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the_wanlorn) wrote2008-12-21 08:22 pm
the_wanlorn) wrote2008-12-21 08:22 pm
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Book Review: Empire, by David Dunwoody
I just finished EMPIRE by David Dunwoody. This is what I expect from all zombie books. A rollicking good adventure with death and destruction and chaos and hilarity.
I loved this book. I loved how a sympathetic character - Weissman - turned out to be the rapist. I love that Death was an actual character. I love that the survivors didn't all survive.
I love that Death adopts a little girl, sort of. That, I've discovered, is one of my fiction kinks. Give me Death adopting a human, and I will fall in love with your book.
I love that there are regular people and crazy people and different kinds of zombies and I love that it seems like this is just one book in a bigger story.
Of course, it had its problems. POV shifts weren't all that clearly marked, so it'd take a paragraph or two to figure out that there was a shift. There were some scenes that made me cringe at the phrasing in them, and some scenes that needed to be elaborated more.
But overall, this was a superb zombie novel, so awesome that I finished it in a day and I'd read the fuck out of it again.
I loved this book. I loved how a sympathetic character - Weissman - turned out to be the rapist. I love that Death was an actual character. I love that the survivors didn't all survive.
I love that Death adopts a little girl, sort of. That, I've discovered, is one of my fiction kinks. Give me Death adopting a human, and I will fall in love with your book.
I love that there are regular people and crazy people and different kinds of zombies and I love that it seems like this is just one book in a bigger story.
Of course, it had its problems. POV shifts weren't all that clearly marked, so it'd take a paragraph or two to figure out that there was a shift. There were some scenes that made me cringe at the phrasing in them, and some scenes that needed to be elaborated more.
But overall, this was a superb zombie novel, so awesome that I finished it in a day and I'd read the fuck out of it again.
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