The Rising
Brian Keene again! In summary: a fun book with a disappointing ending. I like closure in my novels and this one doesn’t really deliver. You’re sort of meant to make up your own mind about what happened which is OK but on some level it feels like a cop out. My hope is that we get a little more of this story in the following novel, “City of the Dead”, which I’ll be getting to after my current book.
The demons/zombies were great. It was nice to see them treated differently for once. Instead of mindless hordes of shuffling and decaying monsters we have shuffling and decaying monsters who can talk, think, scheme and operate machinery (think guns and cars). Some of the situations this creates are very memorable and made for some fun reading.
I think he spends a little too much time demonizing the armed forces but at the same time it turns them into a third force in the raging war and that works well. The ‘meat wagon’ was horrible to read about but it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that couldn’t happen in this situation. If it does nothing else, it makes you root for the Frankie character that much more.
I highly recommend this book to zombie fans who are looking for something a little different than the standard fare.
[...] book picks up where ‘The Rising’ left off and gives me the closure I was talking about in the previous review. I wasn’t really [...]