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Euphoria-Z follows several main characters that take their own paths through the story. Towards the end their paths converge in a thrilling action scene that’s reminiscent of some Walking Dead episodes. Cooper is an athletic high school student that’s about to start his senior year when the outbreak happens. He takes it upon himself to help those in need. I suppose Cooper could be considered the main character as he’s the first to be introduced and one of the main story lines that intersect the rest. The other characters story lines seem to wander off, get absorbed by other characters stories or simply get killed off. There is a band of outlaw bikers (the 1% for those of you who know their biker lingo). These are degenerate, murderous, rapists that somehow survived the apocalypse and now seek to take advantage of everyone they come across. They’re only interest is to retrieve the comforts of their old criminal lives. Drugs, guns and women. Fortunately for them, they stumble upon all three which leave them free to pursue their other desire, revenge. Which sets them on a course to clash violently with the other characters in the story.

The characters are all well developed and some of them, mostly the bikers, were entertaining to read. The characters only flaws were the frivolous and sometimes childish conversations they would have with one another. Although the dialogue lacks depth the gore and state of decay of the zombie hordes that constantly surround the characters are described with excellent detail. The various states of rot and mutilation that the zombies were in were always amusing. Especially in the beginning of the story when people are first starting to turn. As in the title the disease that spreads puts people into a state of complete euphoria where they have a single minded desire to, essentially, party until they die. Once they die they have a ravenous hunger for flesh, but their earlier state of non-stop party leaves them in various states of indecency. Which is interesting and humorous in its concept and execution.

This is a great zombie horror tale, but it’s also a story of survival as it starts to dig into the nuts and bolts of living in a post-apocalyptic world. This is good and bad at times as the drama and character driven story, although engaging, is constantly broken up by long bits of technical development of the characters living situation; scavenging, fortifying a building, building an elevator. This is a fine addition to the zombie genre and I wouldn’t mind reading the next book in the Z series.

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HungryMonster | 2 other reviews | Mar 10, 2016 |
Euphoria-Z follows several main characters that take their own paths through the story. Towards the end their paths converge in a thrilling action scene that’s reminiscent of some Walking Dead episodes. Cooper is an athletic high school student that’s about to start his senior year when the outbreak happens. He takes it upon himself to help those in need. I suppose Cooper could be considered the main character as he’s the first to be introduced and one of the main story lines that intersect the rest. The other characters story lines seem to wander off, get absorbed by other characters stories or simply get killed off. There is a band of outlaw bikers (the 1% for those of you who know their biker lingo). These are degenerate, murderous, rapists that somehow survived the apocalypse and now seek to take advantage of everyone they come across. They’re only interest is to retrieve the comforts of their old criminal lives. Drugs, guns and women. Fortunately for them, they stumble upon all three which leave them free to pursue their other desire, revenge. Which sets them on a course to clash violently with the other characters in the story.

The characters are all well developed and some of them, mostly the bikers, were entertaining to read. The characters only flaws were the frivolous and sometimes childish conversations they would have with one another. Although the dialogue lacks depth the gore and state of decay of the zombie hordes that constantly surround the characters are described with excellent detail. The various states of rot and mutilation that the zombies were in were always amusing. Especially in the beginning of the story when people are first starting to turn. As in the title the disease that spreads puts people into a state of complete euphoria where they have a single minded desire to, essentially, party until they die. Once they die they have a ravenous hunger for flesh, but their earlier state of non-stop party leaves them in various states of indecency. Which is interesting and humorous in its concept and execution.

This is a great zombie horror tale, but it’s also a story of survival as it starts to dig into the nuts and bolts of living in a post-apocalyptic world. This is good and bad at times as the drama and character driven story, although engaging, is constantly broken up by long bits of technical development of the characters living situation; scavenging, fortifying a building, building an elevator. This is a fine addition to the zombie genre and I wouldn’t mind reading the next book in the Z series.

Reviewed at The Hungry Monster Book Review
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HungryMonster | 2 other reviews | Mar 10, 2016 |
I read Euphoria-Z by Luke Ahearn. A particularly brutal depiction of life after a total collapse of order. I've read a couple of zombie novels but tend to watch more zombie shows/movies. The shows and movies I've watched can't compare to the detail of the grotesque state of the humans after they come back. There were a couple times that the descriptions made me both smile and go "eww". An added "He was wearing one shoe" at the end of a description about "flesh just gouged out of his body" seemed odd but was a nice addition.
What I liked most was the multiple character POVs and the connections between them all. As much as I would like to think the world and the people left in it would react better, I feel like Luke captured some real aspects of human nature. Whether they were good or bad.
Overall, I enjoyed the separate but related stories and characters. There were a few times where I had to reread a description of the action taking place. I'm not sure why but some of it just didn't seem to explain what was happening very well. After rereading it made sense, just disrupted my flow of reading enough that I had to put the book down a couple of times. I hope this is only something to do with me though. The book as a whole made up for it. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone looking to read more horror, post apocalyptic or zombie novels.
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