Stephen Jones
Paperback | Pages: 478 pages Rating: 3.71 | 1926 Users | 201 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Zombie Apocalypse! |
| ISBN: | 1849013039 (ISBN13: 9781849013031) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Zombie Apocalypse! #1 |
| Characters: | Zombies |
| Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology (2011) |
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In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others.'The Death' soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.
Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination.
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| Title | : | Zombie Apocalypse! (Zombie Apocalypse! #1) |
| Author | : | Stephen Jones |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 478 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Constable & Robinson |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Fiction. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 1926 Users | 201 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Zombie Apocalypse! (Zombie Apocalypse! #1)
This book caught me, pleasantly by surprise. I enjoy the zombie genre (books, comics & films) but I have come across films and novels that add nothing and feel like more of the same. Not this book as it manages to avoid being 'just another entry' while being thrilling and just good fun to read. It was created by several authors and each separate section reads and feels like a separate short horror story and is just as effective on it's own but manages to add more to the world containedBleak and sad. That's the words I would use to describe this book about the zombie apocalypse. I guess you are asking, "Well, it is a zombie novel. What were you expecting?" That's a fair question, and, truthfully, I think I was expecting there to be some glimmer of hope and optimism. Silly me! Not that the whole doom and gloom bleakness of the book makes the book any less readable. This book is not so much scary but sad. Told over the course of several months, numerous characters through the
This book is one of the best I've read this year so far, and I completely fell in love with it as soon as I started reading it. Highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who likes zombies and horror.
Lured in by the cool cover, I was expecting a zombiefest worthy of a read. I was very disappointed. This book is trying so hard to a UK version of 'World War Z' and it doesn't even get close. I found myself bored when reading. BORED! When reading a book about Zombies! What!? The way the zombies came into being is good, I can go with that. Having it written by different authors, is an interesting idea but doesn't quite work. It feels all over the place. And why do some zombies act well, zombie
I love apocalyptic stories in general and zombies in particular. They scare the crap out of me, but I love every Romero film, have been reading the Walking Dead since 2006, and will dump friends and disown relatives in order to watch a new episode of AMC's Walking Dead. Seriously. When the new season starts, just don't f***ing bother me or try to get a hold of me during air time.Zombie novels are like sex and pizza.Even when they're bad, they're still kind of good.With some exceptions, and this
This is a different kind of Zombie book or a different kind of book full stop. There are no page numbers, no chapters and no specific narrator. The whole story is told through e-mails, blogs, diary entries, BMC memos, medical reports and newspaper articles sequenced by date. Some writers pop up over several days with other peoples records from those days interspersed. Very unique and clever chronicle of the zombie apocalypse. For those who have spent time in UK you are at an advantage because
What I find most interesting about this book is the reactions and reviews. People tweeting and texting as the zombies are eating them? Totally likely. People who doubt this honestly need to spend one day in a classroom with the youth of today to realise that yes, they compulsively tweet, text, and blog every mundane thought and action they have. And I'd like to see them deny the youth their "right" to do it, too. Anyway, I really enjoyed the format. The whole story told via several mediums and
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