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I love zombie books and yet I find so few that I really like.

This book combines three things I really love about zombie stories;

1. Interesting, flawed characters to root for

2. Zombies showing up to muck up everything

3. fast paced action mixed with strong world building and character development.

As an added bonus Fredsti has added a few twists to the zombie genre, well, at least they are new to me, first off being the covert government group working to contain the outbreak and past outbreaks around the globe. Sort of a zombie fighting Medicine sans Frontier, but with a different foreign name and a past that would rival the Knights Templar for secrecy.

Into this maelstrom of guts and biting enters the main character, Ashley Parker, she's 30 something, divorced college student. She has an attitude and isn't afraid of confrontation. She's back at school after suffering through an especially harsh strain of the flu, or so she thinks. What's especially great about Ashley is she is a strong friend and speaks up for herself, this is no shrinking violet afraid to hold a gun. She throws herself whole heartedly to her new life as a zombie slayer.

Usually with a book like this the character would do something dumb and sentimental to save her boyfriend or wouldn't believe that the zombies she encounters are killers who are too far gone to be saved. It is definitely one of the strengths of the novel.

Also is the fast pace of the story. From infection to attack to training, it all moved along at a cracking pace. It was a book that I started to worriedly check the bottom corner of my kindle to find out how much of the story was left. I was loving the book so much that I didn't want it to end. When I got to the 80% point, I had to get online to find out if there was a follow up book yet.

Now that is a book I can recommend one that has me searching out the next book by the author.

Read this if you like The Mark Tufo series, World War Z, Apocalypse Z and the Newsflesh series. If you are looking for action, thoughtful and smart people trying to deal with the outbreak in the fastest and cleanest way, then this is the book for you. If you don't want a lot of angst and hopelessness, again, this book pays off. But if you like that in your stories, or a bit of philosophical rambling then this book just wont fit you.

Also, and I can't even believe I have to say this, but this book has flesh eating, zero brained zombies. They don't drive cars, use guns or do anything at all to suggest that they have brain cells firing. These are mindless, brain eating corpses and they don't move very fast, not running full out swarms of bull*&^! zombies like I saw in the World War Z movie.

But as anyone who read the tortoise and the hare, the steady, shambling pace of hungry zombies can quickly overtake a human running full out because humans have to stop to rest occasionally, zoms never do.

Also, the characters call the dead biters zombies from the beginning, there are too many times that I get tossed right out of a zombie book because apparently none of the characters have ever heard of a zombie before.

In every way this book was super fun and interesting and I can't wait to read book 2


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Plague Town An Ashley Parker Novel edition by Dana Fredsti Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

I picked up a copy of Plague Town ( version) because a friend wrote it.

I was very pleasantly surprised - I don't read zombie-killer books... well, I haven't since I gave up on the Anita Blake series.

I whizzed through the thing in about 8 hours of reading, which is very fast for me these days. (I used to be able to read something like this in 8 hours, but that was long ago.)

The characters are well-developed, the plot makes a lot of sense, and the action is pretty engaging. I fear the book won't wear well, because it is tied to recent events and popular culture, but right here, right now, it really works well. I've got the next volume, Plague Nation, queued on my , and I can't wait for the release of the concluding volume, Plague World, to be released.

I really enjoyed the book, and I recommend it highly.
I am a sucker for all things zombie, so when I heard of "Plague Town" I bought it in a hot second. It is the story of a small college town which has been suffering from an outbreak of the Walker's flu. This is a horrible and deadly disease. If you are lucky, you will actually stay dead. Unfortunately corpses are animating again and they are out for human flesh. Ashley is out for a picnic with her boyfriend Matt when they are attacked by the zombies. Ashley finds herself in a medical facility on campus healing from the conflict. Matt isn't as lucky; he was bitten and changed. Now he is being held in the basement of the medical facility for observation but he is one of the walking dead. Ashley quickly learned that she is special. She is one of a very limited amount of people who have been bitten but heal instead of turning. She is considered a 'wild card'. She and some other 'wild cards' are called in by the military to aid in their zombie killing missions. There are risks that group can take because they are immune to zombie bites that regular military personnel can't.

