The Rising
by Brian Keene

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Book Review: Dawn of The Gore
Summary: 2 Stars

The Story focuses on a Journey supposedly taken by four of the survivors of a deadly plague that turns humans into Zombies ,the main Character (Jim Thurmond) who is trapped in a secret hideout inside his own house ,His wife is dead along with his unborn child ,And to add more misery to his situation his wife returns from the grave to roam around his place along with hordes of zombies ,By some kind of a miracle he received a call from his own son who lives in New Jersey on his Cell phone ,And he decides to make a trip accross the country to save his son ,And he encounters other Survivors along the way.

at the beguining of my reading I was totally captivated by the atmosphere and the dread of isolation ,It reminded me with the legendary novel (I Am Legend) ,But soon after that the story turns into some kind of gory feast ,With characters you feel very hard to sympathy with except for Jim ,Unlike the short stories I have read for Keene before the gory details are even overwhelming the characters and situation building ,With some old themes like the General who gone blood thirsty and whoring and normal people turning into cannibals ...etc ,All of that have been explored before in other writers works like Tim Lebbon and Simon Clarck and even in the recent movie (28 Days Later) ,Only some nice touches gave the story a little bit of value like the scientific explaination for the crisis which in itself came foggy and unconvincing.

I Think that Brian Keene has to re consider his steps and return to the land of (EarthWorm Gods) which was more merciful than those stupid zombies.

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