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When the End Comes

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

Cell by Stephen King

April 15, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I recently read two books with apocalyptic overtones. Neither were great but both were eminently readable, if weird and unfocused… Cult X * Well then. It’s almost impossible for a book as popular as Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X to get anything less than a 3+ star rating on GoodReads. A book usually has enough vociferous defenders who give it gratuitous 5s to put it over the top. That this one was hovering at 2.97 when I picked it up was not a good sign for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: apocalypse, Cell, crime, cult x, cults, Fuminori Nakamura, Japan, Stephen King, zombies

Jake's CBR13 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: apocalypse, Cell, crime, cult x, cults, Fuminori Nakamura, Japan, Stephen King, zombies ·
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If 28 Days Later and The Road had a daughter

The Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff

March 18, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

This was Round 2 of my ongoing “what’s going in in the world of Irish science fiction?” quest. (Round 1 was here.) First off: great title, no? I was instantly intrigued, especially with the description, and I liked this weird sense I was getting of the post-apocalypse as a site of feminist possibility rather than just endless misogyny and threatened sexual violence. (Sigh.) The premise is straightforward: Orpen lives with her mother and her mother’s partner, Maeve, on an isolated island off the coast of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Ireland, Post Apocalyptic, Sarah Davis-Goff, zombies

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Ireland, Post Apocalyptic, Sarah Davis-Goff, zombies ·
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Did not expect to love a book about zombies

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

December 21, 2020 by Malin 6 Comments

4.5 stars Official book description: The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, cbr12, ensemble cast, horror, Malin, Max Brooks, World War Z, zombies

Malin's CBR12 Review No:82 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, cbr12, ensemble cast, horror, Malin, Max Brooks, World War Z, zombies ·
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Post Apocalyptic Comfort

World War Z by Max Brooks

September 9, 2020 by caragwapa 2 Comments

Is it weird that World War Z is one of my comfort reads? I rarely reread books. I get anxious when I’m rereading because I keep thinking that I should be reading something new. I mean, my to be read list is not getting any shorter. World War Z is one of the few books that I have reread more than once. The others are The Drifters by James Michener, A Ring of Endless Light by L’Engle and Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: caragwapa, cbr12, Max Brooks, post apocalytpic, zombies

caragwapa's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: caragwapa, cbr12, Max Brooks, post apocalytpic, zombies ·
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Looking for a story about a man in love with a cannon?

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

April 30, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

…because have I got the book for you! Men loving cannons, zombies puking up pajamas, purses that can hold whole villages, horror writers that moonlight as upholsterers- this collection houses all of those freaks and geeks- and then some. The novella that gives this collection its title – Magic for Beginners– was the best of the bunch. It was difficult to single out one piece, as they are all delightful mix of suburban longing and creepy crawlies, but this piece reminded me of two of my […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: folk tales, hugo award nominee, Kelly Link, magic, magical realism, modern fairy tale, nebula award winner, oral tradition, storytelling, suburbia, surrealism, zombies

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: folk tales, hugo award nominee, Kelly Link, magic, magical realism, modern fairy tale, nebula award winner, oral tradition, storytelling, suburbia, surrealism, zombies ·
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A realistic look back at surviving the zombie apocalypse

World War Z by Max Brooks

April 10, 2020 by Bothari43 1 Comment

I started reading this before the world jumped headfirst into its own virus apocalypse, then got a bunch of library books and put it aside, then came back to it in the midst of everything. What a difference a few months makes! First of all, I need everyone to know that the author is the son of Mel Brooks. That totally blew my mind. What interesting dinner conversations that family must have! The zombie apocalypse has come and gone, and the world is recovering. A […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, Max Brooks, survival of humanity, zombies

Bothari43's CBR12 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, Max Brooks, survival of humanity, zombies ·
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