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Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel |  | Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Seller: cbobooks
Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 220906
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1560258667
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781560258667
ASIN: 1560258667
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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Product Description
In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret to the Epidemic but she has lost everything — even her name. David Wellington's first novel, Monster Island, explored a world overcome by horror and the few people strong enough to survive. Now he takes us back in time to where it all began — to the day the dead began to rise.
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 Great series! Very imaginitive, not your run of the mill zombie book. June 18, 2010
K. McMillan (California)
I read this series the first time online, for free, and LOVED IT! When it was published I had to have it and I gave it as gifts one year for Christmas to a couple of friends that I knew would enjoy them.
I read a lot... and love the sci-fi and horror genre books... so I had read quite a few zombie novels before I got to Wellington's series and I have to say that he takes a really interesting spin on things. This 3-book series just kept getting stranger and stranger but in a good way.
I would also highly recommend his other stories... he did a few more with totally awesome spins on werewolves and vampires.
LOVE 'EM!
 a big mess.... and not in entertaining ways June 15, 2010
Anna (Mass)
Just like "Monster Island" this one starts out GREAT!
Lots of characters and interesting concepts, a dramatic twist here some crazy zombie developments there... and then he bravely blazes the trail into a wall and crashes. All the brilliant ideas are never followed through properly and just dumped halfway ("infection" origins from prison? The "Source"? Turning by any death or those bitten by the undead first?)
What the writer did however, can only be described as a "bad MarySue fanfic doing a Wolverine high on medichlorians" halfway thru Chapter Two. A zombie can go invisible? Heal itself perfectly to look/smell fresh as a daisy healthy human? GO INVISIBLE??
And then the "magical mysticism" or whatever that was supposed to be. It couldn't make up its mind on what it was trying to be or what direction to go!
We all enjoy a good plot twist, but it needs to make sense or at least stick to the world's established laws and mythology.
Not that good May 13, 2010
Kevin Brown (Delaware)
I decided to give this a try despite not particularly enjoying Monster Island. Unfortunately I did not care for this book either. Aside from the fact that the main character is a 61 year old Army National Guard Captain (you do not have 61 year old captains in the army, captains are generally in their late 20's or early 30's) the book just seems to ramble around. I didn't find it scary, exciting or entertaining and some of it was downright silly. I believe I will pass on the third book in the trilogy and look for some better zombie fiction.
The Fall of America to the Zombie Hordes July 17, 2009
Cody Carlson (Salt Lake City, UT United States)
David Wellington's sequel to "Zombie Island" is just as much fun as the original. "Zombie Nation" is actually a prequel that shows the downfall of the United States as the zombie infection spreads at an alarming rate, turning average citizens into flesh-eating ghouls. Dark, mysterious forces guide the central characters, sentient zombies and humans alike, as the world falls apart around them and a new hell on Earth unfolds. The source of the zombie infection is explained here, as is just how such unbounded evil has taken hold of the country. This book is enjoyable from beginning to end and is another fine entry into the genre of zombie fiction.
The Irony Of, "Monster Nation" May 16, 2009
Destiny Rodriguez (Shinglewood, Ca)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I will have to agree with some of the other Amazon reviewers: "Monster Island" was SO much better than this book. David Wellington had a terrific way of creating a zombie story complete with interesting characters and suspenseful situations. Every chapter seemed to end in a cliff-hanger fashion that practically forced you to flip the page and keep reading.
Hungry for more, I picked up, "Monster Nation"... and was disappointed.
To me, the 2nd book was basically a rehash of the first minus the suspense. A meta-zombie brought back, being led by some enigmatic figure... wasn't that in the first one? Sure, in "Monster Island", the zombie was a man and it took place in New York, but it just felt too similar to me, and that's the ironic thing about, "Monster Nation". It's a story about zombies, people that were once alive returning to life, yet the story itself is "zombified"... already used once and brought back to be used again.
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