jennyreadsalot's review
adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
This was good fun. I read it about 5 times and each time took a different route.
It’s just silly fun times, very campy and silly. Stereotypical and over the top on some storylines but good fun all the same.
To me it’s a bathroom book for those times you’re gonna be in there for a while and not so much a sit down and read cover to cover kind of thing
It’s just silly fun times, very campy and silly. Stereotypical and over the top on some storylines but good fun all the same.
To me it’s a bathroom book for those times you’re gonna be in there for a while and not so much a sit down and read cover to cover kind of thing
pretzelstick's review
3.0
a quick & wacky choose-your-own adventure zombie apocalypse edition. perfect gift for friends & family this spooky season!
okay so it’s a regular smegular monday. you’re at work, receptionist runs in and tell everyone to turn on the news. there is chaos everywhere
okay so it’s a regular smegular monday. you’re at work, receptionist runs in and tell everyone to turn on the news. there is chaos everywhere
aleasreads's review
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
leland_hw's review
2.0
I love the idea of a zombie infestation choose-your-own-adventure book. This alone is worth 2 stars. The protagonist of the story, however was really quite an unlikable jerk in every scenario, so I really couldn't relate to him at all. Maybe only jerks will survive the zombie plagues, in which case, I think I'd rather be a zombie. Still. Great idea.
victoria_2002's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
Wow the writing is very misogynistic 🤢
alliebarlow's review
3.0
Picked this up and thought it would be fun to read with my partner who isn't a big reader. I'm giving it three stars because having a few drinks and debating the merits of each choice was a fun experience and led to some nice conclusions to different plot points.
Why this fun book doesn't score any higher for me though is that some of the plots are short and don't develop. Also, some of the choices given seem really limited and at time don't make logical sense.
I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for something fun to read and to not take anything too seriously because at times this book got ridiculous.
Why this fun book doesn't score any higher for me though is that some of the plots are short and don't develop. Also, some of the choices given seem really limited and at time don't make logical sense.
I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for something fun to read and to not take anything too seriously because at times this book got ridiculous.
sturm220's review
3.0
This was a super fun read ... I think I went through all of the choices, but it's hard to really know. Some of the adventures were pretty intense and I ended up dreaming about them!
jarichan's review
3.0
Ein typisches Choose Your Own Adventure-Buch, aber für ein erwachsenes Publikum. Das hat nicht nur mit dem Thema zu tun, sondern auch mit einigen Szenen, die nicht unbedingt kindertauglich sind ;)
Wie meistens in diesem Genre ist der Schreibstil schlicht und einfach gehalten, sodass auch Personen, die weniger oder selten lesen, damit gut zurecht kommen werden. Überhaupt denke ich, dass diese Art von Buch gut für Menschen geeignet ist, die mehr lesen wollen, aber sich noch nicht so wirklich daran heran trauen.
Ich habe ein paar Runden durchgespielt und fühlte mich dabei ganz gut unterhalten. Zwei Mal gestorben, zwei Mal überlebt. Danach war meine Neugierde auf diesen Titel befriedigt. Zombie-Fans kommen hier gut auf ihre Kosten und werden auch ein paar ihrer Lieblingsfilme zumindest erwähnt finden oder auch ein paar Anspielungen entdecken.
Wie meistens in diesem Genre ist der Schreibstil schlicht und einfach gehalten, sodass auch Personen, die weniger oder selten lesen, damit gut zurecht kommen werden. Überhaupt denke ich, dass diese Art von Buch gut für Menschen geeignet ist, die mehr lesen wollen, aber sich noch nicht so wirklich daran heran trauen.
Ich habe ein paar Runden durchgespielt und fühlte mich dabei ganz gut unterhalten. Zwei Mal gestorben, zwei Mal überlebt. Danach war meine Neugierde auf diesen Titel befriedigt. Zombie-Fans kommen hier gut auf ihre Kosten und werden auch ein paar ihrer Lieblingsfilme zumindest erwähnt finden oder auch ein paar Anspielungen entdecken.
mehsi's review
5.0
4.5 stars! This is quite the original, creative book.
