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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So far the series is just straight 3 stars because I like them, but I don't really enjoy them. In this book, B has come across Dr. Oystein and his home for zombies like her. In this book more all of the questions are answered and how B turned back the way she did. All the zombies like her apparently have 200 to 300 years to live if they keep eating the human brains and continue along their life keeping their brain healthy. Dr. Oystein is preparing them all to take on a war that is to come. I didn't enjoy how they brought a religious aspect to the series and how the devil and god brought someone down to either save the race or kill it off. That was really my only major issue, but the books do seem to be getting better than what they were.
4 stars
I listened to the audio version. This series is highly entertaining, despite some issues with B, a girl who continually makes the same stupid mistakes. It's been quite a while since I read the previous book, but the narrator gives a quick overview at the beginning, so I didn't feel lost. The narrator is engaging, and when the cliffhanger came at the end of the book, I immediately borrowed the next in the series. These are short, action packed, and fun to listen to.
I listened to the audio version. This series is highly entertaining, despite some issues with B, a girl who continually makes the same stupid mistakes. It's been quite a while since I read the previous book, but the narrator gives a quick overview at the beginning, so I didn't feel lost. The narrator is engaging, and when the cliffhanger came at the end of the book, I immediately borrowed the next in the series. These are short, action packed, and fun to listen to.
Classic Shan territory, this is the fourth in a long series involving a teenager who is caught up in an epic battle of good against evil. Some nice back-story to the situation in this volume, but otherwise it feels a little lightweight.
When a zombie outbreak occurs in Ireland and is plastered all over the news, B doesn’t believe it for a second, and neither does her abusive, racist father. B continues living her life as if the zombie thing never happened, just like she pretends the abusive outbursts from her father don’t, either. Just like she pretends her dad isn’t that racist, and that she isn’t racist, either. But when the zombies show up at school and her friends start turning one by one, B learns more about herself than she ever wanted to know, and it just might kill her.
I’d like to start off by saying this is the first audiobook I’ve ever listened to. In deciding to start listening to audiobooks, I went waaaaaaaaay back to the beginning of my TBR on Goodreads, back to the first books I ever added. ZOM-B was added way back in 2013; I was only 17 years old. After listening to ZOM-B, I can decidedly say I would maybe have enjoyed this back when I was 17, probably more so when I was 14, but I definitely did not find any interest in it at 22.
The novel starts out pretty promising—heart-pounding zombie action, a young boy pleading for his life to some weird, creepy-looking man, and tons of gory zombie details. That’s just the prologue, though—the “Before.” Afterwards, in the “Now” or “After” or whatever it’s called, it’s mostly just a lot of boring, racist, high school bullshit. Honestly, I forgot I was listening to a book about zombies. There’s some weird stuff throughout, but the zombies don’t invade until almost the end of the story.
So yeah, I was kind of expecting to read about zombies in a zombie book, but that’s not the worst part about this book. The worst part is the main character, B. I absolutely cannot stand her and hated listening to this story from her perspective. The author tries to make her sympathetic by giving her an abusive, racist father and a mother who never stands up to the abuse, but it doesn’t work for me at all. B is a racist, too, and she can justify it all she wants by saying she goes along with it so her dad doesn’t beat her at home, but I think that’s bullshit. B is a racist and a bully. Her dad isn’t at school forcing her to call out her black classmate and make fun of him. Her dad isn’t forcing her to make gorilla noises at a black girl. She has a black friend nicknamed Vinyl and doesn’t pick on him, actually is friends with him in secret, but is probably just his friend to justify that she “isn’t a racist.” Throughout the book, she is constantly referring to other people as “Muslims” and “black boy/girl” rather than their respective names. She’s mean and uses her racist father as a justification for it, but I’m not buying it. She wants her father’s appraisal, sure, I get it, but bullying people of color and generally being an asshole is not the only way to receive praise, I am sure of it. Especially because she doesn’t even tell her father what she does to these kids. So how is it for her father’s benefit, then? It’s funny—she visits a Holocaust museum, and one of her teachers even compares the Holocaust to how B’s father and the other racist radicals in the UK treat people of color. And B cannot believe her ears. She doesn’t believe it. Refuses to make the connection. She makes excuses. Even though she’s witnessed the utter brutality of her father. Their slogan is even “Make Britain white again.” It’s disgusting (and reminiscent of 2018 America, yes?) She does horrible things to people of color in this book, right up until the very last chapter. B deserves what happens to her in the end of the book, even though I’m sure she is ok in the next installment… B is the worst, and a big reason why I didn’t like the book and won’t be reading any more of the series.
As for the other characters, they are barely a blip on the radar. B gives everyone nicknames, so all the other characters are weirdly named, like La Lips, Pox, Vinyl, Copper, etc. They are all very hard to remember and distinguish apart from one another. I truly can’t tell you much about them, except Copper is a ginger and Vinyl is black. Other than that, they didn’t have much character development and barely played a role in the story, other than being food for the zombies.
Another thing I didn’t like about ZOM-B: the zombies themselves. From what I could discern, they are controlled by strange “mutants” at the sound of a whistle. I didn’t really understand it. And I hate those kinds of zombie stories, where the zombies aren’t really zombies… I don’t know. It just didn’t interest me.
As for the narrator, she was British, so that helped envision B, but she read too slow and didn’t really captivate me. Or maybe I just didn’t like her because I hated B so much. Who knows.
