Z.A. Recht
Paperback | Pages: 292 pages Rating: 3.83 | 7294 Users | 355 Reviews
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| Title | : | Plague of the Dead (Morningstar Strain #1) |
| Author | : | Z.A. Recht |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 292 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2006 by Permuted Press (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Science Fiction |
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The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic. In one fell swoop, the necessities of life become much more basic. Gone are petty everyday concerns. Gone are the amenities of civilized life. Yet a single law of nature remains: Live, or die. Kill, or be killed. On one side of the world, a battle-hardened General surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash Private, and dozens of refugees, all are his responsibility-all thousands of miles from home. Back in the United States, an Army Colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public... The Morningstar Saga has begun.Describe Books Toward Plague of the Dead (Morningstar Strain #1)
| Original Title: | Plague of the Dead |
| ISBN: | 0978970705 (ISBN13: 9780978970703) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Morningstar Strain #1 |
Rating Regarding Books Plague of the Dead (Morningstar Strain #1)
Ratings: 3.83 From 7294 Users | 355 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books Plague of the Dead (Morningstar Strain #1)
The writing style is just terrible and uninspired. The mechanism for character and story development is based entirely on convenience. The plot is laborious.In summary this book is a perfect example of genre exploitation.Thumb if you agree.I swear, as I was reading this, that Ive read it before (2007ish?). Its so familiar! Anyway...Zombie book, mostly from the perspective of military personnel. A decent idea, but, not my overall favorite. If I were more interested in military perhaps Id had been able to get in to the book more. I found myself bored with the military jargon and annoyed with the macho man feel. The characters were all very basic, the military men were so similar, I couldnt remember who was who or why I should be
3.5 StarsPlague of the Dead is such a fun book - if you can call the downfall of mankind fun, which I can as it's just fiction... This book has all the elements I love in zombie fiction; lots of zombies, great characters and an absorbing storyline.The writing is very smooth - nice and easy to read, great description and imagination. Recht also uses both types of zombie: the fast '28 Days Later' kind, and the shuffling, slow 'Night of the Living Dead' kind. And there are lots of them, thousands
OK ... so, it was a nice try. The explanation for why there are fast AND slow zombies was GREAT. But unfortunately, not a whole lot else has great merit. The characters are all cookie-cutter. Every "military" character is the same as the next - and they use A LOT of cheesy jargon like "FUBAR" and "SNAFU" constantly.. making it seem like the author did military research by watching too many movies. Also - some of the pop-culture references seem very out of place such as "it looked like somewhere
Though it starts promisingly enough, Z. A. Recht's Plague of the Dead quickly descends into standard zombie apocalyptic territory as the U.S. makes every effort to curtail the spread of a virus on the African continent that turns people into slobbering rage-filled monsters, and then once the hosts are dead, returns them to life as shambling zombies, with both forms programmed to do nothing more than spread the virus. This best of both worlds approach (think George Romero and 28 Days Later) is
I really don't want to give this book any lower than a two, for I know the author did a decent job at trying to put it together. Unfortunately, I could not finish it, for it has not been completed nor edited correctly.I know a little bit about the military, and I will say a bit more research is needed before this book could be considered complete. Problems with writing are also evident in a manuscript with a good plot as well as well thought out explanations, but many writing errors abound.Z. A.
Ok, I know I just resolved not to read any more bad zombie books, but a friend had already loaned this one to me, so it doesn't count.There's a pattern that emerges when an apocalyptic story is told by someone with a military backgroundat least it has in the books I've read. The mild-mannered ex-soldier, wanting nothing more than to settle down and enjoy his life as a private citizen, is forced to rely on his superior training and personal weaponry when civilization implodes. (Clueless civvies
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