Category: Random

Zombie Vampires

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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.

Offline bugs

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The path to Makedonia hut is marked with QR codes. Somehow, the authors of these brand new signs managed to create trial QR codes and they no longer work.

So, for the years to come, tourists will scan these to see spam. At least they point in the right direction.

Lorna Shore Tour

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This is like a concert by baby Metallica and baby Iron Maiden. Shadow of Intent are less known but still a great Deathcore band. I’ve encountered some of the other groups on the tour but not super familiar with them. They also make sounds that don’t sound like voices and have very fast drums.

What would you do?

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A single baby shoe on the sidewalk.

I’ve been the parent searching for the tiny shoe in the past. I think the best strategy when seeing a tiny shoe is to not touch it, it increases the chance that it’s found compared to if you put it on a visible place. I’ve managed to find the lost shoe several hours after it was lost but this one time a Good Samaritan put it on top of an anti-parking bollard – I had to walk back and forth to the store two or three times because I didn’t expect it to be there.

While wondering what to do, a mom showed up and found it.