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Zombie Billionaire
Action, adventure, horror, comedy... Zombie Billionaire has it all.
The long-awaited sequel to Zombie Bigfoot is here!
You know those series books that say "This book is a standalone?" This one isn't. Zombie Billionaire picks up directly from where Zombie Bigfoot left off. If you haven't read "ZBF," do yourself a get it, read it, and come on back. We'll be right here waiting for you.
Cameron Carson was dead, to begin with...
In the forests of Idaho, a debonaire billionaire finds himself back from the dead... and the transition is far from seamless. Meanwhile, the tattered remnants of a Bigfoot troop try to make their way to safety while a survival show host, a Shoshone tracker, and a brilliant primatologist struggle to protect their Sasquatchian friends. On top of that, they have to track down the mysterious "Stone that Sings" that started this whole mess. But dark forces with less-than-benevolent intentions are gathering... some looking for the meteorite... others searching for the surviving Bigfoots.
And in Lake Payette, by the shores of the resort town of McCall, something ancient has awakened. And it is HUNGRY.
The long-awaited sequel to Zombie Bigfoot is here!
You know those series books that say "This book is a standalone?" This one isn't. Zombie Billionaire picks up directly from where Zombie Bigfoot left off. If you haven't read "ZBF," do yourself a get it, read it, and come on back. We'll be right here waiting for you.
Cameron Carson was dead, to begin with...
In the forests of Idaho, a debonaire billionaire finds himself back from the dead... and the transition is far from seamless. Meanwhile, the tattered remnants of a Bigfoot troop try to make their way to safety while a survival show host, a Shoshone tracker, and a brilliant primatologist struggle to protect their Sasquatchian friends. On top of that, they have to track down the mysterious "Stone that Sings" that started this whole mess. But dark forces with less-than-benevolent intentions are gathering... some looking for the meteorite... others searching for the surviving Bigfoots.
And in Lake Payette, by the shores of the resort town of McCall, something ancient has awakened. And it is HUNGRY.
392 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2025
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Nick Sullivan
208 books99 followersBorn in East Tennessee, Nick Sullivan has spent most of his adult life as an actor in New York City, working in theater, television, film, and audiobooks. After recording hundreds of books over the last twenty years he decided to write his own. Nick has been scuba diving for almost as long as he'd been acting, and his new series was inspired by his experiences in the Caribbean. "Deep Shadow" is set in the island of Bonaire and the second book, "Deep Cut", takes place on the Dutch island of Saba. "Deep Roots" takes place in the off-shore cayes of Belize, and "Deep Devil" is set in Cozumel. His first novel, "Zombie Bigfoot", hit #1 in Horror Comedy on Amazon.
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May 6, 2025
Zombie Bigfoot was a pleasant surprise for me, both by how well written it was and by how fun it was. I know it sounds stupid, and it kind of is, but it also had some surprising feels, depth, and lots of laughs along the way. Because Zombie Billionaire starts off at the moment Zombie Bigfoot ends, I re-listened to that one first, just to refresh my memory. You should do the same. This book is not a standalone and you will have no idea what's going on if you don't.
We still have our group of characters in the woods, with our billionaire douche dead in the body bag, and rescuers everywhere. But the billionaire's not dead, the survival show host is still there, as is the Shoshone tracker, and the scientists. The only ones that have taken off already are the sasquatch. What the scientists and the tracker know is that they have to find the "singing stone" that caused this mess before anything else goes wrong. In nearby Lake Payette, there's something else that isn't part of our little group. But it's awake, it's swimming and it's hungry. How will this all play out? You'll have to read or listen to find out!
While this book was fun and had lots of exciting, bloody threads to follow, and while there still was a good amount of humor, I just felt like too much was going on here. All of these smaller groups of people are off doing their own thing, the bigfoots are over here, there's a lake monster, (I got a kick out of her as she's named Sharley, and that's one of my nicknames), there's a billionaire scheming, trackers tracking and some idiot townspeople that serve as fodder for one creature or another along the way. I felt like the fast pacing and tight dialogue from the first book slowed down and got too loose. It felt like the story didn't know where to focus and I felt it suffered a bit for that.
