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HE’S ALWAYS SEEN GHOSTS... BUT THEY’VE NEVER OFFERED HIM A JOB BEFORE.
David Larkin can see ghosts. It’s a blessing – or a curse – that’s been part of his life since his eleventh birthday. It’s not much use to him, and he mostly just tries to ignore them and get on with life, travelling around and keeping to out of the way places where not too many people have died.
Until the ghost of Melissa appears to him, in a forgettable truck-stop diner on a highway in the American Midwest, warning him about the flood of zombies heading his way. Melissa offers him a deal: she’ll help David escape the zombie horde – in exchange for finding her zombified body and destroying it...
David Larkin can see ghosts. It’s a blessing – or a curse – that’s been part of his life since his eleventh birthday. It’s not much use to him, and he mostly just tries to ignore them and get on with life, travelling around and keeping to out of the way places where not too many people have died.
Until the ghost of Melissa appears to him, in a forgettable truck-stop diner on a highway in the American Midwest, warning him about the flood of zombies heading his way. Melissa offers him a deal: she’ll help David escape the zombie horde – in exchange for finding her zombified body and destroying it...
100 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 30, 2014
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July 28, 2024
I saw this book appear on my Libby app a few times, and I decided it was a short book with zombies. Why the heck not?
Arrghh, imagine having the ability of psychic and then encountering a zombie apocalypse. You're going to see a rapid increase in ghosts popping all over the place.
The story pacing is very encouraging, it started very quickly, and the author is able to introduce our main protagonist's (MMC) past and present experiences as the story moves forward. I loved that we have a quick snippet of the protagonist's past and then get snapped back to the present timeline. This happens intermittently until the past stories catches up to the present timeline. This is a short book with fast-paced storytelling, so you know the story is going to end in either a happy or dramatic conclusion.
I like David, and I adore his story-telling about his own life. He has a sarcastic sense of humor when talking about himself and his "unfortunate" discovery of psychic. I found myself laughing out loud a few times. I felt like David is that type of person where you don't know if he is lucky or not, sometimes it balances out, and sometimes it feels like a burden.
David did what he knew worked best with his unwelcome ability, he eschews almost everything that could lead him to encounter ghosts. He somehow perfected that method, and it became his lifestyle (sort of), but like I said before, either David is jinxed or not, he travels all the way to the USA and lands in a ZA. But he also meets Melissa, the ghost, who gives him an advance warning about it. He is quite an average person who I felt like didn't get the opportunity to shine because his ability has hindered his development stage.
I don't know why David would risk his life to help Melissa. Honey, you're already dead but you're so adamant about it that you would risk a living person just so he can kill your zombified body stuck deep in the secret lab or faculty. Feel like an unnecessary risk to a pointless pursuit.
Sure, I understand that David needs to get away safely and having a ghost look out for your life makes it easier. But, if the ghost is leading you straight to the core of the outbreak and also have suspicious amount of advanced knowledge about security and lab experiments? Maybe don't be so willing to trust her.
Did I "see" the ending coming? Yes and No! But, I appreciated the last chapter though, because it gave some type of to readers LOL
I enjoyed this book because the storytelling was chucklesome and the book was fast-paced. But I still felt like the zombies outshined ghost ratio in this book. I thought David was going to get swarms of zombies and their ghosts, but so far we only have one consistent ghost, Melissa. If David encounters more ghosts along the way and has hilarious encounters, the book would have continuous sarcastic humor presented throughout because this book is definitely action-oriented storytelling as well and some part kind of book got a little "dull".
Arrghh, imagine having the ability of psychic and then encountering a zombie apocalypse. You're going to see a rapid increase in ghosts popping all over the place.
The story pacing is very encouraging, it started very quickly, and the author is able to introduce our main protagonist's (MMC) past and present experiences as the story moves forward. I loved that we have a quick snippet of the protagonist's past and then get snapped back to the present timeline. This happens intermittently until the past stories catches up to the present timeline. This is a short book with fast-paced storytelling, so you know the story is going to end in either a happy or dramatic conclusion.
I like David, and I adore his story-telling about his own life. He has a sarcastic sense of humor when talking about himself and his "unfortunate" discovery of psychic. I found myself laughing out loud a few times. I felt like David is that type of person where you don't know if he is lucky or not, sometimes it balances out, and sometimes it feels like a burden.
David did what he knew worked best with his unwelcome ability, he eschews almost everything that could lead him to encounter ghosts. He somehow perfected that method, and it became his lifestyle (sort of), but like I said before, either David is jinxed or not, he travels all the way to the USA and lands in a ZA. But he also meets Melissa, the ghost, who gives him an advance warning about it. He is quite an average person who I felt like didn't get the opportunity to shine because his ability has hindered his development stage.
I don't know why David would risk his life to help Melissa. Honey, you're already dead but you're so adamant about it that you would risk a living person just so he can kill your zombified body stuck deep in the secret lab or faculty. Feel like an unnecessary risk to a pointless pursuit.
Sure, I understand that David needs to get away safely and having a ghost look out for your life makes it easier. But, if the ghost is leading you straight to the core of the outbreak and also have suspicious amount of advanced knowledge about security and lab experiments? Maybe don't be so willing to trust her.
Did I "see" the ending coming? Yes and No! But, I appreciated the last chapter though, because it gave some type of to readers LOL
I enjoyed this book because the storytelling was chucklesome and the book was fast-paced. But I still felt like the zombies outshined ghost ratio in this book. I thought David was going to get swarms of zombies and their ghosts, but so far we only have one consistent ghost, Melissa. If David encounters more ghosts along the way and has hilarious encounters, the book would have continuous sarcastic humor presented throughout because this book is definitely action-oriented storytelling as well and some part kind of book got a little "dull".
January 2, 2021
I enjoyed this - it’s a novella rather than a novel (82 pages of content), but that feels like the right length for this story and it moves at a brisk pace.
It’s published under “Tomes of the Dead”, but that’s more of an imprint than a series: there’s no shared continuity so you can read this story in isolation.
There were some twists that I saw coming, but there are also a couple of interesting ideas that were new to me.
It’s published under “Tomes of the Dead”, but that’s more of an imprint than a series: there’s no shared continuity so you can read this story in isolation.
There were some twists that I saw coming, but there are also a couple of interesting ideas that were new to me.
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