Tout commence par un seul mort qui revient à la vie.
En quelques jours, toute la ville est envahie.
Malgré tous les efforts de la police et de l’armée, l’infection se propage comme la peste.
Quand les morts atteignent les frontières du pays, le destin du monde entier ne tient plus qu’à un fil…
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Dépeignant l’apocalypse zombie dans sa lente montée vers une catastrophe planétaire, Cadavre vous entraîne dans un tourbillon aussi haletant que terrifiant à travers la fin du monde.
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This is another great addition to this Zonbie series. The subtle hints for the great reveal, the cliffhanger at the end all lead me to rush to the next addition. I love Nick Clausen's writing style.
I hope Ragnar turns out to be immune just so he can kill that bastard. This one was a little all over the place, but I loved how the connections to certain characters became clearer as I read. This author makes an art of having many characters be connected in some way or another. It is fun puzzling out until it is revealed.
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This whole series is really good🤩 I’m really enjoying it! I devoured book 1-5 in four days 🤭 don’t get attached to any of the characters. Also trigger warning - there’s accidental and not so accidental cannibalism.
“‘I will end it on my terms. I will bring this old chair, along with the rope from the basement, and I will visit the old cabin out in the woods one last time. To whomever finds this notebook, that’s where you’ll find me’”…”
It's now been days into the Torik Virus and many innocent people are falling to the slighter of the undead. Askel and Belinda both find themselves trapped in a military cargo vehicle sat amongst the undead, trapped by KJell who has a violent plan of vengeance to achieve. Simply pawns, Bigga is also picked up and finds herself part of the nightmare for revenge, but her outcome wouldn't be as clean as the other two. Fooling KJell, Belinda manages to escape undetected by running into the woods and back towards Anne and Rosa parked a few miles away. Askel gets the horrifying task of unstrapping the zombies and between himself and Bigga, they are to lead them to Ragnar's cave. Trying to stay ahead, they lead dozens of zombies over a frozen lake and up a mountain, where they encounter Kriss. Bigga unknowingly triggers a log boobytrap, leaving her shin shattered and as the others try and help he along, KJell orders them to simply leave her behind. Calling his bluff, he shoots her in her good leg, leaving the others no choice to leave her behind if they too didn't want to die. Out of the woodwork, Guardian (Bigga's dog and the one Askel snatched off the road), comes to his master's aid, but it'll be too late as she's already bitten and infected. Storming into Ragnar's cave, KJell would use gasoline to burn the barricade entrance down and allow the zombies to freely enter. Askel and Kriss and Guardian ma age to escape unharmed, but Jan would die from a neck wound and Ragnar to the infection from bites.
I guess I should tell him. Make him understand this isn’t a sickness, but that she’s really—
Ella is finally starting to understand she's was blessed with an immunity to the infection, after watching Hugo's succumb to the virus after this viscous attack. Sent to his closest friend Juma, Ella knows he's her best chance to making a possible stand against the undead. Tormented by the loss of his Aunt Zuri, he's trying to find what caused the Torik Virus, but every sample isn't reacting how they should. Kriss believes the paranormal monster, a drug was responsible for laying a curse onto humanity. When the Peterson's dug up it's ancient tomb, they released something not human into the world.
Book 5 was mainly about Kjell getting revenge on Ragnar, so needless to say, I did not like this one very much. 😂 The series has moved further into the human vs. human drama that I specifically don't enjoy in zombie books.
Ella continues to be my favorite part of the story. Hagos tells her that he never believed she was in much danger because he noticed the zombies weren't really interested in her. He sends her to his friend Juma, who may be able to figure out what makes her different and why she's immune. Unfortunately, Hagos dies before she leaves, which genuinely made me both mad and sad. Ella eventually finds Juma, beginning what looks like an important partnership between them.
Anne FINALLY learns Ella is alive after hearing the voicemail Ella left her. She's been following the truck carrying Aksel and Belinda, trying to rescue them. Belinda eventually manages to escape and reunite with Anne, while Anne goes back to help Aksel.
Meanwhile, Kjell has Aksel and Belinda trapped in a truck with around thirty zombies that he plans to use against Ragnar. Along the way he picks up an older woman named Bigga and eventually forces her and Aksel to lead the zombies toward Ragnar's cave.
Kristoffer has also discovered something horrifying: Ragnar has secretly been feeding them Ingrid's body. 🤢 He decides he's getting the hell out of there and ends up crossing paths with Aksel and Kjell's zombie army. Bigga is badly injured by one of Ragnar's booby traps, and Kjell shoots her other leg to force Aksel and Kristoffer to abandon her.
Aksel and Kristoffer make it inside Ragnar's cave, where Kjell burns through the entrance and unleashes the zombies. They manage to fight their way out and escape together. Kjell lets them go because his real target has always been Ragnar.
