dozens reviewed Autumn by David Moody
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1 star
This kid came into the library the other day and started ordering zombie books.
He was like, "I'm really into zombies. It's kind of my thing. I read tons of zombie fiction."
So then he recommended this novel, citing it as a gem of the genre.
And if that's the case, it's a sad sad thing for the genre, because this book was pretty awful.
First of all, I know that Moody published this himself, but there were all kinds of typos littered throughout the book. That's a shame. And it's distracting.
The dialog is as lifeless as the walking corpses.
Here's almost every conversation in the book:
"You alright?"
"I guess."
"What should we do?"
"Dunno."
The characters are very flat, developing little or not at all.
The novel really plods along at first too. Despite the epidemic hitting during the first couple of paragraphs and creating millions of …
This kid came into the library the other day and started ordering zombie books.
He was like, "I'm really into zombies. It's kind of my thing. I read tons of zombie fiction."
So then he recommended this novel, citing it as a gem of the genre.
And if that's the case, it's a sad sad thing for the genre, because this book was pretty awful.
First of all, I know that Moody published this himself, but there were all kinds of typos littered throughout the book. That's a shame. And it's distracting.
The dialog is as lifeless as the walking corpses.
Here's almost every conversation in the book:
"You alright?"
"I guess."
"What should we do?"
"Dunno."
The characters are very flat, developing little or not at all.
The novel really plods along at first too. Despite the epidemic hitting during the first couple of paragraphs and creating millions of corpses, they don't reanimate until almost a third of the way through the book, and they don't start attacking until almost two-thirds of the way through the book.
I was frequently frustrated by the initial lack of zombies in this book!