I'm not really up to speed on things to say so I'm just gonna talk about the
Monster series by author David Wellington. To make a long story short, it's a zombie series but with a twist. In the first novel,
Monster Island, a man named Dekalb and his daughter Sarah go to New York City with a group of badass female child soliders. They are looking for medication for their dying leader, so they want to go to the best place. There's only one problem, zombies are everywhere, so its basically about them getting to a certain place and having to mow through everything in their way. On the flip side (this book alternates between 2 people) we have Gary, a doctor (I think) who was able to keep oxygen flowing to his brain after his death. He became one of the undead but was able to keep his intelligence and he also gained a special power too, he can talked to and control the other zombies. Not only that, there seems to be a higher power guiding him every step of the way. The two protagonists meet, their fates become intertwined and a lot of cool shit goes down.
Anyway that's just a summary. I thought the book was brilliant, there was zombies, friendship, trust, sacrifice and all kinds of good stuff that kept me interested the whole way, and then there's Gary. Gary was like the icing on the cake and served to be an excellent character whose mind became a bit too twisted.
Onto the second book,
Monster Nation. This time around we have a prequel that is set just before the rise of the zombies. It centers around a female character this time whose lost her memories but eventually she gets them back and we know her as Nilla. She was mortally wounded by one of the first zombies and passed out in an oxygen bar. That's right, she becomes a zombie too, same as Gary and is guided by the same being whose goal is to wipe out humanity and end the world. Her power lets her sort of become invisible but it's more like blinking out of existence. As it turns out she's the only one who can touch
The Source, the cause of the entire disaster. She goes on a journey to said source but doesn't really know what she wants, and when she gets there you find out the reason why everything happened and Nilla's decision on whether or not to destroy the world.
Like the first book this one rocked me, mostly because I love female protagonists, and more because of the good storytelling (though the motive behind the plague is lacking a bit). Anyway some might think this is badly written and sometimes it is, but the awesomeness of it all outranks the few mistakes. (Though I can't say the same about
Twilight). That's about all I have to say on that, now to the third book, probably the worst one but not bad.
Monster Planet. To begin this story takes place 10 years after the first one, the zombies have pretty much wiped out like 90% of humanity and the ones left are clinging to the few remaining safe places. We have a grown up Sarah who is being raised (upcoming spoiler) by one of the child soliders from the first book, Ayaan after her father was killed in the first novel. Anyway the main villain of this story is a Lich (super-powered zombies) who calls himself "The Tsarevich". There is a lot of complicated things going on but the gist of it, Ayaan is kidnapped by him and presumed dead, but Sarah is determined to get her back no matter what, guided by (you guessed it) the same thing that has been guiding everyone else. Well soon (spoiler) Ayaan is corrupted and killed, and then turned into a lich herself, she gains the power to destroy matter with some kind of light that is shot from her hands, she also sees everything from the perspective of the bad guys and becomes evil herself. Everything ends with a huge battle with Sarah and a few mummies, against the king of the liches and all his undead servants. (again spoilers, but you probably don't care). Gary and Sarah's father make a reappearance and she finds that there is more going on then whats on the surface. Another pleasant surprise is the return of Nilla, who is also on the side of The Tsarevich. And end the end the salvation of the world all comes down to a single question to Sarah, who now holds the fate of everything in her answer. "What is more important than the end of the world?" .
This book was by far the worst one, but it makes up for it a bit by answering all your questions and being filled to the tip with nonstop action from beginning to end. I'll admit it, this book series was fucking awesome, even though it wasn't the best written piece of work, it still kicked huge levels of super-powered zombie ass.
Well with that review I'll end this post with a few more words. I'll be buying a webcam and will probably start making videos and podcasts which will be posted here of course. A final thing, my new review will be a movie, the worst rated movie in the world,
Pocket Ninjas. Look forward to that. With that I say, Sayonara.
- Kode-Dekka
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