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Zombie Armageddon: The Unwashed Dead & Walking with Zombies
Books One and Two of the #1 bestselling Zombie Armageddon series Fast-paced contemporary horror
BOOK ONE: THE UNWASHED DEAD
The few law-abiding citizens left alive in Breakspear Gardens have locked their doors and shut the curtains on this Friday night. They dare not venture out after the sun goes down. The druggies, drunks, and feral kids rule the streets in the roughest housing project in northern England - a place where anything can be had, at a low price - the neighborhood you never want to live in.
Tonight, the streets are strangely quiet. Headaches, nausea, and sickness are targeting criminals and residents alike. The untainted soon discover the horror of their plight, as their friends, families, and neighbors begin to die ... and are reborn as voracious, ravening beasts!
A small group of desperate survivors battle their way through hordes of blood-crazed zombies, trying to reach help just beyond the boundary of the estate, only to find soldiers at every exit, shooting anything that moves.
Can this dwindling group of terrified survivors avoid the newly-dead and win their way to freedom? They need to find a way out, and fast, before the authorities' weapons vaporize the area, transforming Breakspear into Hell on Earth!
Edited by Monique Lewis Happy - 04 December 2013
BOOK TWO: WALKING WITH ZOMBIES
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Stockholm Club.
Have we got a special treat for you tonight! We're privileged to have with us, a highly talented county and western singer, all the way from exotic Birmingham. I know that you'll give the lad a fantastic Yorkshire welcome.
Don't forget, the first drink is on the house.
Now before all you geriatric parasites slouch over to the bar and start making your way through my alcohol, I'd just also like to mention that there is a chance that some of my staff may turn into flesh eating zombies as the night wears on.
In fact, I think I can confidently predict that most of you will resemble jackal stripped zebra carcasses before the dawn sun makes an appearance.
So please enjoy tonight's live entertainment and drink like there's no tomorrow. Let's face it; you ain't going to be seeing it.
Praise for Walking with Zombies.
All in all, this is a solid story, tight, well-paced and cements Woodhead as one of the most exciting zombie novelists in the country - Sean T Page. Author of The Official Zombie Handbook (UK)
Squeamish people should steer clear. The characters are well developed and well written. Mr. Woodhead is able to bring characters that don't fit the usual zombie thriller stereotypes with a practiced ease - Robert DeCoteau. Author of The New Days: The First Son
The incredible attention Mr. Woodhead pays to expressing his character's internal thoughts and emotions is impressive - Sara Beverage. Owner of Zombiefiend.com
BOOK ONE: THE UNWASHED DEAD
The few law-abiding citizens left alive in Breakspear Gardens have locked their doors and shut the curtains on this Friday night. They dare not venture out after the sun goes down. The druggies, drunks, and feral kids rule the streets in the roughest housing project in northern England - a place where anything can be had, at a low price - the neighborhood you never want to live in.
Tonight, the streets are strangely quiet. Headaches, nausea, and sickness are targeting criminals and residents alike. The untainted soon discover the horror of their plight, as their friends, families, and neighbors begin to die ... and are reborn as voracious, ravening beasts!
A small group of desperate survivors battle their way through hordes of blood-crazed zombies, trying to reach help just beyond the boundary of the estate, only to find soldiers at every exit, shooting anything that moves.
Can this dwindling group of terrified survivors avoid the newly-dead and win their way to freedom? They need to find a way out, and fast, before the authorities' weapons vaporize the area, transforming Breakspear into Hell on Earth!
Edited by Monique Lewis Happy - 04 December 2013
BOOK TWO: WALKING WITH ZOMBIES
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Stockholm Club.
Have we got a special treat for you tonight! We're privileged to have with us, a highly talented county and western singer, all the way from exotic Birmingham. I know that you'll give the lad a fantastic Yorkshire welcome.
Don't forget, the first drink is on the house.
Now before all you geriatric parasites slouch over to the bar and start making your way through my alcohol, I'd just also like to mention that there is a chance that some of my staff may turn into flesh eating zombies as the night wears on.
In fact, I think I can confidently predict that most of you will resemble jackal stripped zebra carcasses before the dawn sun makes an appearance.
