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Geeks Vs. Zombies (2012)

by Charlie Higson(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0141344245 (ISBN13: 9780141344249)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Puffin

review 1: I read this book first by mistake. It's actually a short story which ties in with a larger series of novels. As it happens, this wasn't a handicap, as the situation was made clear very quickly and without a huge info-dump: a group of kids have made themselves a safe place in the British Museum after a disease has killed most adults and left the rest as brainless, cannibalistic horrors (zombies, basically).The book is obviously aimed at kids or young adults, but doesn't shy away from using the kinds of everyday swear words that kids would know and use. Nor does it shy away from gore, with blood, pus and turds all present in quantity. It's the exuberance in this area which actually gives the book its charm (if that's the right word in the context).It's very well written... more. My first instinct upon discovering my mistake was to put it aside till I'd read the earlier books first, but I didn't want to put it down.It is a short story, so the plot is brief. Basically, some of the kids decide to stage a World Book Day and sit up all night reading. Others, however, are twisted by the grief they have experienced and naturally all falls into terror and chaos as the 'sickos' (infected adults) enter the building looking for supper.The sense of peril is real, the descriptions are good, the characters are well-defined.I'm looking forward to starting reading this series properly from the beginning!
review 2: Another great addition to The Enemy franchise in this short story, originally published for World Book Day 2012.This story features familiar characters from The Enemy series and fits somewhere between The Sacrifice and The Fallen, the opening scenes of Higson's latest following directly on from this book.Seeing as it's only a short diversion, there's not too much going on, but we do get a short story told with the usual style of humour, horror and action. less

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