Review: Lives up to its title: MAXIMUM VIOLENCE!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
I got to give it to Glynn James & Michael Stephen Fuchs on this one.  It sure LIVED up to its' title: MAXIMUM VIOLENCE!  Yikes!  Action - Action - Action - then toss in tons of extremely INTENSE Action - add in thousands of killer zombies (fast, slow, and hungry), and then top it off with even more relentless INTENSE action!  Wow!  I'm tired and all I did was read this novella (at 232 pages is it still considered a novella?)........The story took place in 4 different locations with each location having their own set of zombie/human problems.  Each storyline went to the MAX level of violence possible, always taking the characters from the frying pan into the fire.  I have read 3 other Arisen novellas plus the prequel (written by just Fuchs).  I have rated 3 of those stories 5-star and the last Arisen story 4-stars.  Well, I am back to 5-Stars and I would give this one 6 or more if I could.  Even with all that was going on with the 4 different storylines, I was looking for a 5th.  Will we find out what happened to the Alpha operator who took off to search for his family at the end of Book 3?  Or will that storyline be in Book 5?If you love zombie stories you got to try this series out.  In my review of the first Arisen story I wrote that the authors seemed to have written this series JUST for me.  I totally love a good zombie story and special force action thrillers.  With Arisen, you get both of these elements to the MAX!  I need to read a Matt Reilly or Jeremy Robinson thriller next just to slow down my pulse back to normal after reading this baby (just kidding Matt & Jeremy, you know I love your action thrillers as well)!