When Kjell finally enters the cave, he finds Ragnar alive but infected.
We also finally get more information about how this whole thing may have started through what Kristoffer learned from Halgrim's journal, suggesting the creature and ancient tomb from the beginning of the series may be much more important than we've seen lately.
Overall, this one just wasn't for me. Kjell's revenge plot took up way too much of the story, and I'm ready to get back to the actual zombie outbreak, Ella's immunity, and figuring out what the hell caused all of this in the first place.
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A falta de solo dos tomos para terminar la historia, la cosa no afloja. El ritmo sigue siendo endiablado y el libro no te da ni un solo segundo de descanso, aunque hay que admitir que a estas alturas el factor sorpresa y la tensión ya no impresionan como al principio.
Lo curioso y a la vez poco creíble de Aksel es que el tío sigue aguantando el tipo como una roca, hasta el punto de que que cuenta con algo de ayuda sobrenatural para sobrevivir a semejante paliza. No me convence el desarrollo de este personaje.
Lo que sí le da un soplo de aire fresco a la trama es la llegada de un nuevo compañero, aunque su comportamiento no me ha parecido del todo realista, se le perdona porque ayuda a romper la monotonía de las situaciones.
Por lo demás, me comienza a enfadar la jugada del autor. Esto no es una saga de siete libros, es un único tocho troceado en siete entregas. No hay un final de libro como tal ni un inicio claro en el siguiente, simplemente pasas de capítulo a capítulo cambiando de tomo y solo por eso le voy a robar una estrella. Viendo la trampa, desde luego nunca le compraría una obra por volúmenes individuales a precio estándar, solo en packs u ofertas tiradas como esta. Eso sí, las cosas como son... la historia engancha de cojones, y si vuelvo a pillar otro chollo similar de este escritor, me tiraré a por él sin dudarlo.
Reading each book of the Cadaver series is much like watching a building being built. You can’t tell what it will be from the foundation – and even when the frame is raised you can still mistake its ultimate state. After the first two books I felt like I had a good handle on where the overall story was going, of course book three served to show me the error of my presumption, book four furthered the correction to my presumptions. Book five brings in several possibilities for the remainder of the series. On specific thing I have to say about book five is regarding Axel’s part in this book. Over the first four books Axel plays a significant part, but in book five he seems to fully commit to jumping out of the proverbial frying pan into the fire multiple times with varying degrees of success. Of the five books I’ve listened to so far, book five has been my favorite not just because of the action and situation, but there are revelations about each character that made me think of them more as multidimensional friends rather than well-developed characters in a story. Once again Spencer Dillehay brings everyone to life in a manner that illustrates his significant narration skills.
I was skeptical at first as this genre of reading is not my cup of tea. With that being said I was pleasantly surprised with this series of books, so much so that I've read all of the published books in the series in a week, actually mostly this last three days. Aside from a few typos and misspellings, I was intrigued with the series. My one and only complaint being how short each book in the series is. I would prefer them combined to make a longer book, even if it lessened the number of books in the series. I can be a fast reader if the story is good and I blew through each book like air from a balloon. Regardless of my opinion on that, this series is solid. Graphic enough to entertain adults and reserved enough that a younger audience can enjoy it as well. Definitely worth the read if zombies are your genre of reading!!
This series is absolutely relentless. I powered through this book so quickly that I got to the end and couldn't believe I'd finished the book but left perfectly set up for the next installment.
Aside from the action, zombie and, let's just say it, psycho-nutbags, this book also brings character threads closer together and clearly starts setting the scene and parameters for a 'final showdown'.
There were a couple of language issues in this book (or what that book 4 - I read them so close together). However, these were extremely minor and I must admit the editing was top notch (and much better than some native English speakers). I only mention it because of a reference to a 'nursery home'. I only hope when I'm old and doddery that, if I need care, they put me in a nursery home rather than a nursing home (sigh).
Honestamente, este ha sido el mejor libro de la saga. Todos han sido entretenidos, pero hasta este creo que no habíamos tenido algo tan bien construido. Por fin el autor recordó que esto inicio por el lado de la mitología, y nos habló de lo que Kristoffer encontró en el diario de Halgrim! Además los caminos de Kristoffer y Aksel por fin se cruzaron (aleluya), por lo que pudimos ver un par de capítulos de su interacción.
