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A review by severina2001
Dark of Night - Flesh and Fire by Rachael Lavin, Jonathan Maberry, Lucas Mangum
3.0
Third book in the series about a zombie apocalypse that begins in rural Stebbins County, PA.
Things have gone from bad to worse in the months after the escape from Stebbins. The US government dropped nuclear bombs on its own soil, which only killed some survivors, created radiated zombies, and resulted in EMPs. Dez and her bus of school kids have been separated from the others, and are trapped on the side of the road. This novel brings in Joe Ledger (and his freakin' awesome dog, Baskerville) – a character from another of Maberry's novel series – who teams up with Dez and another new character, a cosplayer named Rachael Elle.
Generally speaking, the novel bounces along nicely as the trio do their best to defeat zombies and the Nu Klux Klan, who are exactly as loathsome as the name suggests. According to the notes in the book, Lavin was a participant in a student writing program hosted by Maberry. Her lack of experience shows, as her sections of the book are quite simplistic both in writing style and in plotting. The constant play-by-play descriptions of the fights and Rachael's annoying habit of calling the zombies 'orcs' and the over-the-top earnestness of the character – ugh to all of it. Joe and Dez's sections help to make up for it, but there are also a lot of grammatical and typographical errors that really stood out. Not sure how they made it to print.
Things have gone from bad to worse in the months after the escape from Stebbins. The US government dropped nuclear bombs on its own soil, which only killed some survivors, created radiated zombies, and resulted in EMPs. Dez and her bus of school kids have been separated from the others, and are trapped on the side of the road. This novel brings in Joe Ledger (and his freakin' awesome dog, Baskerville) – a character from another of Maberry's novel series – who teams up with Dez and another new character, a cosplayer named Rachael Elle.
Generally speaking, the novel bounces along nicely as the trio do their best to defeat zombies and the Nu Klux Klan, who are exactly as loathsome as the name suggests. According to the notes in the book, Lavin was a participant in a student writing program hosted by Maberry. Her lack of experience shows, as her sections of the book are quite simplistic both in writing style and in plotting. The constant play-by-play descriptions of the fights and Rachael's annoying habit of calling the zombies 'orcs' and the over-the-top earnestness of the character – ugh to all of it. Joe and Dez's sections help to make up for it, but there are also a lot of grammatical and typographical errors that really stood out. Not sure how they made it to print.