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Title: Apocalypse End : Reign of the Dead by Len Barnhart ISBN: 0-595-27165-0 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A decent sequel to a great book
Comment: Apocalypse End: Reign of the Dead picks up about a year after where Reign of the Dead left off. Knowing now that the entire world has been completely overrun with the walking dead, the survivors have banded together in secure pockets elsewhere in the world. The main group of heroes remains in the military research lab, but a transmission and signs of life from an island off the North Carolina coastline convinces Jim Workman and his friends to search for more survivors. What they don't know is that there are now other vile beasts to worry about other than zombies; a huge para-military group in the Southern United States, comprised of southern state militias and violent hate groups who unfortunately managed to survive the initial wave of terror. Now, the survivors must not only deal with their flesh-eating enemies, but also cunning humans armed to the teeth, with aspirations for taking over what remains of the world.
This book is not quite as good as the first. While it maintains the sense of urgency, horror and terror that the first book had, this sequel seems a bit rushed. The zombies almost seem to take a back seat to the hate-mongering militia group. There are also much more noticeable grammatical errors in this intallment. Where the first book had a few here and there that you would have to struggle to notice, this book is almost overrun with errors.
Despite those gripes, I did enjoy this book very much. The life or death situations and suspense kept me reading all the way through. I wasn't as determined to plow through this book as I was the first one, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly. The Reign of the Dead series is almost frighteningly realistic in its delivery, would a situation like this, however unlikely, ever occur. When I finished this book, I was generally happy to have read it. It is definitely not one of the best books i've read, but it was a great deviation from the norm. I would love to read another book like this.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you love the genre, you'll like this book.
Comment: Mr. Barnhart's writing has improved considerably with this sequel to "Reign of the Dead". I really like that Barnhart sets his stories in the world created by George Romero; many fans of Romero's Dead trilogy think it would make for a great television series (one that would air on HBO or Showtime with all it's horror and gore intact), and Barnhart's stories fit nicely into that kind of presentation. It's Romero's apocalypse, but here are the stories of some of the other survivors, in different parts of the country. A fun read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Decent zombie horror, just fair horror
Comment: I read Len's Reign of the Dead and was surprised how much I liked it. When Apocalypse End came out, I tried reading it and it didn't keep my interest.
It is good zombie horror, but only because most of the genre isn't very good. Skipp and Spector put out 2 volumes (Books of the Dead 1 and 2:Still Dead) and those had some pretty good stories. The third volume was apparently cancelled due to licensing concerns (I had an email conversation with Poppy Z. Brite two years ago who said she wrote a story for it and it promptly disappeared) but most of the literature that is zombie horror is dreck.
This is not dreck, its a pretty good storyline that tags in perfectly with Romero's zombie future. However, the medium itself (literature vs. film) is visual and books don't convey the same sense of horror. ...In fact, you find yourself suspending disbelief a lot. P>This book is good zombie horror, but only fair horror in general. I would have given it a 3.5 star rating, but not an option here so ROTD:AE gets a 4.
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Title: The Dead by Mark E. Rogers ISBN: 0741405563 Publisher: Buy Books on the web.com Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks ISBN: 1400049628 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Rising by Brian Keene ISBN: 0843952016 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth by Vince Churchill ISBN: 1591130409 Publisher: Booklocker.com Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Project Phoenix : Dead Rising by Darrin B. Patterson ISBN: 0595100082 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 19 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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