Monster Island: A Zombie Novel | David Wellington

Monster Island: A Zombie Novel | David Wellington | A solid and inventive zombie movie... er, book.

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	Monster Island: A Zombie Novel David Wellington Running Press, 2006 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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It's one month after a global disaster. The most "developed" nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive ? in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies, Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world ? and perhaps the evil genius behind it all. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb, a former United Nations weapons inspector, leads them as their local guide. Ayaan, a crack shot at the age of sixteen, will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island they will find that there is something worse even than being undead, as Gary learns the true price of survival.

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Outstanding Zombie Novel!!

I've read many horror novels before, but never one dealing with zombies. Okay, a bit of a lie there. I read Cell by Stephen King. Loved it. And I've seen 90% of the zombie movies made (the legit ones, that is), and am a huge Romero fan. This book was something different. Not better, not worse. Just different.

Wellington has a great, easy style that's quick to pull the reader into his world and consume you completely. This was one of the few books that I just couldn't put down. And when I had to (for sleep, food, work), I was missing the book. Not since reading Ketchum's The Girl Next Door was I sucked into a story. Though Wellington didn't clobber my emotions as Ketchum did, Wellington did succeed in catching me off-guard with some twists that I wasn't expecting at all. The ending was simply brilliant, and made me wish there'd been more.

As a horror fan I couldn't get enough of Wellington's style, his book, his world. I look forward to reading more from this author.

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A solid and inventive zombie movie... er, book.

Anyone who's a fan of George Romero's work will love MONSTER ISLAND. This book reads like one of the classic DEAD movies, full of action and fairly interesting characters caught in bad situations. In fact, a few of MONSTER ISLAND's characters are fairly well, uh, fleshed out? Ha ha. Even better, Wellington throws in some fresh, surprising plot twists along with the usual paint-by-the-numbers zombie fare. Some of the reversals I never saw coming. This is not profound literature by any means, but it is very, very entertaining!

Great concept, crumbles a little towards the end.

An entertaining take on zombie tales. Where he went with the story made it less of a horror book and more of an "us vs. them" or good guys vs. bad guys story, but the characters were kind of interesting and it kept the plot moving along. Worth the read. Also, google the books and you can find them for free online.

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Decent Start

This was a pretty good first horror novel. The writing was pretty crisp and the action flowed along well. There were some plotting problems that seemed to hurt the story a little. The story itself is basically split between a former UN peacekeeper who travels to Manhattan with a group of Somalian women fighters to find aids fighting drugs for their leader, and Gary an intelligent zombie. I though the Gary character was very original, and I liked the slow moving Romero type zombies. I thought the author missed a few good gross out kill moments he could have jumped on. I also didn't like the supernatural element that was added to the story near the end. Mummies, magic and wizards really took me out of the story. I have been reading some bad reviews on the next two books in the series, so I am a little hesitant to continue on with story. Maybe if my reading pile goes down a bit I may give the others a chance.

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Complex for a zombie thriller

I got the whole trilogy and read them in order thankfully. The writing style seemed a bit complex compared to other "undead" based books I have read.
The trilogy one was more in depth and had a supernatural flavor to it. I was looking for a brain-smashing mindless zombie book but this one gave me a different experience. I feel indifferent as it did not satisfy my mindless need for human on zombie violence.

I would definitely read all 3 of the books to get full satisfaction but if you have not read ANY zombie books read this one first so you are not "disappointed" that it is not similar to the other undead books out there.

If you want brain-bashing go elsewhere but if you want interesting characters and a departure from the norm this is a great book.

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