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Thunder and Ashes by Z. A. Recht

anubis9's review against another edition

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5.0

Wow! I thought the first book was pretty good, but this one was awesome!

This book is the best zombie movie never made. This book introduces a lot more action and a faster pace than the first, but that doesn’t mean it’s just a mindless summer blockbuster of a book. The characters continue to grow on you, and old favorites as well as new friends are fleshed out and developed beyond the two-dimensional cannon fodder so common in the genre.

The Morningstar Strain continues to become one of the best and well-documented sources of the “zombie plague.” This series is a ground zero look at [b:World War Z|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165766703s/8908.jpg|817], and it’s just the book to keep zombie action fans happy.

The only disappointment is that I have to wait for book three to discover how the plots clever twists are going to be resolved. I hope I don’t have to wait too long.

catladylover94's review against another edition

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5.0

really good second book, read in one day

tweetyandy's review against another edition

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5.0

Love this series.

rovertoak's review against another edition

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5.0

What I learned: that in Recht's books, people are more terrifying than zombies. Not an original idea, but well executed here. This book does not suffer from the "middle book" syndrome that book-two-out-of-three-in-a-trilogy entries do. The fast pace and constant action of the first book is present here as well. Now the wait for #3 begins!

mindym99's review against another edition

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4.0

I can't wait for the third in this saga. I've finally found something to compare to The Stand. It took me awhile to get into the characters but now they're like old friends.
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