You have choices to make now - lots of them. Moral dilemmas. Strategic decisions. Weapons. Vehicles. Will you be a hero? Or will you cover your own ass at all costs? Will you survive the coming hours, days, weeks, and months? Or will you die amidst the chaos and violence of a zombie uprising?
Or worse of all, will you become one of them...?
The choice is yours. And hey, if you don't make it - you've got no one to blame but yourself.
I recently read another book by Max Brallier, and I wanted to know if he wrote other stuff. Thus I stumbled upon this book, I was interested, zombies are one of my favourite scary monsters, and I just loved how the cover looked (like a paperback from the 70s or 80s). But then I saw something even more awesome than zombies, even better than the cover. I saw this was an choose-your-own-adventure book! I love those! I was curious as to how it would be done, how many bad endings there were, how many good endings, how many endings were we have to fill in the dots ourselves.
But first I started reading it, I followed a route, but bumped into so many choices that I decided to make a chart. So I got my dear boyfriend, and we both started typing down all the possible endings, all the possible routes, and by Lord, it is BIG, HUGE, there are countless of routes, countless of endings. Some routes are really small and are relatively easily reached (and some of them don't have too many sideroads), but some take ages to go through before you hit the ending of that route. The biggest one is the military-based storyline. One I kind of enjoyed, but also kind of didn't. Yeah, I am conflicted.
So yeah, I had a chart, and I decided to read it, since I want to reach most of the stories and the endings, and while I could do it blindly, I prefer a chart so I know exactly what line I followed, and which one I didn't.
This book is terrific. Of course the whole You did this, and You did that, took some time to get used to, but after a while you don't even think it is weird or strange and you just get lost in the story. The story about a guy, with a dead-end job, getting lost in the zombie apocalypse. Every choice you make leads to something, death, freedom, or something else. At times I really liked the guy, at other times I just wanted to shake him around. I know, I picked the choices, but dear Lord, that guy wasn't really the smartest even without me picking the choices.
At times I was just laughing my butt off from various situations which were just super hilarious, or silly. Or just because of puns, jokes (yes, even in the apocalypse one makes jokes).
We meet various people, depending on the choices you make. I didn't like all the of the characters we meet, but generally we do have some great characters. I especially liked Yakuma, and Chuck. They were fantastic and they really kicked ass. Well, especially Yakuma. Stripper + swords + kick ass moves = WOW.
Yes, you heard that right. Stripper. This book isn't for the kiddies. There is tons of gore, quite a few references to drugs and alcohol, a bit of swearing, and several other things. Now the gore can also be present in some kid/YA books, but generally those keep it quite clean.
But this book made me feel a bit sick in the stomach. Guts, intestines, heads being blown off, zombies tucking in a human.
The book also gave me a lot of goosebumps. Even though the main character wasn't one I identify with (I am a woman for starters), with the POV we have, we were just smack dab in the middle of all the horrible stuff that happened. It was at times really gruesome, normally you can distance yourself a bit, still feeling sorry for the character of course, but you aren't as close to the action as it was with this book.
I still got some routes to finish, some endings to find, but I did most of them. My favourites would be Yakuma, Chuck and the apartment building story.
There was another thing I didn't like, but that didn't have to do with the book, and more to do with my ereader. I still want to mention it though, as this is a review, and I want to mention everything.
You could click on the choices, but sadly my ereader hated doing that, often flipping out, it sometimes took quite a few tries before I could get my ereader to understand that I wanted to click a link, and not wanted it to open the menus. That was quite annoying, as I just wanted to continue the story, find out about stuff, and then my ereader would just be like: NOPE.
