Review: 4 BONE CRUNCHING STARS!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2012
I have read and enjoyed `Zombies Don't Cry' one of many works by Rusty Fischer. Detention of the Living Dead has reunited me with Rusty's humorous, gory style of writing from teenager's points of view.Who would have thought that these Rejects of the Detention room would have found themselves in the safest place during the `Gym Class Zombie Massacre?Or was it?Who can be trusted?I can't tell you, you have to read the book.Rusty has a wonderful imagination that translates so well on to paper. I found myself invested and rooting for his Zombie characters.Maxine, Cory, Brie, Bobby, Nikki and Jaycee have all found themselves in a rather unfortunate situation. They have become Zombies.Chained to their detention room desks with the Proctor overseeing their possible doom, having to read a comic book , `The Adventures of Gamma Man', the deciding factor in their individual fates.Stun guns, chains, Reapers, Reekers, ginormous burp worthy smoothies, a licence plate worthy of a story and underwater scenes, make up some of the fun in this book.Rusty knows how to keep the pace running at his type of Zombie rate and he will throw all sorts at the reader. Rusty throws in the humour but he also has the reader `feeling' emotion towards his characters. Their loss and what this life now means to them. I liked, `The garden of souls'.There is one scene that had me literally `feeling' his words. It involves the parallel between model plane kits and bones snapping. Another scene involving air shaft vents had me a little anxious with me wanting to hurry Max along.Maxine is a great character, although she makes some mistakes in her endeavour to help her detention class mates ..... well, she has just become a zombie, it takes some adjusting, she is brave and works enough out to help her remaining class mates to relative safety.I loved watching everything kind of flip on certain characters and thy enemy may no longer be thy enemy. A friend may no longer be a friend.Rusty will have you feeling the human to zombie transformation deep down into your bones. This is a fun read with a very Rusty style humor attached to it.The ending makes me think there is the possibility of a sequel........looking forward to it Rusty!FAVE QUOTE:I mean, the whole getting-chased-by-Reapers-and-you-never-know-when-one-is-going-to-pop-out-from-behind-a-tree-and-behead-you thing is a little stressful, to say the least, but I still say that freedom from blisters is almost--almost--worth it.Michelle