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!