by Patrick Freivald | Apr 18, 2012 | Book Reviews, Reviews
[As a complete opposite to our first The Last Mailman Review this one takes the opposite view.] Kevin J. Burke’s The Last Mailman is a journey through postapocalyptic America in the search for a cure for zombism. Four years after the zombie apocalypse, DJ Haddox...
by J.R. Jackson | Apr 16, 2012 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Carnage Road by Gregory Lamberson takes a somewhat different slant on the zombie/undead genre. The story opens with a small outlaw biker gang on a shopping trip after the world has been infested with zombies. What makes this novel appealing is that the characters are...
by Patrick Freivald | Apr 13, 2012 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Zombies! Superheroes! Zombie superheroes! Peter Clines’s Ex-Heroes melds two well-worn and well-loved genres into a single setting that will be familiar to fans of either. When the world is overrun by hordes of zombies, it’s up to the superheroes of Los...
by Chip Fehd | Apr 3, 2012 | Book Reviews, Reviews
In Lucky Stiff by Tonia Brown – Peter, our hero, is kind of a loser. Dying during a spring break drug overdose, as losers sometimes do, his panicked and not-too bright friends bring him to a backwoods Voodoo Mistress, who then resurrects him into the world’s...
by J.R. Jackson | Apr 2, 2012 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Plague Town by Dana Fredsti is set in a small college town in Northern California. The story centers on Ashley Parker, a college student who is recovering from Walker’s. Walker’s is the name of the flu that is sweeping the town and its inhabitants. What sets this...
by J.R. Jackson | Mar 26, 2012 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Hissers by Ryan C. Thomas is another take on the zombie genre. This is not a bad thing at all. The premise is that a special military project designed to increase a soldier’s ability using a chemical cocktail that contains snake venom but has some adverse effects....