All in all, this is one book I would really recommend to everyone. Looking for a fun, creepy, scary book? A book in which you can decide what happens to characters, main character? Then this is one you should check out.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
You have choices to make now - lots of them. Moral dilemmas. Strategic decisions. Weapons. Vehicles. Will you be a hero? Or will you cover your own ass at all costs? Will you survive the coming hours, days, weeks, and months? Or will you die amidst the chaos and violence of a zombie uprising?
Or worse of all, will you become one of them...?
The choice is yours. And hey, if you don't make it - you've got no one to blame but yourself.
I recently read another book by Max Brallier, and I wanted to know if he wrote other stuff. Thus I stumbled upon this book, I was interested, zombies are one of my favourite scary monsters, and I just loved how the cover looked (like a paperback from the 70s or 80s). But then I saw something even more awesome than zombies, even better than the cover. I saw this was an choose-your-own-adventure book! I love those! I was curious as to how it would be done, how many bad endings there were, how many good endings, how many endings were we have to fill in the dots ourselves.
But first I started reading it, I followed a route, but bumped into so many choices that I decided to make a chart. So I got my dear boyfriend, and we both started typing down all the possible endings, all the possible routes, and by Lord, it is BIG, HUGE, there are countless of routes, countless of endings. Some routes are really small and are relatively easily reached (and some of them don't have too many sideroads), but some take ages to go through before you hit the ending of that route. The biggest one is the military-based storyline. One I kind of enjoyed, but also kind of didn't. Yeah, I am conflicted.
So yeah, I had a chart, and I decided to read it, since I want to reach most of the stories and the endings, and while I could do it blindly, I prefer a chart so I know exactly what line I followed, and which one I didn't.
This book is terrific. Of course the whole You did this, and You did that, took some time to get used to, but after a while you don't even think it is weird or strange and you just get lost in the story. The story about a guy, with a dead-end job, getting lost in the zombie apocalypse. Every choice you make leads to something, death, freedom, or something else. At times I really liked the guy, at other times I just wanted to shake him around. I know, I picked the choices, but dear Lord, that guy wasn't really the smartest even without me picking the choices.
At times I was just laughing my butt off from various situations which were just super hilarious, or silly. Or just because of puns, jokes (yes, even in the apocalypse one makes jokes).
We meet various people, depending on the choices you make. I didn't like all the of the characters we meet, but generally we do have some great characters. I especially liked Yakuma, and Chuck. They were fantastic and they really kicked ass. Well, especially Yakuma. Stripper + swords + kick ass moves = WOW.
Yes, you heard that right. Stripper. This book isn't for the kiddies. There is tons of gore, quite a few references to drugs and alcohol, a bit of swearing, and several other things. Now the gore can also be present in some kid/YA books, but generally those keep it quite clean.
But this book made me feel a bit sick in the stomach. Guts, intestines, heads being blown off, zombies tucking in a human.
The book also gave me a lot of goosebumps. Even though the main character wasn't one I identify with (I am a woman for starters), with the POV we have, we were just smack dab in the middle of all the horrible stuff that happened. It was at times really gruesome, normally you can distance yourself a bit, still feeling sorry for the character of course, but you aren't as close to the action as it was with this book.
I still got some routes to finish, some endings to find, but I did most of them. My favourites would be Yakuma, Chuck and the apartment building story.
There was another thing I didn't like, but that didn't have to do with the book, and more to do with my ereader. I still want to mention it though, as this is a review, and I want to mention everything.
You could click on the choices, but sadly my ereader hated doing that, often flipping out, it sometimes took quite a few tries before I could get my ereader to understand that I wanted to click a link, and not wanted it to open the menus. That was quite annoying, as I just wanted to continue the story, find out about stuff, and then my ereader would just be like: NOPE.
All in all, this is one book I would really recommend to everyone. Looking for a fun, creepy, scary book? A book in which you can decide what happens to characters, main character? Then this is one you should check out.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/