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Comes The Dark (2013)

by Patrick D'Orazio(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1618680986 (ISBN13: 9781618680983)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Permuted Press

review 1: This was an okay read, but I didn't like the fact that the story just stopped at a crucial point, without resolution or any decisive story arc, meaning that anyone interested enough now has to go and buy the next book to find out. Trilogies should have an overarching story, yes, but each book should also be a complete tale within that story.It would have been a three-star review if this hadn't happened.
review 2: You must be strong now. You must never give up. And when people make you cry and you are afraid of the dark, don't forget the light is always there.Comes the Dark: A Zombie Novel is the first in a trilogy written by Patrick D'Orazio. It is the tale of Jeff Blaine, your normal everyday Joe (or Jeff as the case happens to be) dealing with the recent end... more of the world. Six weeks have passed and the population of survivors appears to be nearly void. The only things that appear to be out and about are the never-ending hordes of rotting corpses that are only interested in eating the flesh of any survivor they manage to come upon. Our protagonist has lost everything including his interest in continuing to survive in this frakked up world. (Sorry, just finished watching all of Battlestar Galatica) Jeff holds on to his last remaining bit of sanity by wreaking havoc on the monsters that took his life away. Not long after he starts his rampage Jeff learns that he is not alone, other survivors he comes in contact with force him to rethink the path of destruction he was setting upon. Jeff has a decision to make as the darkness threatens to consume him, either sit back and allow the pain that has overtaken his soul destroy him or stand up and continue to fight alongside these other survivors and to live.Comes the Dark is a very grab you by the seat of your pants and drag you through the mud look at the life of a normal every man during the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. Seriously, Jeff is the guy next door...you know the one with no military background and no significant survival training who, may be out to shoot pool with the guys Saturday night and goes to church with his family on Sunday morning. The guy who has maybe done a bit of shooting with his dad as a kid, but has no real training and is learning on the fly what his best options are for defending himself from the undead. For this reviewer, this was a fantastic change of pace. So many times in a zombie novel the main characters are either in or have been in the military or they just magically have sharpshooter capabilities. Where are the main characters who miss their shot and end up having to wrestle a zombie off of him/her in order to get away and then try that shot again or break out the melee weapon? RIGHT HERE in Comes the Dark!We also meet Megan, Jason and George who also seem to have this neighbor down the street feel to them. The moments of tension between the survivors are completely believable, in my opinion, although I could have dealt with a bit less. There were times where the cause of bickering was so ridiculous that I wanted to toss Megan and/or Jeff out of the van and into the arms of the zeds. That being said, consider some of the things we choose to argue about in our "normal" world, now add the stress of a zombie biting at your heels...I can kind of understand.Now I can't do a proper review of a zombie tale without mentioning our favorite pus_bags. The zombs in Comes the Dark are not running zombies...they are of the shambling variety with no real signs of thinking ability. There is gore but, for me, the gore is detailed enough to give you a good image of what is going on, but not enough to completely gross out the reader.Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Comes the Dark: A Zombie Novel and I greatly look forward to getting my hands on Into the Dark. less

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