Nocturnal Book Reviews

This was one mind-blowing, brutal and absolutely glorious zombie book! Oh My God, people, you all have to read it. Please, I beg you...

Max Brooks did one genius thing, - he made this story a documentary, literally a series of interviews with the survivors of zombie war 20 years later. When you read these interviews you think of people who tell you of their experiences, their pain, horror, guilt of leaving someone behind or killing a loved one or fighting their way out through guts and gore as real live people. They have characters, they have spark, they just spring before your eyes.

The scope of these interviews is humongous, from so many parts of the world, different ages, races, backgrounds, from mercenaries to children... Some of the interviews were even cut in half, the second half we would suddenly find at the end of the book and the emotional impact would be so much greater.

I couldn't put World War Z down, I even had a couple of very intense zombie dreams and as there was so much to absorb I was reading this book very slowly. It was one of the best zombie stories I've ever read not because it was about zombies but because it was about the resilience of human spirit.

“They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.”

Two words, an EPIC READ. Recommended to the fans of Mira Grant. The film will come out next summer, and from what I can see they are going to absolutely ruin it. So... Go read the book!