Wanton Hubris

Dead Sea

I read this book on the recommendation of some zombie lovers I know. The key words to getting me to try this one were : “zombie” and “whale”. Unfortunately the zombie whale only took up about 5 sentences of the book. Fortunately the rest of the book was pretty good.

The way the author writes zombies is fairly gruesome and he spares no effort in describing the horrific states in which we find most of the walking dead. Keene clearly loves zombies and it shows.

I found the choice of protagonist to be particularly interesting. A gay, black man. I haven’t seen that very often and it made for some situations and exchanges that you don’t normally see in horror books. At any rate, I really liked the main character and that was a large part of what drove me to finish the book.

Keene is an author who likes to explore the zombie situation in interesting ways. He focuses on questions like, “What would happen if animals could become zombies?”. I found that really refreshing and it made for some great description and scenery.

Oh zombie whale, I can only hope you get more ink devoted to you next time.