Review: Series going strong
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2012
I'm a huge fan of Living with the Dead by Joshua Guess - see my reviews for Book 1 and 2.I am not much for the blog b/c it drives me crazy to read just one entry a day.  So I was excited to see that both Book 3 and Book 4 are now available.  Just finished Book 3 The Hungry Land and I think Guess is getting better.  The characters are fully fleshed (ooooh, bad pun, considering) and I love that Guess the author does not spare Guess the character when he acts like an, hmm, I bet Amazon won't let me say what I was going to say, so let's use "fool".What I like about this series, and what I respect Guess for, is the realism.  (Yeah, I know zombies, but bear with me.)  The characters are not "good guys" and "bad guys".  They are individuals who can be both.  Just when you think you have a character figured out he/she acts or reacts in a surprising way, like Will.  And while there is plenty of zombie fighting, Guess focuses on the human needs and interactions and the inevitable conflicts that arise when people are crammed together, living in constant fear and getting hungrier and hungrier.And just when you might have forgotten, Guess writes a scene at the end of the book of a lone zombie and a fading advertisement that will stop you in your tracks.  What makes us human?Yes, there is too much of Guess' philosophizing, but this is a guy living with the dead, he's entitled to ask what is the meaning of life every now and then.  And there is plenty of action against the dead and the living.  On to Book 4.