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Herbst - Zerfall (2000)

by David Moody(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

390260719X (ISBN13: 9783902607195)

languge

English

genre

Horror

series

Autumn

review 1: Much better than the last book in this series but I have a few issues. The amount of swearing just comes off as unintelligent. I don't mind swearing but every time someone spoke it had to contain a swear. The female corpses are always referred to as "stupid cow" or "poor bitch". The women rarely speak, their characters are flat and they pretty much do not exist. The men are all jerks with tough guy attitudes who fight all the time. Nobody has an intelligent conversation. Ever. Unless you call telling someone to piss off or other more inappropriate things intelligent. The men are vulgar and vapid. Each book adds more characters and it's sometimes hard to keep track of who's who. I keep hoping that Emma and Mike will return... whatever happened to them? Hopefully they'll sho... morew up in the next one. So far they were the only characters I enjoyed.The reason I rated it 4 stars is because there is a saving grace for this series. The constant suspense and action. It's a quick read and for some reason I have to keep reading to find out what happens next. Do they find others? Do they find a secure place to live? Will that guy I hate get killed off? What happens when they can no longer scavenge for food? Will the characters from the first few books come back?
review 2: I actually picked up this book first - without knowing it was a series. About halfway through I realized that something was off, and the rest of the books were listed in the back. There were some serious questions I had: Why do the others think Webb is so voatile, and the 'zombies' so dangerous? I stopped and bought the rest of the series, which didn't particulary clear up that much. The 'zombies' seem to be 'attacking' based on interpretation (really, more pitiful than anything else unless they're in a horde). There's only a few main characters that will make it to the end of the series. Most of the people you meet early on die off. Also, the people that make it to the end - something is weird with the character development. It's like you can sense the shock they are in, based on the fact we find out very little about their lives before the disaster. We also just explore their personalities based on how they act in the midst of the world dying. It's not fast paced at all, however, I do appreciate having a mundane zombie series. It's sort of like being caught in a Tim O'Brian book - periods of absolutely nothing happening, then a breif flurry of action (which is how he describes war). Also, there are only a few survivors who try to do things - most of the groups just fade in the background (they're mostly depressed). I liked this series, simply because it was like nothing else I'd read so far - instead of frantic non-stop bursts of action, or planing to rebuild, survive, etc. - this was haphazard - and it unexpectedly pulled in emotions. At points you have characters almost breaking because everyone has died and they just don't care about surviving - which stresses the others they travel with. I've definetely become a fan of Moody through this series.Also - the books are MUCH better than the movie. less

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