Autumn: The City by David Moody Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Autumn: The City
Book Review: At last a zombie novel that's not rubbish
Summary: 5 Stars
This series of books by David Moody is very enjoyable and just about the best I have read. Good characters and plot and no unnecessary gore. The tension is built by focusing on the trapped groups of survivors, and how the undead slowly become aware of them and their relentless and instinctive drive to get at them. There's no flesh eating, which may disappoint some zombie fans, but the behaviour of the zombies is a refreshing change and in many ways, less fantastic, which makes the books that bit more exciting.
Having binned Len Bernhart's childish and risible attempt at writing a book, I was really pleased to find such a great series of zombie novels. They have a much more grown up feel, more like Wyndham or Wells than the usual pulp in this genre.
I read all four, one after the other and enjoyed becoming immersed in the whole story line.
There's rumours of a fifth and I am very much looking forward to it.
Book Review: A sequel to the first book? No! Not at all!
Summary: 2 Stars
If anyone has read the first book and then gets `the sequel' which is meant to be this book you're in for a let down.
Autumn (the first book) starts with this deadly disease tearing through the planet killing most people and leaving only a few survivors fighting for their lives. That's what the whole book is about and its not half bad, except for the style of writing and over use of the same words. So the first book was good but nothing to really shout from the rooftops about.
Anyway, I liked how that book ended and thought I would buy the `sequel' to see how the survivors have handled their new lives.
So I sit down with my new book, Autumn; The City, I was incredibly disappointed as the book starts how the first book started! A deadly disease tearing through the planet killing most people and leaving only a few survivors fighting for their lives.
I felt robbed, it was the exact same story but with new people going through all the situations that happened in the first book.
About halfway through you do get to hear about two people that were in the first book and that is how the writer can get away with calling this a sequel.
And watch out for people saying `don't know' `don't know' `don't know'.
That's what happened in the first book and it's back and worse than ever in this one. It is very annoying to read the same words over and over, I kept waiting for someone to say `don't know' and I didn't have to wait long.
Avoid this book, you may as well just read the first book again, it's the same thing and you dont have to waste your money.
Book Review: Great book, great series
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not a prolific writer of reviews on amazon, this is my first and it's just to support a great writer who truly understands story telling.
David seems to have grasped that elusive thing that is the art of writing a really good tale.
In the tradition of Joe Lansdale he writes very human stories that we can all relate to and paces them fantastically. Moody seems to be able to get into the head of the reader and present something instantly accessible, it's not that David's books are high brow literary masterpeices, what they are is great reads!
Zombies, the end of the world and ordinary people trying to make sense of it all, what more could you ask for?
Book Review: Easy going fodder
Summary: 2 Stars
The City is a sequel to the first Autumn in the same fashion that Evil Dead II is a sequel to Evil Dead. It's a rehash, adding very little content, and not answering any questions left over from the first. What differs from the original entry is the rural setting has been replaced with that of a cityscape. In the last quarter of the book the story meets up with where the original Autumn ended (although you won't have needed to read it, since the events have all recompiled in this book). At the end of The City you are presented with no closure, ensuring that you'll continue with the series. That all said, you probably will continue with it. Despite the lack of originality, the repetitive plot, the two dimensional characters, and no memorable scenes - there is a spark in Moody's Autumn series that cannot be dulled. It's a bleak premise and you will want to see how humanity overcomes this setback. It's a quick pulp fiction read that is fine as a filler if you're hard up for top-notch book to read.Book Review: The story expands.
Summary: 4 Stars
The author has done well to expand the "cast" of characters while keeping the very intimate and, relatively, slow pace feel of the first book.
That said I did enjoy the fact that there were more people to be involved, more close shaves as they move away from their original haven and the clear prospect of much more activity in the 3rd instalment. It's on my bookshelf and after finishing this I can't wait!
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