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R S Merritt

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Ever since George Romero brought us "the living dead" nightmare, zombies have been a phenomenon all their own. Stories tend to boil down to the same thing - visceral battles where the living try to stay alive and attempts to somehow outwit the witless. An effective zombie story passes the terror to the reader through effective development of the characters. Dialog between the characters is an essential tool for this sort of character development and here is where Merritt fails. The story is almost entirely a narrative, such as something composed by an omniscient observer writing well after the events took place. The endless descriptions of battles with the zombies are reminiscent of observations made of someone playing a video game killing zombies. There is no sense of terror, no sense of doom. When characters die, it's almost a welcome break from the routine zombie bashing.

I think this novel is closer to becoming a satire of the zombie genre than a ground-breaking participant. Characters in the story even admit that tactics learned from zombie movies appear to be effective here, there is no real attempt at originality. Fast zombies or slow zombies? Hell, why not both?

The end of the book might not seem so odd if the second book was readily available to continue the story. The narrative would alternately follow several groups of survivors, and the end of this novel felt like the author wrote a bunch of chapters and just decided to cut the story at an arbitrary point without crafting a proper ending that gets readers intrigued for the next book.
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JeffV | Jul 5, 2019 |

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