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Loving Dead, The (2010)

by Amelia Beamer(Favorite Author)

2.84 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1441868348 (ISBN13: 9781441868343)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Brilliance Audio

series

The Loving Dead

review 1: I bought this book because I love Zombie books. I believe Max Brooks' World War Z is the finest Zombie book EVER written. Beamer had taken a completely original approach to the zombie apocalypse genre by having the virus passed through... um... intimate human contact. The saliva being what transmitted it, amongst the other key bodily fluids. This book is aptly described by me as 'zombie porn'. The problem I had was that for well over 100 pages I was kind of lost. I didn't really know who was who and why or what was going on. I think she tries to give the reader the sense of panic and disbelief but she did it too well. Funny part is the book became better with about 40 pages left in it (it became worse again in the last 20 but never mind). It is an odd sort of approa... morech to zombie lit and I give her points for creative originality. A touch smutty and the sexual violence *both implied and described* is a bit disquieting. The ending was a real stretch, even for a zombie fan like myself. It isn't what it could have been and it's a tough read although it doesn't take long. Can't really recommend it unless you are into what may be a new genre 'hardcore zombie porn'. Truly it only deserves 2.5 stars.
review 2: I went into this book knowing nothing. I did not know who wrote it, I did not know what the plot was outside of the synopsis you'd find on the back, and I did not know about it's praise or criticisms.It's just... there really are no words to describe how dull and uninspired it was. There're a ton of unbaked ideas, a by-the-books setting featuring an otherwise iconic locale (Bay Area), characters without personality, and to round it all out, writing that gives me the impression the author hated every second she had to put pen to paper, or finger to key.It's tropey and generic without an original idea or execution in sight and it plays out similar to a shelved movie script rather than an honest-to-goodness novel. It may sound like i'm being harsh, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend or even remain neutral about something so mediocre(and often down right atrocious) in a hugely over saturated genre. Even the whole premise brought forth by the title seemed like an afterthought, put in so there was at least a little something different from every other Zombie book.Shame it was executed so poorly. less

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