Overall, I really didn’t like the book all that much. I’m pretty sure I would have disliked it just as much if I’d read the physical copy, too. I certainly won’t be continuing the series. 11 more books about B???????? No. Thank. You. I liked the gory zombie scenes and I enjoyed the suspense (as I do with all zombie novels). I didn’t like the zombies, I didn’t like the writing, and I especially didn’t like the main character. I am glad to have gotten it off my TBR, though. And I’m glad it introduced me to the world of audiobooks.
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I’d like to start off by saying this is the first audiobook I’ve ever listened to. In deciding to start listening to audiobooks, I went waaaaaaaaay back to the beginning of my TBR on Goodreads, back to the first books I ever added. ZOM-B was added way back in 2013; I was only 17 years old. After listening to ZOM-B, I can decidedly say I would maybe have enjoyed this back when I was 17, probably more so when I was 14, but I definitely did not find any interest in it at 22.
The novel starts out pretty promising—heart-pounding zombie action, a young boy pleading for his life to some weird, creepy-looking man, and tons of gory zombie details. That’s just the prologue, though—the “Before.” Afterwards, in the “Now” or “After” or whatever it’s called, it’s mostly just a lot of boring, racist, high school bullshit. Honestly, I forgot I was listening to a book about zombies. There’s some weird stuff throughout, but the zombies don’t invade until almost the end of the story.
So yeah, I was kind of expecting to read about zombies in a zombie book, but that’s not the worst part about this book. The worst part is the main character, B. I absolutely cannot stand her and hated listening to this story from her perspective. The author tries to make her sympathetic by giving her an abusive, racist father and a mother who never stands up to the abuse, but it doesn’t work for me at all. B is a racist, too, and she can justify it all she wants by saying she goes along with it so her dad doesn’t beat her at home, but I think that’s bullshit. B is a racist and a bully. Her dad isn’t at school forcing her to call out her black classmate and make fun of him. Her dad isn’t forcing her to make gorilla noises at a black girl. She has a black friend nicknamed Vinyl and doesn’t pick on him, actually is friends with him in secret, but is probably just his friend to justify that she “isn’t a racist.” Throughout the book, she is constantly referring to other people as “Muslims” and “black boy/girl” rather than their respective names. She’s mean and uses her racist father as a justification for it, but I’m not buying it. She wants her father’s appraisal, sure, I get it, but bullying people of color and generally being an asshole is not the only way to receive praise, I am sure of it. Especially because she doesn’t even tell her father what she does to these kids. So how is it for her father’s benefit, then? It’s funny—she visits a Holocaust museum, and one of her teachers even compares the Holocaust to how B’s father and the other racist radicals in the UK treat people of color. And B cannot believe her ears. She doesn’t believe it. Refuses to make the connection. She makes excuses. Even though she’s witnessed the utter brutality of her father. Their slogan is even “Make Britain white again.” It’s disgusting (and reminiscent of 2018 America, yes?) She does horrible things to people of color in this book, right up until the very last chapter.
Spoiler
She legit throws a black kid at a horde of zombies just to save herself. Because her dad told her to.As for the other characters, they are barely a blip on the radar. B gives everyone nicknames, so all the other characters are weirdly named, like La Lips, Pox, Vinyl, Copper, etc. They are all very hard to remember and distinguish apart from one another. I truly can’t tell you much about them, except Copper is a ginger and Vinyl is black. Other than that, they didn’t have much character development and barely played a role in the story, other than being food for the zombies.
Another thing I didn’t like about ZOM-B: the zombies themselves. From what I could discern, they are controlled by strange “mutants” at the sound of a whistle. I didn’t really understand it. And I hate those kinds of zombie stories, where the zombies aren’t really zombies… I don’t know. It just didn’t interest me.
As for the narrator, she was British, so that helped envision B, but she read too slow and didn’t really captivate me. Or maybe I just didn’t like her because I hated B so much. Who knows.
Overall, I really didn’t like the book all that much. I’m pretty sure I would have disliked it just as much if I’d read the physical copy, too. I certainly won’t be continuing the series. 11 more books about B???????? No. Thank. You. I liked the gory zombie scenes and I enjoyed the suspense (as I do with all zombie novels). I didn’t like the zombies, I didn’t like the writing, and I especially didn’t like the main character. I am glad to have gotten it off my TBR, though. And I’m glad it introduced me to the world of audiobooks.
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So far the series is just straight 3 stars because I like them, but I don't really enjoy them. In this book, B has come across Dr. Oystein and his home for zombies like her. In this book more all of the questions are answered and how B turned back the way she did. All the zombies like her apparently have 200 to 300 years to live if they keep eating the human brains and continue along their life keeping their brain healthy. Dr. Oystein is preparing them all to take on a war that is to come. I didn't enjoy how they brought a religious aspect to the series and how the devil and god brought someone down to either save the race or kill it off. That was really my only major issue, but the books do seem to be getting better than what they were.
Notes:
Hm. Plot took a turn that I was hoping that it would not. At this point, the story seems to be degrading on multiple fronts vs getting stronger. Let's see how the next book goes.
Hm. Plot took a turn that I was hoping that it would not. At this point, the story seems to be degrading on multiple fronts vs getting stronger. Let's see how the next book goes.
There is not much action in this book, but it is good for unanswered questions and an actual plan to move forward.
So far the series is just straight 3 stars because I like them, but I don't really enjoy them. In this book, B has come across Dr. Oystein and his home for zombies like her. In this book more all of the questions are answered and how B turned back the way she did. All the zombies like her apparently have 200 to 300 years to live if they keep eating the human brains and continue along their life keeping their brain healthy. Dr. Oystein is preparing them all to take on a war that is to come. I didn't enjoy how they brought a religious aspect to the series and how the devil and god brought someone down to either save the race or kill it off. That was really my only major issue, but the books do seem to be getting better than what they were.