So please enjoy tonight's live entertainment and drink like there's no tomorrow. Let's face it; you ain't going to be seeing it.
Praise for Walking with Zombies.
All in all, this is a solid story, tight, well-paced and cements Woodhead as one of the most exciting zombie novelists in the country - Sean T Page. Author of The Official Zombie Handbook (UK)
Squeamish people should steer clear. The characters are well developed and well written. Mr. Woodhead is able to bring characters that don't fit the usual zombie thriller stereotypes with a practiced ease - Robert DeCoteau. Author of The New Days: The First Son
The incredible attention Mr. Woodhead pays to expressing his character's internal thoughts and emotions is impressive - Sara Beverage. Owner of Zombiefiend.com
- GenresZombies
283 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 8, 2014
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About the author
Ian Woodhead
127 books161 followersIan Woodhead is just past the age of forty. He lives in the north of England and is married to a wonderful woman. He has forgotten how many children he has. He had been writing for nearly twenty years but has only just gained the confidence to start showing his work. Ian finds it a little creepy writing about himself in the third person.
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April 19, 2014
I recently read a review that another reader wrote on the first book in the Zombie Armageddon series. I found the review to be rather abrasive and worded in such a way that it was borderline abusive toward the author. I do not review that way, and find it to be yucky practice. After all, we're reviewing a book, not the person that wrote it, and in our self-appointed position as a critic we should use our platform to inform reader while providing an unbiased opinion of a book.
That being said, if I get down to the bones of the other review, and take only the message, I could relate to some of their critique. There are some definite highs and lows in Zombie Armageddon, but I truly believe they boil down to not only personal preference, but regional culture. The books aren't written for an American audience and if you have issue with vulgarity, this may not be a good fit for you. I am not easily offended by language or reprehensible acts but was a little taken back myself from the first chapter. I think I counted the 'C' word 11 times in the first few minutes. Once I got past the language, I was able to enjoy the way the outbreak was told. And truth be told, the 'C' word is only in the beginning.
I'll start with what I enjoyed about Zombie Armageddon. Ian Woodhead gives readers a conspiratorial zombie story with multiple subplots. His characters are are unique in the sense that among the group, there are very few 'good' people. The good guys are the bad guys and the bad guys are even worse. The author dug deep to provide some really creative deaths, and I enjoy that. I read a lot, and I mean a lot of death scenes. So kudos to Ian for giving me some that I haven't seen in previous books. He even throws readers a doozy in the first chapter that most think about, but don't have the balls to write. (There's a pun there...if you've read it, you'll get it)
Where things didn't connect with me was the linear development in adult characterization. There was little progression in characters, and by that I mean they started out a bad egg, and ended as a bad egg. All the adults have the same traits; drunks and deadbeats. Now, this may be intentional due to the setting of the story taking place in a seedy area, but I would have like to see the diamond in the rough, some standout protagonist that didn't belong and brought some positive energy to the book. By chapter six, I was still unsure of who the main protagonist was, and given the changing POV's and use of an all new cast in book 2, I still don't have a clear picture.
Where I believe the writing style from across the pond differs in in wording and sentence structure. The author humanizes objects and it was a bit confusing. "The bastard door", "...his bastard neck", "I spent a bastard fortune". I counted, bastard was used 94 times, and it was dwarfed by the f word...which was used 313 times. To me, cursing is usually an indicator of some heighten emotion; fear, angry, excitement, etc... So to use it so frequently, and in normal conversation, lessens the impact of when it's absolutely needed to make a point.
The editing in book 1 far bettered that of book 2. I didn't have anything really jump out at me until The Walking Dead. I think the book could benefit from another set of eyes going over the text.
That being said, if I get down to the bones of the other review, and take only the message, I could relate to some of their critique. There are some definite highs and lows in Zombie Armageddon, but I truly believe they boil down to not only personal preference, but regional culture. The books aren't written for an American audience and if you have issue with vulgarity, this may not be a good fit for you. I am not easily offended by language or reprehensible acts but was a little taken back myself from the first chapter. I think I counted the 'C' word 11 times in the first few minutes. Once I got past the language, I was able to enjoy the way the outbreak was told. And truth be told, the 'C' word is only in the beginning.
