Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her “our little genius.”
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh.
They don’t laugh because she’s a zombie, I just saved you an entire chapter of the book!
This was a quick book to read over the holiday and I wasn’t especially wowed by any particular thing, it felt like a cross of a play through Last of Us with one of the more recent Romaro movies with none of the witty storylines that both of those franchises encompass.
Quick to read, can’t really recommend it, but from what I’ve read about the book online, the book story was written separately / at the same time the script development was taking place for the movie of the same name that’s coming out soon. Hopefully the movie goes in a better direction than the book did.
I read this one too, with the same general thoughts. I was expecting something fresh but it seemed to be a pastiche of existing zombie tropes. That said, I thought the movie The Arrival was better than the short story by Ted Chiang, and I hope this movie follows suit.
One of the things that I liked about this book was that it didn’t have an expected ending (nothing that I saw coming anyway). So many books and movies in this genre have the same stupid upbeat endings.
These books really only have two options, one is for humanity to have some hope and the other is for humanity to have no home. I Am Legend is a great example of that. . .
Since we’re SPOILERing away anyway – I actually think the fungus-angle was played rather well.
My horror recommandation for those looking for something of the “fresher” variety would be “Birdbox” by Josh Malerman