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Monster Island: A Zombie Novel

Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Snowbooks
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

26 reviews
Sales Rank: 7830

Media: Paperback
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.3

ISBN: 1905005474
EAN: 9781905005475
ASIN: 1905005474

Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Condition: Brand New Unopened light shelf wear

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4 out of 5 stars

Loved it. May 31, 2008
I don't often review books, but I'll make an exception here.

I saw this book a few times, read the cover then put it back. There was something about school girl zombie killers that put me off. But eventually I caved in and I brought it.

I really enjoyed it and found it to be a real page turner. I normally only read on the train to/from work but I finished this off on a Saturday afternoon. My only disappointment was it was a short book (379 pages). But every page was interesting.

So, great book, really looking forward to reading the next one, and don't be put off by the school girl zombie killers. It makes perfect sense.

2 out of 5 stars

not as good... May 29, 2008
...as folk are making out. The writing is quite dry, there's no real impetus to get to the end and despite one or two good ideas, I found this quite unsatisfying.

Lucky for me, I bought a couple of zombie books at the same time, and the second one I read was actually fantastic. By all means buy this book to see what it's like, but do what I did too - get The Rising by Brian Keene, which is a much more vivid book, indeed more like a movie than a book, and read it after Monster Island. I'll be surprised if you don't appreciate the jump in literary power, imagination and outright horror that The Rising provides.

1 out of 5 stars

Don't waste your time May 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have now read all three books in this trilogy by David Wellington. The story is ok and I would have given it a three if it stood alone as a zombie novel, however after reading the final book in the trilogy I was so disappointed in the ending I felt as though I had wasted my time in reading any of them. Therefore I decided to give this book only one star because ultimately I felt really deflated and disappointed.

4 out of 5 stars

read it! April 29, 2008
a good read, the plot is very pacy, good story telling and loved the bad guy was most amusing, thought the book was so good ive started the next one, its taken me some time to find a decent zombie novel, id recoment word war z and throughly advise anyone with half a brain cell NOT TO READ PLAGUE OF THE DEAD, utter trash

1 out of 5 stars

The definition of silly April 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Zombie novels obviously require suspension of disbelief but it would take much more than that to take Monster Island seriously.

A rag tag group of teenage girl guerrilla warriors from Somalia and an American weapons inspector sail from Africa to New York to search for AIDS medication needed by a local warlord.

Trouble is, society has buckled under the weight of a plague of walking corpses and NYC is home to a million undead ghouls - including one that can still think and has the power to command the armies of shuffling walking corpses.

As if that wasn't ridiculous enough, the story also features ancient mummies in the metropolitan museum being reanimated and a Scottish mummy who is straight out of Saturday morning cartoons.

Monster Island is utterly unconvincing and lacks any real tension, characterisation or depth.

Anyone intersted in the genre should check out World War Z by Max Brooks, which presents a chillingly plausible global collapse and comments on the futilty of a society unprepared for disaster.