I'll start with what I enjoyed about Zombie Armageddon. Ian Woodhead gives readers a conspiratorial zombie story with multiple subplots. His characters are are unique in the sense that among the group, there are very few 'good' people. The good guys are the bad guys and the bad guys are even worse. The author dug deep to provide some really creative deaths, and I enjoy that. I read a lot, and I mean a lot of death scenes. So kudos to Ian for giving me some that I haven't seen in previous books. He even throws readers a doozy in the first chapter that most think about, but don't have the balls to write. (There's a pun there...if you've read it, you'll get it)
Where things didn't connect with me was the linear development in adult characterization. There was little progression in characters, and by that I mean they started out a bad egg, and ended as a bad egg. All the adults have the same traits; drunks and deadbeats. Now, this may be intentional due to the setting of the story taking place in a seedy area, but I would have like to see the diamond in the rough, some standout protagonist that didn't belong and brought some positive energy to the book. By chapter six, I was still unsure of who the main protagonist was, and given the changing POV's and use of an all new cast in book 2, I still don't have a clear picture.
Where I believe the writing style from across the pond differs in in wording and sentence structure. The author humanizes objects and it was a bit confusing. "The bastard door", "...his bastard neck", "I spent a bastard fortune". I counted, bastard was used 94 times, and it was dwarfed by the f word...which was used 313 times. To me, cursing is usually an indicator of some heighten emotion; fear, angry, excitement, etc... So to use it so frequently, and in normal conversation, lessens the impact of when it's absolutely needed to make a point.
The editing in book 1 far bettered that of book 2. I didn't have anything really jump out at me until The Walking Dead. I think the book could benefit from another set of eyes going over the text.
September 8, 2014
As a self-proclaimed zombie aficionado, I really enjoyed these books. The story was well planned and progressed well. I liked the connection in place and time between the two stories. Ian Woodhead already has about six in the series, which should keep me busy.
I had some issues with the deep British vernacular, but I was able to improvise, adapt, and overcome. Zombie Armageddon: The Unwashed Dead & Walking with Zombies was a very enjoyable read, mostly for the detail and thought that Ian put into writing it. The zombies are a mix of slow and fast, with a pleasant twist. Zombie Armageddon 1: The Unwashed Dead provided no issues, but Zombie Armageddon 2: Walking with Zombies (at least the Kindle version that I have) was riddled with errors. These were the editing variety – misspelled words, grammar errors, comma and period usage, etc. The story was great, but the edition was very difficult to read. If I hadn’t liked the story so much, I would have put this one down for the errors.
I look forward to reading more Ian Woodhead.
I had some issues with the deep British vernacular, but I was able to improvise, adapt, and overcome. Zombie Armageddon: The Unwashed Dead & Walking with Zombies was a very enjoyable read, mostly for the detail and thought that Ian put into writing it. The zombies are a mix of slow and fast, with a pleasant twist. Zombie Armageddon 1: The Unwashed Dead provided no issues, but Zombie Armageddon 2: Walking with Zombies (at least the Kindle version that I have) was riddled with errors. These were the editing variety – misspelled words, grammar errors, comma and period usage, etc. The story was great, but the edition was very difficult to read. If I hadn’t liked the story so much, I would have put this one down for the errors.
I look forward to reading more Ian Woodhead.
April 29, 2014
The first two books in the Zombie Armageddon series by Ian Woodhead were a fun, fast paced read.
Book One The Unwashed Dead was fast paced and fun. While most of the characters are unlikable, a few stand out. This book took a page from George R.R. Martin, my favorite characters were dropping like flies. Good start to the series. 3.5 stars.
Book Two Walking With Zombies was fast paced and fun also. The characters were a little more sympathetic than in part one. Loved Dominic, a great character that bakes a mean pie! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. A solid 4 star read.
Book One The Unwashed Dead was fast paced and fun. While most of the characters are unlikable, a few stand out. This book took a page from George R.R. Martin, my favorite characters were dropping like flies. Good start to the series. 3.5 stars.
Book Two Walking With Zombies was fast paced and fun also. The characters were a little more sympathetic than in part one. Loved Dominic, a great character that bakes a mean pie! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. A solid 4 star read.
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