City of the Dead

Gave this 3 hours to develop.... never did. The narration of the book was more horrible then the development of this book. I felt like some strange uncle at summer camp is telling me “a story”.

This is really the second in a two book series with 'The Rising' being the first.
I found the first book interesting because it was different from the typical zombie story.
The zombies aren't really zombies but more like a 'Evil Dead' style creatures that possess the bodies of the dead.
I was alright with this since I like the Evil Dead movies and the book had decent character development with characters you cared about. Book one leaves you with a big cliffhanger the almost insures that if you made it to the end of book one, your going to buy book two.
Book two continues to engage with the characters and story.
So what's my problem? The ending is possibly the worst ending I've ever read or heard.
It trashes everything you as a reader has invested in throughout both books.
I've head of sacrificing characters to further the story, but this is ridiculous.

While the story was good and a good follow-up to The Rising, The narrator was NOT up to the job! It was irritating and just plain unnerving when this deep-voiced man tried to immitate a scared young boy. He also fails to properly emulate characters' emotion that he was going for throughout the story. At times he reads too fast, failing to adaquately pause to facilitate character and scene changes.

I'm something of a veteran of the zombie genre, and I was interested in the concept of zombies that were demons that inhabited the dead. However, the longer I listened to this book, the more disappointed I grew. People under siege by ravening monsters somehow take the time to have drawn-out conversations. A kid who's dealt with the demonizing of his parents somehow seems to come across as annoying, not sympathetic--maybe because half his dialogue involves screaming for his daddy.

I think the part that turned me off was a point where the zombies were assaulting an armory. After saying how the occupants were trained police and combat veterans, they send about 5-6 suicide bombers at the armory. You'd expect one or two to get through to make the zombie raid possible, even though the defenders have their own fields of fire and are trained for crowd control and urban warfare...

No. All except for one get through, because ALL THE DEFENDERS SHOOT AT THE SAME ZOMBIE. They stop one, because they seem to have taken double their daily dose of stupid, and the rest get through.

Apologies to the author, but I lost all sympathy for Jim and his son and his friends. Let the zombies have them. If I could get my money back, I would.

Call me old fashioned when it comes to zombies but I like either the slow moving stupid ones or the new and impoved fast but reckless ones.
The zombies in this book did not appeal to me in the least. Come on, outer space beings taking over humans and turning them into talking, somewhat smart zombies with a purpose that is not soley the munching down on living flesh?? It may appeal to a younger crowd but not me. Not to mention that the description was outright decieving. Not one of my favorites but can't really blame B.K. for having variety. I loved Castaways!

I LOVE zombie novels. But the zombies must be "Romero" zombies: slow, stupid and silent except for their signature moan. These "zombies" are really demons. Thanks, but no thanks.

If you listened to "The Rising" and were taken with the cliffhanger ending then this is absolutely required listening. I feel it couldn't have ended any other way, HOWEVER part of me wanted it to. I won't say any more than that as to not give anything away. I wouldn't recommend this unless you have already familiarized yourself with "The Rising," but the first chapter does a good job of recapping the previous events of the series.

I thought it was well written and entertaining all the way through. The action was none stop. The ending may not be for everyone but it was a nice change from other books. This is not for younger readers by any means, some really messed up sexual stuff going on in this one.
I'd give this book 5 stars but the production for the reader was so so. It sounded like he used a voice activated recorder. At some point in the book I actually heard a plane flying by as he was recording. His voice did kinda sound like the guy from A Christmas Story which made me kinda laugh at first be he does read well. I'd also suggest the first book. They are both really good and worth the credit in my opinion. If you like Zombies and the Evil Dead films you will most likley like this book and The Rise as well.

This is the 2nd Book in the series, but he gives enough background in this book that there is no problem getting into the story. At first I thought the reader was bland, but as the story goes forward he gets into the different characters and gets better. It's not your normal Zombie story because they are not just Zombies. I don't want to give it away, so I'll leave it at that. There are lots of characters and lots of action scenes. It's a very good scary story and worth the read.

I read Castaways. A very enjoyable book by Brian Keene. This book however is horrible. Very disappointing.