Review: Great Zombie series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
The Rift series combines many of the things I like.First, zombies: I don't really know why, but zombie stories have always appealed to me, and Robert J. Duperre's way of tackling the subject is original and refreshing.Second: good stories. Might sound obvious for a reader to say, but managing to pull it off is not always easy for a writer to do. The Rift's storyline is complex and ambitious, yet it never gets you lost, just hooked and wanting to know what's going to happen. I also appreciated the fact that from the start, the author told his readers that there would be four books: he knew where he was going and how things would finish. I prefer that to The Walking Dead, a comparable piece of work on many points, except that now it's turning in circles.Third: solid characters. The Rift is not a succession of action scenes only, and the zombies actually matter less than the humans, whose thoughts and relationships offer the novel its depth.Fourth: style. Duperre's prose is literary without being pompous, is well-polished without seeming unnatural. You always know there's been a lot of work on the author's part when complex things read easily.Fifth: talent. That's the one thing not many people have. I discovered Robert J. Duperre completely by accident, and I've kept wondering what makes an author famous or not ever since. How come he's not selling millions already? Because in my opinion, he deserves to be.