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Monster Island: A Zombie Novel

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Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

75 reviews
Sales Rank: 38046

Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1

ISBN: 1560258500
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781560258506
ASIN: 1560258500

Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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It's one month after a global disaster. The most "developed" nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive — in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies, Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world — and perhaps the evil genius behind it all. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb, a former United Nations weapons inspector, leads them as their local guide. Ayaan, a crack shot at the age of sixteen, will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island they will find that there is something worse even than being undead, as Gary learns the true price of survival.

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4 out of 5 stars

Great concept, crumbles a little towards the end. July 2, 2008
Christopher Raissi (Marietta, Georgia)
An entertaining take on zombie tales. Where he went with the story made it less of a horror book and more of an "us vs. them" or good guys vs. bad guys story, but the characters were kind of interesting and it kept the plot moving along. Worth the read. Also, google the books and you can find them for free online.

4 out of 5 stars

A solid and inventive zombie movie... er, book. June 7, 2008
GOODfly (San Diego, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Anyone who's a fan of George Romero's work will love MONSTER ISLAND. This book reads like one of the classic DEAD movies, full of action and fairly interesting characters caught in bad situations. In fact, a few of MONSTER ISLAND's characters are fairly well, uh, fleshed out? Ha ha. Even better, Wellington throws in some fresh, surprising plot twists along with the usual paint-by-the-numbers zombie fare. Some of the reversals I never saw coming. This is not profound literature by any means, but it is very, very entertaining!

3 out of 5 stars

Decent Start May 16, 2008
Ron (Jersey)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This was a pretty good first horror novel. The writing was pretty crisp and the action flowed along well. There were some plotting problems that seemed to hurt the story a little. The story itself is basically split between a former UN peacekeeper who travels to Manhattan with a group of Somalian women fighters to find aids fighting drugs for their leader, and Gary an intelligent zombie. I though the Gary character was very original, and I liked the slow moving Romero type zombies. I thought the author missed a few good gross out kill moments he could have jumped on. I also didn't like the supernatural element that was added to the story near the end. Mummies, magic and wizards really took me out of the story. I have been reading some bad reviews on the next two books in the series, so I am a little hesitant to continue on with story. Maybe if my reading pile goes down a bit I may give the others a chance.

5 out of 5 stars

Same Old? Same Old? No! May 9, 2008
Frank Scoblete (New York)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Okay, the zombies have taken over the world. There are a few humans left...only part of the zombies' food sources. But there are some twists in this book that take the zombie genre in new directions.

I enjoyed this book immensely...gets five chomps from me!

1 out of 5 stars

Wouldn't recommend May 3, 2008
David (Lancashire)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have now read all three books in this trilogy by David Wellington. The story is ok and I would have given it a three if it stood alone as a zombie novel, however after reading the final book in the trilogy I was so disappointed in the ending I felt as though I had wasted my time in reading any of them. Therefore I decided to give this book only one star because ultimately I felt really deflated and disappointed.

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