Monster Island: A Zombie Novel by David Wellington Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Monster Island: A Zombie Novel
Book Review: The best horror book i have ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been reading horror books since i was a teenager, some hit and many miss primarily due to story line and inadequate writing but this novel has everything that any horror buff requires including an excellent and engaging story line with sufficient gore to keep even the avid zombie maniac happy . It is very well written and the characters are absorbing. It is action packed from start to finish. I actualy read the entire book in two evenings when I should have been finalising various work assignments. I have just ordered the next in this series Zombie Nation. I urge any horror fan not just of the zombie genre to read this novel. it is excellent.
Book Review: Spectacular zombie tale
Summary: 5 Stars
Please ignore the bad review, this is a brilliant story, as is it's sequel 'Monster Nation', and i just can't wait for 'Monster Planet' which does not come out until next year unfortunately.
It is very well written and constructed. It is a very different take on the zombie issue, which may upset the more traditional zombie fan, i suppose.
If you're looking for a boring, repetitive and trite zombie tale, look elsewhere. This is a thinking man's zombie tale.
Book Review: A refreshingly intelligent entry in the zombie fiction genre
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazingly enough, something good has finally come out of the UN. Well, sort of, anyway. I'm talking about Monster Island, a whale of a good zombie novel written by David Wellington, an archivist at the UN. I should admit that, while I strive to be an epicure in the macabre, I've never been a big fan of zombies. They're ugly, they stink (luckily, this is not a scratch-n-sniff book), they never even eat brains anymore, and - most importantly - they are just incredibly stupid, mindless creatures. Obviously, I'm not naturally inclined to be impressed by any zombie novel that just happens to come my way. I am impressed with Monster Island, though, largely because of the science and imagination David Wellington applies to create something more than your average zombie.
Life as we know it is no more - not since the Epidemic killed the vast majority of life on the planet, then brought it back in the form of the walking dead. Things are so bad that Somalia is one of the few refuges remaining for living human beings in the world. It is there that former UN weapons inspector Dekalb seeks safety with his daughter Sarah - and, in exchange for that safety, agrees to accompany members of the Glorious Girl Army of the Free Woman's Republic of Somaliland (teenaged girl soldiers) to New York in search of the AIDS-related drugs Mama Halima and her people need in order to stay on the living side of existence. That is what brings him to New York City (there are plenty of drugs in the UN Headquarters), which, with its teeming zombie minions, has definitely earned the name Monster Island.
Not all zombies are created equal, as a fellow named Gary proves. All alone now, Gary knows that he cannot avoid becoming yet another zombie in New York City. He has a plan, though, based on his theory that the cut-off of oxygen to the brain in the minutes between death and reanimation are what make zombies totally brain-dead. Putting his medical training and some borrowed medical equipment to good use, he kills himself in such a way that the flow of oxygen to his brain is uninterrupted. So, even though he does become a zombie, he's a speaking, thinking zombie. Not only that, he soon acquires the ability to compel all the mindless zombies around him to do his bidding.
With Dekalb fighting to keep himself, his team of soldiers, and a small society of New York humans alive on an island roiling with tens if not hundreds of thousands of zombies and a veritable zombie king whose power seems to grow by the minute, Monster Island does not want for action and a healthy degree of gore. There's just no way to kill a zombie that doesn't leave behind a mess, and - let's face it - zombies eat people. That is what they do.
While the reader must suspend a great deal of disbelief while reading Monster Island, it is still a refreshingly intelligent entry in the zombie fiction genre. It even manages to deliver a really good ending, which is particularly remarkable given the fact that it is the first book of a planned trilogy. As such, it does leave a number of questions unanswered, especially in terms of the cause of the zombie epidemic, but that is the subject for book two (which I, for one, am quite anxious to read). It's about time that someone took the zombie genre to bold new heights, and I think David Wellington is just the writer to do it.
Book Review: Fun, fast and scary...
Summary: 4 Stars
There is a liberal drenching of gore and brain eating, a thread of black humour and some truly nasty set pieces. The pace is kept fast even during the peaceful interludes, and the short chapters and consistantly well-placed cliffhangers conspire ruthlessly to keep you turning the pages.
Lovers of "pure" zombie fiction may balk at some of the themes in this book(such as Gary's mental powers over zombies), but should still give it a chance.
Book Review: monster island
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought it was one of the best zoombie books I've read to date. I thought it was going to be another run of the mill zoombie tales,
Yet I was surprised at how interesting it was!
I couldnt keep the book down. 'David wellington' has decribed almost every detail brilliantly throughout the story and you get a real picture of it in your head.
I would recommend it to anyone who loves zoombie films.
I jsut cant wait for the other two books to be released and hope they follow suit.
A must to read