Monster Island: A Zombie Novel | David Wellington | Excellent, unique twist on the zombie genre

Monster Island: A Zombie Novel | David Wellington | Amazing Zombie epic pray for more!

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	Monster Island: A Zombie Novel David Wellington Running Press, 2006 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 80 reviews view larger image
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Excellent, unique twist on the zombie genre

I read a lot of books, including a great number of "volume one"s - the first in a trilogy, the first in a series and so forth. In many of those cases, I never make it to volume two. In many of the others, I make a note to pick up the second volume "sooner or later." This is one of those rare cases where I want to rush right out and get the next book, because I'm dying to see what happens next.

At first blush, this seems to be a typical zombie novel. A plague of the undead has overrun the Earth and there seems to be no hope, let alone a cure. Dekalb, a former UN weapons inspector, agrees to go to New York to try to find a supply of HIV drugs for a Somalian warrior woman, in exchange for the safety of his daughter. What Dekalb doesn't count on is Gary, a former doctor who theorizes that the reason the Undead are mindless beasts is because their brains starve from lack of oxygen between the time they die and the time they rise - and he thinks he's found a way to beat it. While Dekalb's mission remainds somewhat single-minded, Gary finds himself growing more and more horrific and bloodthirsty as the book progresses, with his goals changing as he learns more about the Undead and the world he has ushered himself into.

David Wellington has found a wonderful new twist on the zombie novel. It's not just "man against the walking dead" like so many of the stories are - instead he digs deeper to reveal an underlying evil that makes the zombie plague seem innocent by comparison. It feels like a Stephen King sort of twist, only with a much more solid ending, even for the first volume of a trilogy. While the book as a whole is very energetic and exciting, it's the ending that makes me want to run out for book two, Monster Nation. I've got to see just where Wellington plans on taking this.

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Amazing Zombie epic pray for more!

Great new take on zombie apoclyspe. truly amazing, nothing sort of one of the best horror books of the decade!

Good Read

David Wellington brings a new twist to the zombie genre with Monster Island. The world is overrun, old third world nations are now the world powers, and one of these powers has the bold idea to get the medicine it desperately needs out of a dead NYC.

Unfortunately, the unit dispatched to get the medicine soon finds out there are things worse than the mindless undead.

Best of the trilogy

I read the whole trilogy by Wellington, starting with Island, then Nation, and last Planet. This was by far my favorite. The writing is gripping and really what you're looking for if you want a book that will be entertaining and a good, quick read. I think I went through all three books in less than two weeks -- not reading all day. The only part that turned me off was the introduction of a mystical element -- which comes much more into play in the next two books. That wasn't what I was looking for and was actually pretty lame. If that kind of thing doesn't bother you, that's great and you'll probably love them all.

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Zombie love.

Look I'm not going to claim this is high art or anything, but if you enjoy the zombie genre you probably won't be disappointed by this book. I do, and I wasn't.

The premise was great and a slightly fresh take on the zombie scenario. My only complaint was probably with the two zombie characters. I don't know. I just wasn't interested in that part of the plot and probably would have enjoyed the story more without that. Oh well.

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