Nick Sullivan is not only the writer here, but he's also the narrator. As far as his voicing is concerned, I have no complaints. He did a pretty good job with all the different voices and accents and was still able to pull off some laughs as well.
As far as the overall story is concerned though, I have to admit to being a bit disappointed. After the fun of the first book, I was hoping for another lean, mean, creature-feature and while I did get the creature feature part, (YAY), it wasn't quite as mean or lean. It was still fun, though, and I absolutely will continue with the next book, because I have to!
*Audio ARC from narrator
We still have our group of characters in the woods, with our billionaire douche dead in the body bag, and rescuers everywhere. But the billionaire's not dead, the survival show host is still there, as is the Shoshone tracker, and the scientists. The only ones that have taken off already are the sasquatch. What the scientists and the tracker know is that they have to find the "singing stone" that caused this mess before anything else goes wrong. In nearby Lake Payette, there's something else that isn't part of our little group. But it's awake, it's swimming and it's hungry. How will this all play out? You'll have to read or listen to find out!
While this book was fun and had lots of exciting, bloody threads to follow, and while there still was a good amount of humor, I just felt like too much was going on here. All of these smaller groups of people are off doing their own thing, the bigfoots are over here, there's a lake monster, (I got a kick out of her as she's named Sharley, and that's one of my nicknames), there's a billionaire scheming, trackers tracking and some idiot townspeople that serve as fodder for one creature or another along the way. I felt like the fast pacing and tight dialogue from the first book slowed down and got too loose. It felt like the story didn't know where to focus and I felt it suffered a bit for that.
Nick Sullivan is not only the writer here, but he's also the narrator. As far as his voicing is concerned, I have no complaints. He did a pretty good job with all the different voices and accents and was still able to pull off some laughs as well.
As far as the overall story is concerned though, I have to admit to being a bit disappointed. After the fun of the first book, I was hoping for another lean, mean, creature-feature and while I did get the creature feature part, (YAY), it wasn't quite as mean or lean. It was still fun, though, and I absolutely will continue with the next book, because I have to!
*Audio ARC from narrator
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April 11, 2025*Huge thanks to Nick for sending me a digital ARC of this one!*
Way back in 2018, Gavin from Kendall Reviews absolutely insisted I read ‘Zombie Bigfoot.’ I wasn’t too sure going in, as I’d fallen out of love with zombie fiction around that time, but ‘Zombie Bigfoot’ was such a great read and it was my introduction to Nick Sullivan. If you don’t know Nick – he’s a talented author, renowned narrator and an awesome guy. ‘Zombie Bigfoot’ finished with the door wide open for a sequel. We were excited! We couldn’t wait! And then we waited… and waited… and waited… And as Nick even says in the afterword or this one, book two was in the process of being written, but then he started his Caribbean Dive Adventures series, which have taken off, and his attention was pulled in a different direction.
But now, after an eight year delay, book two has arrived and I was so excited when he emailed me to see if I’d like to give it a read!
I will say – and Nick says this both in the description on Goodreads/Amazon etc. as well as at the start of this book – you ABSOLUTELY have to have read book one to read this one, so go grab that one first, but also beware of potential spoilers going forward!
What I liked: This one picks up directly after the events that concluded book one – SPOILERS HERE BUT NECESSARY – our billionaire Cameron Carson has been viscously killed by the infected bigfoot. Brighteyes and Littlefoot have fled, looking for a new bigfoot tribe to call their own, and our main characters are trying to get away from the gathering government forces descending on the area.
It’s from here where the story splits into three different subplots, with a few more arriving as well.
