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Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel |  | Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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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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 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)
1 out of 1 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.
 Too Much Hocus Pocus/ Magic and Too Many Unanswered Questions. April 26, 2009
Woodlandtrails
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Monster Nation has too much hocus pocus, magic and too many unanswered questions.
Nilla is a thinking, speaking zombie because she wasn't deprived of oxygen for a long time in the transition between life/death/to zombie. Nilla can't remember her past so she names herself after the wafer cookie. Nilla is periodically graced with the presence of a being called Mael Mag Och who appears out of nowhere to tell her to go East, to keep her on course and give her advice. Mael Mag Och can also "talk" though dead people as well as magically appear as "ghost" figure. Normally, dumb zombies don't attack each other but Mael Mag Och controls them so he orders one to harm Nilla when she doesn't want to go with him.
Mael Mag Och believes in a god called Teuagh also referred to as the Father of the Clans. Teuagh is the one who raised the dead. Och later says Teuagh is not a god but his father but this is not explained anywhere else so how this relates to anything is anyone's guess unless he is referring to an earlier reference to the Father of the Clans in which case why repeat it.
Magically, Nilla can voluntarily become invisible to living creatures such as humans, bears and foxes - the better to catch and eat them. Once she feeds, Zombie Nilla's dead body repairs itself so she is not so hideous. Nilla "sees" an aura around things so she can tell if something is dead or alive by its color. In Monster Nation, animals can become zombies also.
On her way East, she meets Jason Singletary, a live human psychic hermit, who can see her even when Nilla makes herself invisible. Nilla is the first person live or otherwise he has seen in 20 years. His role is extremely short, confusing, and doesn't end well. He shows her with his mind a mountain and tells her to go there. Apparently this is the epicenter or "source" Turns out this human psychic was just being used as a voice of someone else to reach her (not Mael Mag Och) to tell her to go to this place and yet when she eventually arrives there, he says "I can't seem to figure out what you want here" (p278) yet he summoned her.
The whole book was full of unexplained questions. Who made Nilla this way and why? It was alluded that Mael Mag Och did but Och also said there are a couple of others like her. Was Nilla and these few others whose invisible powers allowed them to avoid getting burned by the source, early experiments by the human who created this mess?
Nilla has conflicting emotions over being a zombie and deliberately damages the brain of the living things she eats so they don't become one. She is also obsessed with knowing what her name was before she died which Mael Mag Och promises to tell her if she follows him.
Add to this scenario an armless zombie named Dick who "hears" the voice of Mael Mag Och. Dick is a typical dumb zombie who is guided to travel miles to the site of a fallen star in which a man comes out with a blow horn talking to the zombies but if they get to close they die. (of the light). Turns out this is the "source" which Nilla is traveling to and the light doesn't harm her unlike the other dumb zombies. Why was never explained. This star guy somehow tells Dick to find Nilla and follow her. Dick proceeds to follow Nilla at a distance across the country. Nilla knows Dick is following her but doesn't know why. Is Dick meant to protect Nilla on her journey? If so why send an armless zombie? If Dick is supposed to help guide Nilla to her destination, why is he needed because Nilla has 2 beings, Mael Mag Ochs and the creator of this mess, telling her where to go. Yet Mael Mag Ochs never tells her why or what she is supposed to do when she gets there and the creator of the mess says he doesn't know why either. Nilla doesn't get along well with Dick or Mael Mag Och runs away from them. Nilla disagrees with how Och and his god Teuagh treat live humans.
The end of the book is completely negative and unsatisfying. There are too many characters, too many unexplained happenings and the whole book is confusing.
 Great read! March 13, 2009
Big Bad Daddy (Chicago, IL)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to hand it to David Wellington. I started with Monster Island and now he has be addicted. I really enjoyed his dark yet at times funny take on Zombies in his first book of the series, but this one was even better. I couldn't put it down, I read it over a few days on the commute to work. I really enjoyed Wellington's main Zombie character Nilla, I found myself rooting for her unlike Zombie Gary in Monster Island. How could the end of the world be so fun? Having read Monster Island (which although its the first book in the series, takes place later in the timeline) I enjoyed all the nods to that novel that show up in this one. I also commend the author, since we all know that the epidemic won't be stopped it might have been anti-climactic. But knowing the main character's journeys to find the source of the epidemic and shut it off are somewhat in vain does not lessen the story at all. Thanks for another fantastic read Mr. Wellington. On to Monster Planet...
Underwhelmed February 12, 2009
J. Lee (tempe, az United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Claymore6s review is spot on.
I am former military, but I am not a military snob. I read and watch alot of material that has bad information, but here the military research seems to have been done by watching re-runs of Hogans Heroes. It's really laughable. Plauge of the dead had a similar problem.
Second, and most distracting for me, were the fake news headlines every page or so that killed the flow of the action. They were pointless and useless, usually meant to seem funny. SO people on the east coast are just reading funny news online after California, Nevada, Colorado (Apparently AZ doesn't exist) and New Mexico are over run with the walking dead?
The names were distracting, as was the utter moronic stupidity all of the characters.
The book has a supernatural slant that I did not so much mind, but the amount of time spent "thinking" like a zombie essentially killed the intrinsic horror value of the undead...but it stayed dead.
I don't have much else good to say about this book, honestly, as it has been relegated to my bathroom pile to be finished after I read the new issue of wired.
A footnote: I have not read the first book nor do I plan to.
A zombie book worth your time? Day by Day Armedgeddon. or The Rising, WW Z, City Of The Dead, Plauge of the Dead, Dead Sea, Dying To Live
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