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A review by adeselnaferreira
Death Has Come Up Into Our Windows by Stant Litore
2.0
Full review: http://madwomaninattic.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/zombie-bible-i/
I was not expecting something so biblical, perhaps some action, deaths, something more graphical, but, as always, that is the readers fault. What is not our fault is the lack of main goal and conflict. For the most part you keep trying to understand what is Yirmiyahu doing in the middle of chaos. What is his purpose, his goal? We also fail to understand the initial incident. There’s a plague, right, which turns people into walking dead and we find our protagonist inside a well. Then we follow his flashbacks struggling with the absence of action.
The scene with the God Chemosh is the best part of the book. It evokes the cruelty of Gods and the naivety of humans, who are willing to sacrifice children to appease the divinities. Throughout the book the author has done a good job showing us what the humans are capable of in the cruelest way. A city even abandoned by God is certainly a powerful image.
As I have the third book “Stranger in a strange land”, I am looking forward to read the other books. It is true that I have read worse first books from authors, but still it did not satisfy me as a reviewer.
I was not expecting something so biblical, perhaps some action, deaths, something more graphical, but, as always, that is the readers fault. What is not our fault is the lack of main goal and conflict. For the most part you keep trying to understand what is Yirmiyahu doing in the middle of chaos. What is his purpose, his goal? We also fail to understand the initial incident. There’s a plague, right, which turns people into walking dead and we find our protagonist inside a well. Then we follow his flashbacks struggling with the absence of action.
The scene with the God Chemosh is the best part of the book. It evokes the cruelty of Gods and the naivety of humans, who are willing to sacrifice children to appease the divinities. Throughout the book the author has done a good job showing us what the humans are capable of in the cruelest way. A city even abandoned by God is certainly a powerful image.
As I have the third book “Stranger in a strange land”, I am looking forward to read the other books. It is true that I have read worse first books from authors, but still it did not satisfy me as a reviewer.