Of course, there has to be a book about zombie vampires.
I’ve been reading books about zombies, necromancers, and undead creatures the whole year. I picked the Blood of Eden series by Julie Kagawa because I was at a book signing and this series looked pretty. I had no idea it’s about zombie vampires but here we are. My undead books year continues.
The world ended because a virus turned most people into immortal zombie vampires. Durable but not very smart. Allison will try to survive in this hostile environment and preserve a friend here or there. She’ll get herself into a conspiracy of some kind that we will probably uncover in book 3.
The zombie dynamic is about as realistic as the zombie fungus in “The Girl with All the Gifts”. Zombies roam outside of the walled cities, hunting for people. People almost never go out to be eaten. I believe the zombies in a world like that could not last for a hundred years with no humans to renew their ranks and would just die out from hunger. The same applies to the non-zombie vampires, the math doesn’t add up. The vampire lords are very carnivorous and kill so many people that the human race should’ve ended long before the zombies.
Overall, the book is not plausible – if a zombie apocalypse happens, it won’t happen this way. Maybe some other way. Despite that, I liked it and read it quickly. Looking forward to reading the next part. I’d say it was a solid 4*/5.
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I guess you didn’t watch Walking Dead? Similar plot.
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Nope, I’m new to the world of zombies, necromancers, vampires and such. Also, I prefer reading books than watching TV.
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It was very popular in North America when it was running.
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Books=100%. TV=less
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I read 5-10 books/month and probably watch 2-3 episodes of TV shows per month on average. Not 100% books but getting there 🙂
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That’s awesome. I turned off the cable TV but I still watch a lot of old shows and movies. I hate commercials but I think there’s good writing in lots of things that I can learn from, especially old movies; the way they tell a story. I’m not reading a lot right now but I am writing very consistently, and thank you for reading. My Kindle has James Michener’s Hawaii on it which I’m reading to my wife when we take long drives and Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry because I like the way he does female characters and that’s what I’m working with for Mansfield, Ohio. Keep reading, Veselin!
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Reading more made me sensitive to how female characters are portrayed by male authors and the opposite. This is one of the reasons I started lowering the ratings of series I previously loved like Jack Reacher, or Harry Bosch.
I’m reading Nightshade by Michael Connelly atm and the detective’s girlfriend is described as a piece of furniture. The book won’t get more than 3/5 even if it comes with an incredible plot twist at the end. When you read a book or two per month you may not notice but if you switch from the Frieda Klein series where the characters have souls to Connelly’s Nightshade and you want to DNF the second.
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I think characters and getting the reader to respond to and buy into them is the number one priority in fiction. If you start liking the characters, you’re hooked. I don’t know that all writers can create both compelling male and female characters, but I do think it’s important to try.
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