the book, are very prepared for emergency situations. It was surprising, as I don't normally like books that involve religion. All in all, this book was a very quick read, and I can guarantee i'll be picking up his next one!… (mehr)

Death by Revelation by Jack J. Lee is the second book in the Sustainable Earth series. If you have not read the first book, the back story is that aliens create zombies & vampires to cull the human race when they see that humans are irrevocably damaging the earth.

The story in the second book takes place shortly after the first one ended. Like the first book, the story takes the view points of several isolated survivors, most from the original story, but many new personalities are introduced as the original band of survivors strike out to identify and help other bands of survivors.

I did not enjoy this book as much as the first, primarily because I disliked a new character who dominates the story. The story revolves around a conflict that the original group has with a newly-discovered, survivalist, polygamist Mormon sect, and less upon fighting the vampires & zombies. I enjoyed the action more when the monsters were the enemies, not the humans, though I agree with the author that humans would certainly be part of the problem in an survival scenario.

Still, Death by Revelation takes s a refreshingly different perspective on the zombie apocalypse story, and is well worth reading. Just make sure you read the first book as well!… (mehr)