The Nation 02
The Zombie Plagues, no. 1
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4.0 • 44 Ratings
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- $2.99
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Publisher Description
Ethan, his face etched with the weariness of a thousand sleepless nights, hauled a dented bucket overflowing with salvaged canned goods. Each can, a tiny victory snatched from the jaws of starvation, represented another day survived in this ravaged world. He grunted with effort, his muscles protesting under the strain. The weight wasn’t just physical; it was the weight of their existence, a constant, oppressive burden. He was a steelworker once, his hands forged to shape metal into something useful, something strong. Now, his hands were blistered and calloused, repurposed for scavenging, for eking out a meager existence amidst the ruins.
Penny, perched atop their makeshift fortress – a stripped-down bus with its windows boarded up and its frame reinforced with scavenged metal – watched him with her usual quiet intensity. Her dark eyes, usually sparkling with a defiant glint, held a deeper shadow this morning, a reflection of the relentless struggle to stay alive. She was a pragmatist, a survivor through and through, her quiet strength a stark contrast to Ethan's simmering frustration.
Customer Reviews
Interesting Approach
Very solid read. I liked the atypical approach of zombies starting slow and gaining steam coupled with few survivors.
Redundant redundant
The book may be 758 pages, but in actuality, it's probably 300 pages of new story. It's more about an apocalypse of some sort than Zombies. Maybe the Zombie plague will be more prevalent in later issues, but I'll never know. This one book was enough. They tell the story, and then each and every character tells the same exact story from their point of view in a journal that each one is writing. YAWN. Like I said, very repetitive and SLOW. I found myself flipping past the journal pages just to get back to the story.
Needs editing, polishing
Entertaining and very quick read. There are lots of grammatical and spelling problems, parts where sentences are incomplete which can turn one off a bit as a reader if one doesn't know that this book is self published. That being said...
The story itself is intriguing. The idea of zombies being somewhat sentient isn't knew but compelling nonetheless. The conflicts represented can sometimes be hard to follow in terms of the description perhaps due to the starkness of the writing however it is still a good read.
I am going to purchase the next book to see where it goes.hopefully Mr. dell will evolve as a writer and flesh out his story.