Jonathan Maberry
Paperback | Pages: 358 pages Rating: 3.97 | 6051 Users | 505 Reviews
Details About Books Dead of Night (Dead of Night #1)
| Title | : | Dead of Night (Dead of Night #1) |
| Author | : | Jonathan Maberry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 358 pages |
| Published | : | October 25th 2011 by St. Martin's Griffin |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Fiction. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic |
Rendition As Books Dead of Night (Dead of Night #1)
A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang…but a bite.Describe Books Conducive To Dead of Night (Dead of Night #1)
| Original Title: | Dead of Night |
| ISBN: | 031255219X (ISBN13: 9780312552190) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dead of Night #1 |
| Characters: | Lee Hartnup |
Rating About Books Dead of Night (Dead of Night #1)
Ratings: 3.97 From 6051 Users | 505 ReviewsNotice About Books Dead of Night (Dead of Night #1)
You may also read my review here: http://www.mybookishways.com/2011/10/...Its the perfect time for a zombie read,isnt it? Halloween is just around the corner,spooky decorations are going up,and AMCs The Walking Deads Season 2 premiered on Sunday night. Yep,perfect! If youve been following the blog for a while,its no secret that Im a pretty rabid Jonathan Maberry fan,so when I got a copy of Dead of Night,it was all I could do not to drop my current read and dig in. Dead of Night is a zombieNotes:4.5 Stars for Narration by William Dufris3 Stars for Story/ProgressionI went into the story with low expectations. Figured it'll be like a horror story with just enough to establish setting, characters & waves of action and that's what I got. Good entertainment.
Not bad. It's very readable; good characters, good narrative. Problem is that it's all been done before and any zombie fan won't find much of anything new here. Bar one thing, and that's what makes me give this three (and a half - I really, really wish we could give half stars because this book deserves this half one) stars instead of a lower rating. We actually get to see inside the minds of the dead, learn about the people trapped inside there, and that ratchets up the horror of the whole
Dead of Night is a zombie story that takes place in rural Pennsylvania. The background to the story is a little different than your standard. A government scientist working at a prison hospital decides that the lethal injection is too good for a particularly bad serial killer, so he decides to inject him with genetically engineered parasites, which will keep his mind aware while his body rots in the coffin. Things start to go awry when instead of being buried in a government cemetery, an elderly
I haven't been reviewing books as much this year and while I want to change that this probably isn't the best book to start with. Dead of Night was written in the most effortless and trite way possible. The characters were two dimensional clichés, the dialogue was rife with overused movie lines (I seriously kept expecting someone to say 'come with me if you want to live'), and even the situations could have been Frankenstein-ed from a bunch of horror and action movies like a fan-made youtube
I have officially given up on reading zombie books. I just wanted one good one!! Instead, I got a mediocre one about a guy in Spain willing to sacrifice the world for his stupid cat, one that's a political thriller that only said it has zombies in it, and now this book.I don't mind profanity in a book, if it serves a purpose, no other word could possibly describe the situation better, or if it is really how a character would express his/herself. However, when it moves from those uses to "Hey,
**********THERE BE SPOILERS IN THEM THAR HILLS, DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU********************************************* I really, really enjoyed this book. I'm wrestling with giving it either 4 or 5 stars but I think it pushed itself over into a 5 star rating but not holding many punches. I love zombies, movies and stories. Which kinda means I've oversaturated myself with them over the last couple years. I think I love zombies because the stories are usually more about the survivors fighting
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