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Review:
It all comes
down to this – Monster Planet. This book is the finale to David Wellington’s
zombie trilogy, and being a fan, and having read his vampire series, he has yet
to disappoint.
I wondered over to
Amazon to get the info for this book, and noticed that the reviews were all
over the board. I will admit it – this isn’t your traditional zombie series.
There are some readers that hardcore when it comes to monsters, and don’t care
to deviate from the hardened fast rules of what each monster is supposed to be.
If you like your zombies slow, stumbling, and mindless, then this story might
not be for you. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of your standard zombies
in this series, but the author adds so much more to the walking dead that it
makes it that much more terrifying for the living and the dead.
“What can be so
terrifying for the dead besides a bullet to the head?” you ask. How about the
dead that can think? Zombies that are so smart, that they possess a dark magic
that can bring the end of the world as we know it. The writer refers to them as
‘lich’, and they battle centuries-old ghosts that inhabit zombie bodies, and
mummies that have reanimated without the slightest yearning for human flesh.
In the first
book we found one of these lich following orders of a ghost to destroy mankind.
It is set six weeks after the zombie epidemic where ten percent of the
population is the undead. The lich, Gary, rebels with his own intentions in
mind – farming humans.
The second book
takes us back the beginning of the outbreak. Nilla finds herself dead, without
any previous memories of herself. She follows her inner direction to head west
but ends up finding the source of the infection.
Monster Planet,
the finale, brings back all the key players to finish the story. A war is being
waged between the living and the dead, between those who want to rebuild the
world, and those who want to end it all, and don’t assume that you know which
side wants what outcome.
From the book:
It was the last, the hope, that made her
despair. It looked like the others had been treated to the same act she had –
the kindly guide leading them on a tour of what must look like paradise on
earth. To many of these people the idea of a safe place where the dead were
kept at bay and where there was a little something to eat had long ago faded
from possibility. They had been hiding, hiding for years in fallout shelters or
hardened public buildings, eating when and what they could, resorting to whatever
it took to stay alive – Ayaan knew that many of them could tell her what human
flesh tasted like. They had been cold and hungry and alone for over a decade.
When the Tsarevich’s troops dug them out of their holes it must have felt like
inevitable doom descending. What little fight or spark of anger left to them
had been shaken out on the long, horrible journey in the cages. Now they were
brought to this safe, clean place and told lies about apple trees. Their brains
no longer knew how to process bullshit.
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David Wellington
does a wonderful job of writing in third person. I’ve always been biased to
first person POV, but his books seem to suck me in, and I forget about how the
story is being told. I was pleasantly shocked to find characters from this vampire
series hidden within his zombie trilogy. He brings the two series together to
give you a feeling that his world, is all one world. I look forward to sinking
my teeth into his werewolf series.
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