monakabbani's review
4.0
“I don’t think there are any good ideas left. It comes down to run or fight from what I see.”
The nation has fallen. The world is in despair. We are run over by zombies and the only goal now is to survive. Catherine Briggs is a survivor. She knows what it takes and will do whatever is necessary to reunite with her family. But when an unexpected visitor comes knocking on her door, will she maintain her strict policy of distrust or risk death for another?
This book reminded me how much I love zombies. I haven’t read a good zombie book or consumed good zombie content in a while and it’s not for any other reason than happenstance. I’ve had Sylvester Barzey’s book in my library for almost a year now (my apologies for that!) and am so glad I picked it up. It was perfectly what I was in the mood for.
This is a fast paced, fun, eccentric cast of characters with a wild storyline. The scares are there and ready to play and the suspense is well done. Barzey leaves the book on a bit of a cliffhanger with questions of what’s to come because it is, yes that’s right, a SERIES! So if you’re looking to dive into something more world consuming, something that’ll be a full journey with horror and guts, this might just be the post-apocalyptic book for you!
The nation has fallen. The world is in despair. We are run over by zombies and the only goal now is to survive. Catherine Briggs is a survivor. She knows what it takes and will do whatever is necessary to reunite with her family. But when an unexpected visitor comes knocking on her door, will she maintain her strict policy of distrust or risk death for another?
This book reminded me how much I love zombies. I haven’t read a good zombie book or consumed good zombie content in a while and it’s not for any other reason than happenstance. I’ve had Sylvester Barzey’s book in my library for almost a year now (my apologies for that!) and am so glad I picked it up. It was perfectly what I was in the mood for.
This is a fast paced, fun, eccentric cast of characters with a wild storyline. The scares are there and ready to play and the suspense is well done. Barzey leaves the book on a bit of a cliffhanger with questions of what’s to come because it is, yes that’s right, a SERIES! So if you’re looking to dive into something more world consuming, something that’ll be a full journey with horror and guts, this might just be the post-apocalyptic book for you!
nihaarikasingh's review
4.0
*Disclaimer*
I received an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book from the author and Caffeine Book Tours as part of my participation in their tour
3.75 stars rounded off to 4
Lately, I've been very much into Zombie movies and books that have apocalyptical themes. So, I was quite excited to start reading this book. Planet Dead ticked all the right boxes for me, with all its elements. It has everything you want from a book with zombies. Catherine, our protagonist, is a badass woman who defeats a lot of zombies as she hunts down her family. She is a very different protagonist than what I am used to, mainly because her thought process is quite intense and ruthless. So, reading from her POV was quite interesting for me. The other characters were pretty interesting too, but I enjoyed reading from Catherine's POV the most. There were certain parts though, where I felt a little bit confused as to what was going on with the plot and things moved a little too fast for my taste, but all in all, Planet Dead was a pretty great read and I enjoyed it a lot.
I received an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book from the author and Caffeine Book Tours as part of my participation in their tour
3.75 stars rounded off to 4
Lately, I've been very much into Zombie movies and books that have apocalyptical themes. So, I was quite excited to start reading this book. Planet Dead ticked all the right boxes for me, with all its elements. It has everything you want from a book with zombies. Catherine, our protagonist, is a badass woman who defeats a lot of zombies as she hunts down her family. She is a very different protagonist than what I am used to, mainly because her thought process is quite intense and ruthless. So, reading from her POV was quite interesting for me. The other characters were pretty interesting too, but I enjoyed reading from Catherine's POV the most. There were certain parts though, where I felt a little bit confused as to what was going on with the plot and things moved a little too fast for my taste, but all in all, Planet Dead was a pretty great read and I enjoyed it a lot.
samarareadstoo's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Thus book was thrilling from beginning to end. I couldn't put it down!
adancewithbooks's review
3.0
Bloodthirsty is not a book I would usually pick up but when the author asked if I wanted to review this book I still said yes. Because what better time to read out of your comfort zone and in the horror genre then at the start of the Fall, with Halloween around the corner?
Let me start by saying that I think the book is well written. The author clearly knows how to write and is able to write compelling action and fighting scenes. They are realistic as well. It seems to be written in third person omniscient. We really do get an overlook on all of the characters. This sometimes created us shifting from one character to the next in a few paragraphs within the same scene. But these shifts were reasonable well incorporated and not jarring at all. There is gore in this book so it isn’t for the weak hearted, but it is all fitting. As in, it isn’t added just for the sake of adding in gore.
In this horror book people have been turning into zombies and people have to fight for their lives. But when people’s survival instinct comes forward, sometimes the worst traits of us do too. It is not just zombies out there that you have to watch out for. I think that aspect of it was compelling but when a portion of that happened I felt that it happened a tad too fast in the story for me. I was still settling into this world and our characters and here we had a crazy ringmaster guy and his brothers. When it comes to the world building we get some idea of how things went from the past from Catherine and Sue, but I kind of miss the big perspective of how things are all over the world. Just a line here and there would have been enough to give the reader the bigger picture.
It was great to see there being female leads in this book. Catherine especially was ready to kick some ass. Sue is someone who will need to grow into her own. She is more soft hearted than Catherine is and that creates a bit of balance in this duo. Catherine is also POC and we do need more of that in the horror genre from what I understand from the author’s backword. Having said that, I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I just couldn’t really seem to care for them. They aren’t flat characters but I still couldn’t warm up to them either. Maybe that is the omniscient point of view. I always feel more detached from characters with this writing style.
Other than that though I think this book is a solid one. I would certainly recommend this one for fans of The Walking dead and fans of zombies in general. And if you want to be creeped out it certainly is great to read during Halloween.
Let me start by saying that I think the book is well written. The author clearly knows how to write and is able to write compelling action and fighting scenes. They are realistic as well. It seems to be written in third person omniscient. We really do get an overlook on all of the characters. This sometimes created us shifting from one character to the next in a few paragraphs within the same scene. But these shifts were reasonable well incorporated and not jarring at all. There is gore in this book so it isn’t for the weak hearted, but it is all fitting. As in, it isn’t added just for the sake of adding in gore.
In this horror book people have been turning into zombies and people have to fight for their lives. But when people’s survival instinct comes forward, sometimes the worst traits of us do too. It is not just zombies out there that you have to watch out for. I think that aspect of it was compelling but when a portion of that happened I felt that it happened a tad too fast in the story for me. I was still settling into this world and our characters and here we had a crazy ringmaster guy and his brothers. When it comes to the world building we get some idea of how things went from the past from Catherine and Sue, but I kind of miss the big perspective of how things are all over the world. Just a line here and there would have been enough to give the reader the bigger picture.
It was great to see there being female leads in this book. Catherine especially was ready to kick some ass. Sue is someone who will need to grow into her own. She is more soft hearted than Catherine is and that creates a bit of balance in this duo. Catherine is also POC and we do need more of that in the horror genre from what I understand from the author’s backword. Having said that, I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I just couldn’t really seem to care for them. They aren’t flat characters but I still couldn’t warm up to them either. Maybe that is the omniscient point of view. I always feel more detached from characters with this writing style.
Other than that though I think this book is a solid one. I would certainly recommend this one for fans of The Walking dead and fans of zombies in general. And if you want to be creeped out it certainly is great to read during Halloween.
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