When it comes to Cameron, we see him regenerate from the dead, infected by the same meteorite virus that infected the large bigfoot. It’s a fun storyline, with his hideousness and horribleness on full display. We see him determined to use what’s happened to elevate himself further, but also he returns to the forests in search of the meteorite and the bigfoots.
In the case of Brighteyes and Littlefoot, we follow them as they flee from those trying to capture them. We get some backstory on Brighteyes and we meet a female bigfoot from his past who he has a connection with. Their storyline does bring them back to reconnect with the humans, which was wonderful and helped to close off the book as well.
When it comes to Joseph and Sarah and the crew, we see them work together to try and stop Carson and make sure the bigfoot escape. Their storyline also comes around to the next storyline aspect that was introduced.
As this is a Creature Quest book, Sullivan introduces Sharlie, a Loch Ness Monster type creature that lives in the local lake. With a celebration going on in town, Sharlie begins to rampage and eat those on the lake. This intertwines with a monster hunter who goes to the area to find the bigfoot, but ends up also learning about the sea creature. It made for a really fun additional element of cryptid adventure and I really enjoyed how the two storylines between the sasquatch and the sea creature ended up working together.
Throughout, this book reads and feels like a really great movie exploding off the pages and I loved returning to this world. The ending does give us a glimmer of hope for a third, but we’ll have to wait and see.
What I didn’t like: Honestly, as much fun as it was having the Sharlie storyline, I kind of wish that was a completely separate third book. Sullivan alludes to it in the afterword that it was a consideration at one point, and I think if it had been saved for a third book, we would’ve had more bigfoot action, as that seemed to be the element that was lessened because of that.
Why you should buy this: If you read book one, you’ll definitely want to return to this world, as Sullivan writes with such glee if it infectious. The characters are a ton of fun, the setting is spot on for the events and the masterful way Nick brings Brighteyes, Littlefoot and the other bigfoot to life is reminiscent of Harry and the Henderson’s. Overall, a fantastic follow up and one I think creature fans will definitely love!
Way back in 2018, Gavin from Kendall Reviews absolutely insisted I read ‘Zombie Bigfoot.’ I wasn’t too sure going in, as I’d fallen out of love with zombie fiction around that time, but ‘Zombie Bigfoot’ was such a great read and it was my introduction to Nick Sullivan. If you don’t know Nick – he’s a talented author, renowned narrator and an awesome guy. ‘Zombie Bigfoot’ finished with the door wide open for a sequel. We were excited! We couldn’t wait! And then we waited… and waited… and waited… And as Nick even says in the afterword or this one, book two was in the process of being written, but then he started his Caribbean Dive Adventures series, which have taken off, and his attention was pulled in a different direction.
But now, after an eight year delay, book two has arrived and I was so excited when he emailed me to see if I’d like to give it a read!
I will say – and Nick says this both in the description on Goodreads/Amazon etc. as well as at the start of this book – you ABSOLUTELY have to have read book one to read this one, so go grab that one first, but also beware of potential spoilers going forward!
What I liked: This one picks up directly after the events that concluded book one – SPOILERS HERE BUT NECESSARY – our billionaire Cameron Carson has been viscously killed by the infected bigfoot. Brighteyes and Littlefoot have fled, looking for a new bigfoot tribe to call their own, and our main characters are trying to get away from the gathering government forces descending on the area.
It’s from here where the story splits into three different subplots, with a few more arriving as well.
When it comes to Cameron, we see him regenerate from the dead, infected by the same meteorite virus that infected the large bigfoot. It’s a fun storyline, with his hideousness and horribleness on full display. We see him determined to use what’s happened to elevate himself further, but also he returns to the forests in search of the meteorite and the bigfoots.
In the case of Brighteyes and Littlefoot, we follow them as they flee from those trying to capture them. We get some backstory on Brighteyes and we meet a female bigfoot from his past who he has a connection with. Their storyline does bring them back to reconnect with the humans, which was wonderful and helped to close off the book as well.
