What’s Waking The Zed About?
Waking The Zed is also included in the novel: The Twice Dead. Get more of the true Zombie Apocalypse! Will showing up for work on the day that her employer attempts to revive the company’s frozen “clients” be a mistake that Pam Stone will not even live to regret?
Pam only wants to help the living, but she truly believes that the frozen bodies at Future Faith Cryonics are dead!
Now Dr. Ada Klein, the head of Future Faith, believes she can actually fulfill the contract and revive her frozen clients. Pam despises her boss, but does not sure if the older scientist is simply addled or really dangerous.
Waking the Zed is a complete 40K+ word novella which contains zombies, some scenes of fairly graphic gore, and all the good stuff you would expect from a zombie apocalypse book. Except for the topic-related ZA war gore, and a couple of mild curse words, the story is family friendly and suitable for mature teenagers, young adults, and adults. It falls into the genres of horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy. This novella is included in the novel The Twice Dead.
Our Waking The Zed Review
ML Katz poses the question, if you could do away with death would you? Her character Dr. Ada Klein absolutely plans to and won’t let anything stand in her way. A brilliant doctor who has made millions off of past research has since started Future Faith Cryonics.
It’s goal?
To freeze the wealthy who are sick or dying until a cure for their disease or death itself can be found.
Enter Pam. She’s the main character and is an intern at Future Faith. While working here will look amazing on her resume she hates everything about her job. Dr. Ada Klein is demanding and disrespectful and on top of that she got into medicine to help the living, not babysit the dead. For all intents and purposes that is exactly what she’s doing as she monitors cryogenics capsules.
Boring? Not so much when the night she plans on quitting her boss storms in and tells her to help monitor a patient. A patient? That’s right. Ada believes she has discovered the cure for death and is ready to find out.
I’m sure you can see where this is going but if not I’ll spell it out to you. Things go wrong. Horribly horribly wrong. Her cure for death is in all actuality the birth of the zombie virus. Pam, Ada, and another are all able to escape the hordes of undead and barely make it to a safe room. From there Ada calls her contacts at the military who come to clean up her mess.
They don’t do the best of jobs.
While most of the zombies are taken care of Ada and a few infected are brought back to the military base. A quarantine is attempted but fails as no one believes the extent of what is happening.
This novella gets my one complaint I always have for well written novellas. It’s too short. I’d love to know more of what happens in the world and find out of they are able to contain the spread of the infection or if the world as we know it is at an end. There is some solid character development, plot, and pacing in this one.
A quick read but a good one and I highly support picking this one up!
Where can you get Waking The Zed?
Waking the Zed is available on Amazon.
