Review: Chilling, Evocative & Well-Written
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
What I like about Marie F Crow's "The Risen" series is that it's not just your garden variety zombie horror series with gore, terror and not much else... rather it is a sweeping and deeply emotionally charged story that is set amid a world of the dead and the challenges  that Helena Hawthorn faces as she tries to keep her family safe from the dead that have risen. Each one of the books is well-written with a building story, weaving a larger tale about family, love, survival, strength, death, danger and the price to be paid in a world were zombies creep around every corner you find.Ms. Crow has a talent for writing that is deeply evocative, vibrant in imagery, uses strong dialogue to push the story along and capitalizes on authentic characters that add layer after layer to each of the novels. The series is creepy, chilling, eerie and terror inducing... making for a truly entertaining read that balances perfectly to the human elements of a good drama. By the time I had finished the fourth book "Courage" I was utterly captivated by the series and eager to see what else can spring forth from the author's imaginative mind. Overall, this was a fantastic compilation series that engaged me from start to finish and has me eager for more.