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Zombie Britannica (2010)

by Thomas Emson(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1906727295 (ISBN13: 9781906727291)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Snowbooks

review 1: I found the book fantastic from the start with the survivors struggling to stay alive and not get eaten by the zombies. It's a very well paced novel and I couldn't put it down. The author could have done a bit more research into one part of the story however and that is the part when Carrie and Sawyer are on the railway and a train speeds past them with Zombies clambering over the outside of the carriages. Owing for when the book was published, the trains used at the time meant that no one or anything can climb on trains. 4/5.
review 2: I didn't mean to read another Emson right after Prey, but saw Zombie Britannica on a UK shelf while on holiday, and snatched it up. With this one, Emson sets out his stall right away with a genuine quote from an actual scientis... moret: "An outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse of civilisation, with every human infected or dead...". That's pretty much how the book proceeds. The zombies themselves aren't really the story here. Instead, they're a vicious backdrop for the end of the world, a device against which the stories (set in Wales, Scotland, and England) of three groups of survivors play out. As such, the book functions almost as three short novels set in the same world, each of which provides plenty of thrills and excitement. I didn't enjoy this as much as Prey, partly because I kept losing track of the supporting characters in each segment (three novels results in three casts), particularly in the Welsh story, but the tales rattle brutally along at such pace, with so many splendidly over the top set pieces, that I couldn't help but have a breathless good time. less

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