When it comes to Joseph and Sarah and the crew, we see them work together to try and stop Carson and make sure the bigfoot escape. Their storyline also comes around to the next storyline aspect that was introduced.
As this is a Creature Quest book, Sullivan introduces Sharlie, a Loch Ness Monster type creature that lives in the local lake. With a celebration going on in town, Sharlie begins to rampage and eat those on the lake. This intertwines with a monster hunter who goes to the area to find the bigfoot, but ends up also learning about the sea creature. It made for a really fun additional element of cryptid adventure and I really enjoyed how the two storylines between the sasquatch and the sea creature ended up working together.
Throughout, this book reads and feels like a really great movie exploding off the pages and I loved returning to this world. The ending does give us a glimmer of hope for a third, but we’ll have to wait and see.
What I didn’t like: Honestly, as much fun as it was having the Sharlie storyline, I kind of wish that was a completely separate third book. Sullivan alludes to it in the afterword that it was a consideration at one point, and I think if it had been saved for a third book, we would’ve had more bigfoot action, as that seemed to be the element that was lessened because of that.
Why you should buy this: If you read book one, you’ll definitely want to return to this world, as Sullivan writes with such glee if it infectious. The characters are a ton of fun, the setting is spot on for the events and the masterful way Nick brings Brighteyes, Littlefoot and the other bigfoot to life is reminiscent of Harry and the Henderson’s. Overall, a fantastic follow up and one I think creature fans will definitely love!
April 30, 2025
Let me say up front that many of us waited eight long years for the sequel to “Zombie Bigfoot” to drop, and I can say that it was well worth the wait and time enjoying every morsel of it. “Zombie Billionaire”, the latest in the series, is just as entertainment as its predecessor, but this story contained more depth, fun, and adventure than the original; just what a sequel should provide. The story is loaded with horror, hijinks, and hysteria. If you are currently a fan of Nick Sullivan’s vast catalogue of adventure novels, you will find “Zombie Billionaire” just what you expected. If you have not listened to any of Mr. Sullivan’s works, shame on you as you are missing out on some of the best writing and narration Audible has to offer in the Adventure genre. I highly recommend you not jump straight into this second audiobook in the series if you have not yet listened to the first. Instead, hop on over to Audible and pick up the original “Zombie Bigfoot” and then give this one a listen. You will not be disappointed.
The story opens with a rather graphic visual description of the process of death, but this understanding is a critical aspect of the story going forward. Yet, as the tale progresses, you come to lean that there is plenty of depth, complexity, and action packed into the over twelve hours of audio. For the older folks, such as myself, you may remember a movie called “Harry and the Hendersons”. I compared this movie with its puns, pokes, and prods of humor to the first audiobook in this series. However, “Zombie Billionaire” is a bit darker and more graphic than its predecessor, but I like the direction the author went with in this audiobook. What seems rather silly and light-hearted when you read the title and begin listening, quickly migrates into a story that is much richer and deeper than you would have expected.
I found the back and forth between the humans and troop of bigfoot (feet?) enjoyable. In each of these segments we were able to better understand each other’s needs. Seeing the different ways they all communicated as a species and how all the individual paths would finally converge into the story’s climax requiring both man and monster to solve. Not only will you be fully entertained with the many Sasquatches in this tale, but Mr. Sullivan additionally brings in a new and more deadly, and hungry, legendary monster. There are plenty of horror tropes (on purpose) such as the bumbling military, crazy bigfoot trackers, and monsters who can evade the proliferation of cameras and smart phone videos. All of this really made the story a fun and entertaining listen. Having the aspect of horror while also playing out like a B-rated monster flick made me smile and laugh out loud many times while listening.
