The end of the world as a result of a pandemic. An entertaining book which centres on the trials and tribulations of two groups of survivors and their efforts to join with each other. ( )

Kearsten says: **Glendale Library doesn't own this one, but if you're interested, you can order it through Interlibrary Loan like I did (just ask a librarian to help ya!)**

I've been making my way through quite a few zombies novels, and thankfully, this one doesn't (at least not yet) delve into the mystical realm. The zombies here are victims of a nasty virus that incapacitates its victims to the point where they are driven, very aggressively, to spread the virus. As the virus, dubbed the Morningstar Virus, is spread through direct contact via bodily fluids, the virus victims are driven to attack and bite anyone uninfected.

More frightening, the virus is capable of reanimating the bodies after human death - thus survivors have to fight off "sprinters" - the still living carriers - and "shamblers" - the reanimated corpses of carriers.

The narrative follows two groups of survivors: a military scientist who is the leading expert on Morningstar and the journalist to whom she "leaks" top secret information about the crisis; and a military group, lead by a general who must get his men and a crowd of refugees away from Africa, where the virus first breaks out.

This was fast-paced and exciting, full of intriguing characters and lots of bloody deaths - yahoo for zombies! ( )

I've been making my way through quite a few zombies novels, and thankfully, this one doesn't (at least not yet) delve into the mystical realm. The zombies here are victims of a nasty virus that incapacitates its victims to the point where they are driven, very aggressively, to spread the virus. As the virus, dubbed the Morningstar Virus, is spread through direct contact via bodily fluids, the virus victims are driven to attack and bite anyone uninfected.

More frightening, the virus is capable of reanimating the bodies after human death - thus survivors have to fight off "sprinters" - the still living carriers - and "shamblers" - the reanimated corpses of carriers.

The narrative follows two groups of survivors: a military scientist who is the leading expert on Morningstar and the journalist to whom she "leaks" top secret information about the crisis; and a military group, lead by a general who must get his men and a crowd of refugees away from Africa, where the virus first breaks out.

This was fast-paced and exciting, full of intriguing characters and lots of bloody deaths - yahoo for zombies! ( )

I can honestly say this is the worst written book I've ever bought on the basis of reviewer praise.
I love the genre - and WWZ is a 5 star book in my estimation - Plague of the Dead is very hard to push through, and my second major disappointment from the publishing company Permuted Press. PP seems to exist only to publish otherwise unpublishable authors of zombie genre fiction. I recommend people steer clear. ( )

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