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Dawn Of Zombie Haiku (2011)

by Ryan Mecum(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1440312869 (ISBN13: 9781440312861)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

F+W Media, Inc.

review 1: The book reminded me in a way of A Tale of Two Cities, in that it was challenging to read (in the case of Two Cities the challenge was the difficulty of the old english style of writing, while Zombies was simply gruesome, and of course, written in Haiku.) However, in both cases the ending transformed the book completely into a love story. In A Tale of Two Cities love was represented by totally unrequitted sacrifice, and in Zombies it was represented by a willingness, nay, a gladness, to pay the ultimate price for just one more embrace of a loved one. It goes to show you that finishing a book is really important.
review 2: This series is so awesome. Such a smart package. In this volume, Mecum ups the stakes by making his eventual zombie a child. A child obses... moresed with poetry (hence the haiku). She has a long-dead mom, a crush, and lives with her dad, who loves watching horror films and drives a ferry between the islands which make up NYC. So when the zombie apocalypse hits, they make their way to the Statue of Liberty. Famous poems, remade in haiku and zombified, are scattered through the pages. Seriously, it's a page turner. You want to know what will happen to the crush, the dad, if the escape plan will work, if she'll be faced with her zombified mom. It's kinda sweet, really. And of course, Mecum's zombie haiku are almost always great when taken alone. The packaging, as always, is brilliant, with stock photos and blood spatters and drawings dotting the pages.But honestly, the story is so riveting and touching that I thought about booktalking it. Read it in one sitting. Too gruesome, though. LEAD YOUR TEENS WHO LOVE ZOMBIES TO THIS BOOK! It is hidden in Adult Nonfiction at my library. less

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