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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Action starts fast, but totally plot driven. I gave up after 4 days. ( ) Monster Plant is the third book in David Wellington’s Monster trilogy about a zombie apocalypse that has overtaken the Earth. This book opens twelve years after the beginning of apocalypse and the remaining humans are sheltering in a military camp in Egypt. Most zombies are mindless creatures with a craving for human flesh, but some of the zombies have evolved into superior beings that lead the armies of undead. I enjoyed the first book of this trilogy but have been disappointed with the next two books. The plot was garbled and all over the place even to the point of having Egyptian mummies enter the fray. I think the author both overdid himself and added to the confusion with the addition of so many supernatural elements. I almost gave up on this book but decided to push through so I could count this as a completed trilogy. Monster Plant was a disappointing book, but at least I can check off this trilogy as completed. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone as even hard-core zombie lovers would be put off by this convoluted mess. The third of the trilogy, Monster Planet is a little slower than the previous two. I felt confused by one character's sudden turn to embrace a zombie friend -- just think it needed some internal dialogue to segue into the obviously illogical embrace. Good read -- not great. It will stay in my library. A mediocre finish to Wellington's nouveau zombie trilogy, with the focus again placed on the so-called "liches;" undead people who have retained their human thinking facilities. True to the title, the plot jumps from continent to continent, from Egypt to Manhattan, but all this hopping around and the assembly-line antics of new villain the Tsarevich give the story a thin, contrived feel. It has its moments, of course, but if anything it makes one nostalgic for the slick, supergory simplicity of the first book. no reviews | add a review
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Surviving the end of the world was the easy part? It's twelve years since the dead came back. Ravening, mindless zombies have devoured almost every living thing on the planet. The few, scattered survivors are surviving on canned goods and a refusal to give in and die. They are lead by Ayaan, a former child soldier turned brilliant strategist. She's twenty-eight years old, in a world where the average life expectancy is twenty-five. Together with her adopted ward Sarah, who has the psychic ability to see the life-force of the undead, she's gathered a few hundred survivors in Africa and given them safety, something to eat, and the possibility of a future. It would be a lot easier if the zombies weren't so well organized. Out of the east a dead prince has risen. The Tsarevich, the most powerful lich the world has yet seen, is able to command his fellow zombies and has crafted them into an unstoppable army. He has swept across Russia and eastern Europe, hunting down every survivor he can find. He's about to come down on Ayaan and her desert oasis like a tidal wave of death and horror. Yet quickly enough Ayaan realizes he's not just out for her destruction. He has something else in mind, a goal that will take him--and her--across oceans, all the way back to Colorado where the first zombies rose from the grave. He's going back to the Source and when he reaches it, no one will ever be safe again. The fate of all life on the planet is up for grabs, and if Ayaan and Sarah can't stop him there will be no more second chances? No library descriptions found.
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