About the audiobook’s narration, Mr. Sullivan is one of the best-of-the-best when it comes to his professional and high-quality narrations. This audiobook is no exception. I have said in many of my audiobook reviews that I rarely find an author who is able to properly narrate their own work. However, Mr. Sullivan always delivers and has set the bar for others when it comes to his ability to being a text to life in audio format. I did not make note of any audio artifacts or issues while listening to “Zombie Billionaire” and Mr. Sullivan’s ability to create fun and unique characters with just as unique voices helped make this audiobook what it is.
For parents and younger listeners, this audiobook does contain some light profanity used as expletives, but this is very few and far between. Secondly, as with any zombie/horror genre, there are some portions of the story that contain gruesome aspects which may not be appropriate for younger listeners. I will also have to include a warning on the number of dad jokes contained within, note you have been warned.
In summary, if you are looking for a very entertaining audiobook with horror, humor and adventurous hijinks, look no farther than “Zombie Billionaire”. The author and narrator (one in the same) did a wonderful job of making the story feel deep and multifaceted while sticking to what made the first in the series well loved. Much like with the cult following of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, I think Mr. Sullivan has started his own cult following of listeners. We all just hope that it does not take eight more years to get the next in the sequel.
The story opens with a rather graphic visual description of the process of death, but this understanding is a critical aspect of the story going forward. Yet, as the tale progresses, you come to lean that there is plenty of depth, complexity, and action packed into the over twelve hours of audio. For the older folks, such as myself, you may remember a movie called “Harry and the Hendersons”. I compared this movie with its puns, pokes, and prods of humor to the first audiobook in this series. However, “Zombie Billionaire” is a bit darker and more graphic than its predecessor, but I like the direction the author went with in this audiobook. What seems rather silly and light-hearted when you read the title and begin listening, quickly migrates into a story that is much richer and deeper than you would have expected.
I found the back and forth between the humans and troop of bigfoot (feet?) enjoyable. In each of these segments we were able to better understand each other’s needs. Seeing the different ways they all communicated as a species and how all the individual paths would finally converge into the story’s climax requiring both man and monster to solve. Not only will you be fully entertained with the many Sasquatches in this tale, but Mr. Sullivan additionally brings in a new and more deadly, and hungry, legendary monster. There are plenty of horror tropes (on purpose) such as the bumbling military, crazy bigfoot trackers, and monsters who can evade the proliferation of cameras and smart phone videos. All of this really made the story a fun and entertaining listen. Having the aspect of horror while also playing out like a B-rated monster flick made me smile and laugh out loud many times while listening.
About the audiobook’s narration, Mr. Sullivan is one of the best-of-the-best when it comes to his professional and high-quality narrations. This audiobook is no exception. I have said in many of my audiobook reviews that I rarely find an author who is able to properly narrate their own work. However, Mr. Sullivan always delivers and has set the bar for others when it comes to his ability to being a text to life in audio format. I did not make note of any audio artifacts or issues while listening to “Zombie Billionaire” and Mr. Sullivan’s ability to create fun and unique characters with just as unique voices helped make this audiobook what it is.
For parents and younger listeners, this audiobook does contain some light profanity used as expletives, but this is very few and far between. Secondly, as with any zombie/horror genre, there are some portions of the story that contain gruesome aspects which may not be appropriate for younger listeners. I will also have to include a warning on the number of dad jokes contained within, note you have been warned.
In summary, if you are looking for a very entertaining audiobook with horror, humor and adventurous hijinks, look no farther than “Zombie Billionaire”. The author and narrator (one in the same) did a wonderful job of making the story feel deep and multifaceted while sticking to what made the first in the series well loved. Much like with the cult following of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, I think Mr. Sullivan has started his own cult following of listeners. We all just hope that it does not take eight more years to get the next in the sequel.
April 22, 2025
This review was originally published at FanFiAddict.
In Clerks II, film snob and general curmudgeon Randal mocks The Lord of the Rings trilogy as being nothing more than three boring-ass movies about a bunch of people walking. “Even the fucking trees walked in those movies,” he whines. Although Nick Sullivan’s Zombie Bigfoot sequel lacks walking trees, I thought about that scene more often than I should have for a book called Zombie Billionaire.