Lastima que para tener esto tuvimos que dar en sacrificio fue Hagos, que en paz descanse. Ojalá la siguiente sea Marit 🙏
Aunque la mayor parte del tiempo lo que leímos fue el conflicto de Ragnar vs Kjell, y todos los que fueron arrastrados a ello... La trama avanzo lo que no había avanzado en los últimos 2 libros. Que oye, que me queje no significa que no sean interesantes, solo señalo que estábamos un poco estancados 😅
Lo único malo que le veo a esta saga, es que los libros se acaban muy rápido. ¿Como es posible que ya esté es el quinto? 😭😭😭
Yo pensaba que con la trilogía "Una educación mortal" me había viciado mal, pero es que con esta saga estoy peor que una cocainomana JAJAJA. Cuando no estoy leyendo estoy todo el día pensando en los personajes, en que les pasará, teorizando sobre el rumbo de la historia e impaciente por volver a retomar la lectura asi sea por 5 minutos de nada. Y para mí sorpresa, he de decir que creo que POR AHORITA este ha sido mi libro favorito de todos. No sabría explicar exactamente porqué, pero así es, si pudiera darme más de cinco ⭐ lo haría con gusto.
Apenas tenga algo de dinero ahorrado, voy a comprarme toda la saga en físico, LA NECESITO, necesito poder leer, hacer anotaciones y cositas a esta vaina infinitamente.
Todo este drama y no veo bien como van a terminar este problema en dos libros, al menos Kris ya descifró cómo empezó, será ella la solución? Veamos.
Kjell ha sido un solo desde que apareció que estrés que siga vivo y coleando pero menos mal que dejó ir a Askel. Dios ese chamo si sobrevive bien, espero me dure toda la historia.
Viví un desespero la escena de la cueva y el humo no tanto por Askel porque es buen superviviente si no por Guardián, ahora cada que sucede algo temo por él.
Gracias a Dios Anna por fin se enteró que ella sigue viva eso me tenía estresada también, espero se encuentre con ella, pero antes debe encontrarse con Askel y Kris, supongo que todo dependerá de ella y Kris.
Yo con el corazón en la mano leyendo este libro, porque vaya que aventura! Este me ha sacado lágrimas, me ha emocionado y la tensión me ha tenido al borde de la silla, no podía dejar de leer hasta saber cuál iba a ser su desenlace y si que fue bueno!.
Aksel es de esos personajes que uno observa en las películas de acción, y los antagonistas, vaya psicopatas, están bien construidos en mi opinión, desde el primer libro se sentía lo “pragmático” que eran, pero verlos enfrentarse fue otro nivel!
También quedé muy conmovido con la historia de Bigga y sobretodo necesito saber qué pasará con Ella, Annie, Rosa y Belinda.
Si así fue este tomo, no imagino lo buenos que serán los siguientes.
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This book does what it says on the tin. It's a zombie book written by a great author. Every once in a while you'll get a petty little Norwegian side-swipe at American culture (I feel sorry for him, really) that sort of takes you out of the action and reveals a little too much of the author for my taste.
Still, these are genuinely good books with a genuinely interesting premise.
Clausen delivers. Good characters. Lots of death and gore. Dead darlings all over the place. Hey, it's a zombie book - what more can I say? I will keep coming back to this well until I'm an old man. I just LOVE the genre.
Audiobook: Book 5 was as electrifying as the first four books in the series. I spent another evening glued to the audiobook as I had to know what would happen next. There were some surprises, and there were some rollercoaster moments filled with emotional and situational upheavals. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. Spencer Dillehay's narration was engrossing, and his performance enhanced the story's entertainment. I was given a free copy of the audiobook, and I have voluntarily posted this review.
This was so good. I was looking for Book 6 but it's not out yet. A lot was going on and I just gotta say I was expecting more from Ragnuk or whatever his name is. He acted like he had it all together. I'm loving the story but the books sure be short. Luckily I'm still reading Monsters at Midnight in between books. It has good short stories written by this author. I'm taking my time with them so I'll have something to read while I'm waiting.
I love this series and read the available books during a storm shut down. I couldn't stop! The author has made the story exciting, and the characters are very relatable. Normal people trying to survive during a zombie apocalypse. No spoilers just grab the first book and get started. I cannot wait for the next volume and was a bit bummed I had to leave this fictional world.
These books just aren’t long enough!!! Even at number five and they still haven’t run out of steam! I love this series can’t wait for number six Nick!!!
Love this series. Fast paced roller coaster ride. Lots of ups and downs and a few unexpected surprises. Looking forward to the next book. Really recommend reading this series.
Excellent continuation of the series. I love the character development and the unique take on the zombie apocalypse genre. I listened to the audible version, and the narrator, Spencer Dillehay, is great!
I’m still impressed with this author’s writing style and ability to tell a story across many different characters and stories. Keeping everything consistent and suspenseful throughout a series is hard, but the author has managed to do this! I’m eager to see how this story will wrap up.
I just love this author! I am a fan of all things horror, however, Nick really fleshes out his charaters, you really care about them and want to know what's going to happen to them. I highly recommend this series and Blind Fury!
Each book I read I love more and more. Some of the best characters in any series I’ve ever read. I can’t wait to see how the story continues to unfold and secretly never want it to end.
One of the best zombie series I've ever read. Anxiously waiting for book 6. This one should be made into a movie. Great side stories all tied together.