Review: Cruise of a life (and dead) time!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
Get ready for a long trip. The book is long and I didn’t read it in one sitting, but zombie fans who appreciate Bebb’s work will thoroughly enjoy the voyage and flip the pages with anticipation. As in all of the Keck stories, this one excels in telling the story from multiple perspectives, from dwarfs, to toddlers, to sexual predators, and many more fully fleshed out characters. The prose can be really fun. For example: “Her piercing voice cut through and drowned out the occasional grunts and yells coming from the infected like a weed whacker through tall grass.” and one of my favorites, “The dried thick crust of mucous around his eyes cracked and crumbled to the carpeting in both fairly large chunks and tiny sand-like amounts as the man gurgled in a low pitched phlegmatic pained way.” While gruesome and horrifying as a good zombie book should be, there is discernible comedic relief that Bebb fans have come to love. Bebb left off with a beautiful setup for a final zombie showdown. Look forward to it immensely. Well done Mr. Bebb!PS: And I enjoy his commentary about writing almost more than the story. A real bonus!