Zombie Billionaire picks up right where Zombie Bigfoot ended, and in order to discuss this sequel it is necessary that I talk about the end of the prior novel and the big reveals Sullivan packed into that book’s epilogue and epi-epilogue. There, Sullivan set the stage for a lake-based creature feature, with a primordial aquatic horror swallowing, and being changed by, the ancient meteor that transformed campers and Bigfoot alike into undead flesh eaters.
One of those undead monstrosities just so happened to be billionaire Cameron Carson, who was bitten and presumed dead in ZBFs climactic battle. Obviously, Zombie Billionaire finds him back on his feet and, eventually, in search of the mysterious meteor that has transformed him and a fresh water lake monster, known as Sharlie by the locals.
Zombie Bigfoot was a rousing, kinetic, action-packed indie horror that offered a lot of promise for a sequel and properly whet the appetite for a follow-up centering around more zombies and, more importantly, an ancient Nessie-like zombified lake monster. Zombie Billionaire doesn’t exactly squander all this potential, but it sure does take its time delivering the goods. Sullivan’s follow-up is far slower, and oftentimes maddeningly methodical as it re-establishes its various premises, introduces an unnecessarily large cast of new characters, and tries to find stories to tell for returning characters, not all of which are particularly engaging.
Of these returning characters are reality TV show host Russ Cloud, Dr. Sarah Bishop, and their Shoshone guide and tracker, Joseph. Their mission is to recover the meteorite that unleashed all this mayhem last time around before it can cause even more trouble, especially if the military now flooding the Idaho forests in the wake of a Bigfoot attack can get their hands on it first. Problem is, one of the National Guardsmen assigned to protect the campsite the meteorite was last seen at threw the rock off a cliff and into a river. They spend a lot of time trying to figure out which direction the water’s currents sent it and which of the branching rivers it may have taken.
Of course, we readers know exactly where the meteor has gone and what it has done, and it takes freaking forever for this slog of backstory to start connecting with the final moments from Zombie Bigfoot that we’ve been waiting for. And just when we’re about fed up with reading about tracking a rock through a forest, Sullivan switches us over to the remaining tribe of Bigfoot survivors as they… also spend a lot of time walking through the forest.
Cameron Carson, meanwhile, has returned to New York, in time to deal with some industrial espionage and a hostile takeover of his corporation by its board of directors, all while trying to come to grips with his newfound hunger.
There’s also a group of black-bag military operators, a competing reality TV show host and his entourage, a ragtag bunch of Sharlie hunters, a forestry officer finding unusual cast-offs from Sharlie’s newfound dining habits, and a killer who speaks solely by way of showtune titles, as if he’s some kind of ritzy Groot.
Frankly, Zombie Billionaire is overstuffed and oftentimes plodding. The humor is pretty cringey throughout, but I’ll admit to laughing at the Leroy Jenkins bit even if it’s pretty well dated at this point. It lacks the urgency and gory chaos of the previous installment, and by the time the action really kicks into gear with Sharlie and its accompanying lakeside mayhem, it’s too little too late. In between traipsing through the woods and New York boardroom scheming, we get some legit monster action, but never enough. When one character discovers the unusual events unfolding in McCall via a web forum posting and connects the dots about where they must go immediately, almost two-thirds into the book, I found myself wishing that’s where this story had started. I wanted more time on the lake with monster hunters and less time in the woods with rock hunters.
In Clerks II, film snob and general curmudgeon Randal mocks The Lord of the Rings trilogy as being nothing more than three boring-ass movies about a bunch of people walking. “Even the fucking trees walked in those movies,” he whines. Although Nick Sullivan’s Zombie Bigfoot sequel lacks walking trees, I thought about that scene more often than I should have for a book called Zombie Billionaire.
