Megatron discovers further powers of Dark Energon and raises an army of undead robots! It's night of the living Terrorcons as Optimus Prime and the Autobots fend off these zombie Transformers.
Let me start by saying that my nephew and I love the Transformers Prime TV series. It's flashy, smart, action-packed, full of great characters, and it's entertaining. This book didn't really do the TV show justice, and I actually found the busy pages with framed pictures a bit distracting, but who cares? It was still a bang-up story full of good vocabulary and purposeful dialogue.
As I read this to my nephew, he sat completely entranced, with his mouth hanging open and his eyes glued to the book. It had lasers and long-blades, Dark Energon and zombie robots. It had plenty of Optimus Prime and plenty of Megatron. No young self-respecting lover of action stories could fail to enjoy Autobots versus Zombies, and the boy definitely enjoyed it.
I think the Ozman was expecting something else when he selected this book called "Autobots Versus Zombies." He doesn't know anything about transformers, so he was quite bored. I too was bored. I don't know what Dark Energon is. This one is a solid MEH.
Giving this book a generous 2 stars because at least a kid is reading it. The reader would need to have background knowledge of the Transformers in order for this book to make sense. If you get a child to read anything else then do so.
From here a teacher might be able to get a child to read a good zombie or robot book. If you wanted to use it for teaching, which I honestly can't recommend, you could use it to teach using all your resources to solve a problem and not give up.