Review of "Monster Island" by David Wellington

Originally published June 14, 12007

I also finished my zombie book Monster Island by David Wellington last night. Holy damn was that awesome!! O_O Wow. Yeah. Kicked my ass. I just... wow. Totally blew my ideas and preconceived notions and beliefs of zombie lore out of the water! It's awesome! Love it. It has the same elements of most zombie books:

• Frantic survival of the last remnants of humanity
• Man vs man
• Man vs zombie
• Ethical/moral standards from previous pre-zombie life vs the new and radical-survivalist mode of post-zombie world
   

But then it also adds in some new elements:

• A talking, cognizant zombie
• Organized zombie army
• Ancient curses
• The new theory that zombies don't have to be mindless eating machines (see first bullet)
• Zombie pigeons

Yeah. It totally blew my mind. Now I want to get his other two books, Monster Nation, and Monster Planet. Monster Nation deals with how the zombie Epidemic all started, so technically "before" Monster Island. And then Monster Planet I'm pretty sure deals with the basic annihilation of humanity as we know it. NEAT! Then I can get his latest book 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale. Dude! David Wellington is my new paranormal hero! Squeee!

The Beginning of the End!

Welcome to my blog! Here I will be posting nothing but stuff about books: book reviews, book recommendations, book release dates, etc. Soon I will be posting my very first book review onto this site, once I write it. I'm very excited about this review, since it was such an amazing book. To give you a head's up, the book was Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry. I will review a few more of his books in the future, since he is an amazing writer of amazing books.

Also, if you have any recommendations for books I should plug here, or books you think I should review, please let me know! Drop me a comment and I will make sure to get that book into my stack to review. I make no promises that your book will be the very next book I review, but it will be in the queue, so don't worry.

I will also be posting older book reviews from an older blog that I have shut down. I will post them with the original date I wrote them, so it doesn't seem like I do nothing but read... I wish.

All right, I have to get back to reading stuff so I can review it! Thanks for dropping by, and I hope you'll come back and see what new stuff will be waiting for you!