City Of The Dead by Brian Keene
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Book Summary Author: Brian Keene Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2005-05 ISBN: 0843954159 Number of pages: 357 Publisher: Leisure Books |
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Book Reviews of the City Of The Dead
Customer Review: Okay, but.....
Summary: 3 Stars
To me, the book grew tedious and repetitive very quickly.
This is the follow-up to Keene's "The Rising" which I loved. An entire new take on the zombie genre. Keene added intelligence to the zombies along with zombie animals.
The City of the Dead picks up where The Rising left off.
Although not necessary, I recommend reading The Rising before you read City of the Dead.
The main characters are brought back and some new ones added.
Having read the first book, I found this one to be tedious is some ways. Like the first, its premise is a group of humans trying to survive attack after attack, trying to find safety somewhere, only to be discovered by the zombies and having again, to flee.
There are only so many ways to be killed and reanimated. After awhile the shock value wears off.
Keene could have taken this book in another, much more interesting direction when the subject of "magic" was brought up. I was hoping this was going to be a new plot development. Sadly, it was mentioned, then is just forgotten it seems. I got the impression Keene took the easier way out.
The end of The Rising had a good cliff hanger. There was also left open many possibilities that The City of the Dead did not have.
If you love zombie fiction you will probably like it. But again, as I said, there are only so many ways to decimate the human body without a stronger plot before it gets tiresome.