The good This is a fast paced book. Although the plot has been told over and over before, "Plague Nation" was still a lot of fun. I really liked fellow wild cards, Mack and Lil. In fact, I liked them more than I liked Ashley herself, not that I didn't like Ashley. One of the greatest scenes happened when Ashley and Lil decide to go into town to save Lil's cats. Trust me this book is worth reading for that scene alone. The ending was also amazing. I seriously zoomed through the final 25% of the novel and this was a really well plotted and exciting climax between zombies and humans. The author also added some scenes told from the perspective's of the victims or zombies. These were among the more gruesome sequences but they added much needed tension and information.

The not so good At first I really liked how the wild cards immersed themselves in zombie pop culture...everything from tv shows, to books, to movies. But the references got old pretty quickly and nothing ages a book like overdone pop culture references. I think this entire device should be banned by serious authors. As I said earlier, I found the book to be fun but this story has been told so many times before that it was hard to find new twists to tell. Some of the angles employed in the book are new but nothing felt amazingly fresh. We find out a secret about the main male in the story right toward the end of the book. It is a shocker. Ashley should have been more thrown off by the implications of the secret and what that means for the character realistically but she didn't seem worried or bothered nearly enough. After it had time to sink in at least, I would have thought she would have had more questions. This bothered me a little bit.

So overall it was worth reading and I am likely to buy the sequel "Plague Nation". I think the author shows a lot of promise and talent and I'd assume the next installments will get even stronger.
I love zombie books and yet I find so few that I really like.

This book combines three things I really love about zombie stories;

1. Interesting, flawed characters to root for

2. Zombies showing up to muck up everything

3. fast paced action mixed with strong world building and character development.

As an added bonus Fredsti has added a few twists to the zombie genre, well, at least they are new to me, first off being the covert government group working to contain the outbreak and past outbreaks around the globe. Sort of a zombie fighting Medicine sans Frontier, but with a different foreign name and a past that would rival the Knights Templar for secrecy.

Into this maelstrom of guts and biting enters the main character, Ashley Parker, she's 30 something, divorced college student. She has an attitude and isn't afraid of confrontation. She's back at school after suffering through an especially harsh strain of the flu, or so she thinks. What's especially great about Ashley is she is a strong friend and speaks up for herself, this is no shrinking violet afraid to hold a gun. She throws herself whole heartedly to her new life as a zombie slayer.

Usually with a book like this the character would do something dumb and sentimental to save her boyfriend or wouldn't believe that the zombies she encounters are killers who are too far gone to be saved. It is definitely one of the strengths of the novel.

Also is the fast pace of the story. From infection to attack to training, it all moved along at a cracking pace. It was a book that I started to worriedly check the bottom corner of my kindle to find out how much of the story was left. I was loving the book so much that I didn't want it to end. When I got to the 80% point, I had to get online to find out if there was a follow up book yet.

Now that is a book I can recommend one that has me searching out the next book by the author.

Read this if you like The Mark Tufo series, World War Z, Apocalypse Z and the Newsflesh series. If you are looking for action, thoughtful and smart people trying to deal with the outbreak in the fastest and cleanest way, then this is the book for you. If you don't want a lot of angst and hopelessness, again, this book pays off. But if you like that in your stories, or a bit of philosophical rambling then this book just wont fit you.

Also, and I can't even believe I have to say this, but this book has flesh eating, zero brained zombies. They don't drive cars, use guns or do anything at all to suggest that they have brain cells firing. These are mindless, brain eating corpses and they don't move very fast, not running full out swarms of bull*&^! zombies like I saw in the World War Z movie.

But as anyone who read the tortoise and the hare, the steady, shambling pace of hungry zombies can quickly overtake a human running full out because humans have to stop to rest occasionally, zoms never do.

Also, the characters call the dead biters zombies from the beginning, there are too many times that I get tossed right out of a zombie book because apparently none of the characters have ever heard of a zombie before.

In every way this book was super fun and interesting and I can't wait to read book 2