Zombie Billionaire picks up right where Zombie Bigfoot ended, and in order to discuss this sequel it is necessary that I talk about the end of the prior novel and the big reveals Sullivan packed into that book’s epilogue and epi-epilogue. There, Sullivan set the stage for a lake-based creature feature, with a primordial aquatic horror swallowing, and being changed by, the ancient meteor that transformed campers and Bigfoot alike into undead flesh eaters.
One of those undead monstrosities just so happened to be billionaire Cameron Carson, who was bitten and presumed dead in ZBFs climactic battle. Obviously, Zombie Billionaire finds him back on his feet and, eventually, in search of the mysterious meteor that has transformed him and a fresh water lake monster, known as Sharlie by the locals.
Zombie Bigfoot was a rousing, kinetic, action-packed indie horror that offered a lot of promise for a sequel and properly whet the appetite for a follow-up centering around more zombies and, more importantly, an ancient Nessie-like zombified lake monster. Zombie Billionaire doesn’t exactly squander all this potential, but it sure does take its time delivering the goods. Sullivan’s follow-up is far slower, and oftentimes maddeningly methodical as it re-establishes its various premises, introduces an unnecessarily large cast of new characters, and tries to find stories to tell for returning characters, not all of which are particularly engaging.
Of these returning characters are reality TV show host Russ Cloud, Dr. Sarah Bishop, and their Shoshone guide and tracker, Joseph. Their mission is to recover the meteorite that unleashed all this mayhem last time around before it can cause even more trouble, especially if the military now flooding the Idaho forests in the wake of a Bigfoot attack can get their hands on it first. Problem is, one of the National Guardsmen assigned to protect the campsite the meteorite was last seen at threw the rock off a cliff and into a river. They spend a lot of time trying to figure out which direction the water’s currents sent it and which of the branching rivers it may have taken.
Of course, we readers know exactly where the meteor has gone and what it has done, and it takes freaking forever for this slog of backstory to start connecting with the final moments from Zombie Bigfoot that we’ve been waiting for. And just when we’re about fed up with reading about tracking a rock through a forest, Sullivan switches us over to the remaining tribe of Bigfoot survivors as they… also spend a lot of time walking through the forest.
Cameron Carson, meanwhile, has returned to New York, in time to deal with some industrial espionage and a hostile takeover of his corporation by its board of directors, all while trying to come to grips with his newfound hunger.
There’s also a group of black-bag military operators, a competing reality TV show host and his entourage, a ragtag bunch of Sharlie hunters, a forestry officer finding unusual cast-offs from Sharlie’s newfound dining habits, and a killer who speaks solely by way of showtune titles, as if he’s some kind of ritzy Groot.
Frankly, Zombie Billionaire is overstuffed and oftentimes plodding. The humor is pretty cringey throughout, but I’ll admit to laughing at the Leroy Jenkins bit even if it’s pretty well dated at this point. It lacks the urgency and gory chaos of the previous installment, and by the time the action really kicks into gear with Sharlie and its accompanying lakeside mayhem, it’s too little too late. In between traipsing through the woods and New York boardroom scheming, we get some legit monster action, but never enough. When one character discovers the unusual events unfolding in McCall via a web forum posting and connects the dots about where they must go immediately, almost two-thirds into the book, I found myself wishing that’s where this story had started. I wanted more time on the lake with monster hunters and less time in the woods with rock hunters.
April 11, 2025
Zombie Billionaire is a well written sequel to the first book in Nick's Creature Quest series. The subject might be a little intense for some readers, but if you enjoy fiction about zombies and legendary creatures this one is for you. I enjoyed it very much. You do need to read the first book in this series first to fully appreciate this one.
August 6, 2025
I just finished Zombie Bigfoot while I was on vacation in the secluded woods at a lake. I thought it would be ridiculous, and it was, but it was also full of action and fun. Of course when I saw there was a second book, I had to dive right in. It was very entertaining. I like having the viewpoints of the 'monsters' too.
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