read this book a few years ago so I don't remember the characters names, but the premise is that there aretypes of zombies.
Walkers, Sprinters, and Thinkers. The story deals with the firsttypes very often, but therd type thankfully isn't really ever dealt with.
I have since discovered that there's and book, but since I'm sure it has the thinkers in it, I'm not going to read it.
The main setting is a compound "Eden" where several survivors live and die, And come back. I read a lot of zombie books, I mean a lot. And they have run the gamut from "How many monkeys did it take to write this tripe" to "Well, that was an interesting story.
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Then came the Eden trilogy,
Twists and turns, characters dying that you think should live, characters living that you think should die, and painfully.
Yet, you care about each and every one of them because Monchinski, while not overly descriptive, gives you enough to care about the most minor of characters.
From the very first book, and the very uncommon idea behind it, I was hooked, It took me years to get the last two books of the trilogy and I had to force myself not to devour them immediately.
I wish it wasn't a trilogy, I wish it could go on and on and on, but then we might run the risk of diluting the story, like so many authors do when they let series go on too long.
The Eden trilogy is simply the best set of zombie novels I have ever read, Any fan of the genre should read this one, Raw, and generally awesome if you can get past the typos which aren't too bad once you're sucked in This book drove me nuts because of the errors.
There were so many typing errors that it distracted me from the story, Plus, I was not a fan of the jumping around in the timeline, It would take me a while to figure out where they were were in the story, Other than that, it wasn't an awful zombie book, I plan on reading Crusade, I have hopes that it has been spellchecked, I was debating how many to rate this book, I really enjoyed it, but one thing bothered me, The book flips from different time periods after every chapter, This in itself would not be so bad, but there aren't any dates to let you know what the setting of the chapter is.
Sometimes new characters are introduced and you have to keep reading to find out the time relation of this chapter to the present.
It also slowed the pacing of the main story, At times it was confusing, but I did get used to it, One benefit of this method was that it allowed the author to go back in time and show how some things came to be.
This was especially effective for the ending,
There are some very intense, actionpacked scenes in this book, A couple of my favourites are the drugstore raid and operation kitten rescue, Not a book for the squeamish, I'm a jaded horror reader, but there were parts of this novel that made me go "ugh", There are some sequels to this book, The way this one ends makes me want to jump right into the next one, Overall I think the structure of the novel worked and made it more interesting than your typical zombie fare.
What is going on with this book My copy states the author as Tony Monchinski, who then gives a weird introduction about the meeting someone called Tommy Arlin, who supposedly wrote the actual story.
Seemed a bit pointless.
The story itself is a bit of a mess, with quite a few typos and a timeline that jumps around all over the place.
The idea isn't bad some deliberately lets zombies into a walled settlement in an apparent attempt to assassinate the main character.
He is bitten, but hides it, and tries to get revenge on his killer before he dies, Beyond that, it's basically a typical zombie story with characters that I found hard to care about, Not awful, but not great,
Brutal, frightening, goresoaked and utterly satisfying,
Monchinski has brought about an ugly, hideous and truly inspired tale of the zombie apocalypse, From the first page, you'll be sucked in,
BRAVO! Eden is an interesting zombie apocalypse novel as it tells the story of survivors a few years after the outbreak and how they are surviving within a walled compound named Eden.
As the story progresses the reader is led into a post apocalyptic world where the problems of the real world are still present and very much alive unlike the masses of infected outside the walls of Eden.
We are also introduced to a few new species of zombies like the runners and brains,
Juxtaposed into the storyline are excerpts of various back stories of the survivors from before the outbreak and how they came to be at Eden for the most part.
The story reads well and holds your interest, There are very few issues with grammar and syntax or punctuation, The one very minor error that I was able to find related to spelling was a simple reference to giving something a wide birth whereas it should have been berth.
As I said very minor and does nothing to detract from the overall storyline,
Another minor issue is the collection of firearms that the survivors seem to have access to, Some of the weapons are quasiexotic to really exotic and would be difficult if not impossible to procure within the US and especially within the state of New York where the story takes place.
These exotics would include the South African Striker shotgun, outlawed in the US sincemainly because it had an aggressive sounding name.
I know, stupid reason but one worth noting, The US version was known as the Amsel Striker and was made by Sentinel Arms but is no longer produced.
The Walther WA, a very exotic bullpup configured sniper rifle that is very difficult to locate outside the UK and even there its strictly a military issued rifle.
The Spectre Msubmachine gun, a nice concept for a subgun but it has gone the way of HKs Gand is no longer in mass production.
While considered by some to be an excellent example of ath generation submachine gun, it has fallen to the wayside much like the Calico series of rifles and subguns.
The use of these weapons within Eden in no way detracts or is detrimental to the storyline.
In fact, most readers wont even realize what I pointed out if they didnt work in the firearms industry in some capacity.
I only mention them from my perspective and knowledge base of weaponry,
Having spoken to the author, it appears he likes to use exotic weapons as maybe a trademark in his writing based on his past reading of thess Gold Eagle book titles, The Executioner, Able Team, Soldiers of Barabbas and others.
I too was an avid reader of most of these titles and understand why Mr, Monchinski would want to include such firepower into his work as homage to the characters of Mack Bolan, Carl Lyon, Gadgets Schwartz, Pol Blancanales, weapon smith Konzaki and others.
Overall, Eden is highly recommended as one of the best zombie apocalypse novels on the market and Mr.
Monchinski has put out several sequels to the original, Eden far surpasses other novels in this genre and I personally look forward to more of Mr, Monchinskis work.
Hey Tony, how about working in an AAinto one of your books You know Carl Lyons
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MY THOUGHTS
REALLY LIKED IT
The earth has been devastated by a disease that turns humans into zombies that crave human flesh and a core group of characters, some neighbors, some traveling from safe site to site across the North East of the United States try to band together to form a community in order to exist.
The story centers around Harris who dreams of a zombie free life once again and reminisces about the past with the new citizens of a walled in area that protects them from the invading hoards.
The story focuses on the small day to day interactions and the horror that has become their survival,
When Harris finds himself bitten he knows he is infected with the disease that will soon turn him zombie.
I found it fascinating that he goes through all of the grief stages, much like a terminal cancer patient.
He also refers to three types of zombies: walkers, sprinters and thinkers, The thinkers are few, while the sprinters are the scariest, Most of the action in the story is trying to get away from the invading zombies and killing them with a shot to the head.
Overall, this is a psychological horror tale that should please most zombie lovers!
Pretty good zombie story, Kept it interesting by jumping around, The beginning giving us the end was cool but smearing the hero is not a good way to go.
Also giving a pothead that much intelllectual credit bothers me, Bah, you can't like everything, .