Nearly 20 years after the zombie apocalypse, the world is now populated by the living, the dead and the dead bored - like Cardiff born teenager, Geraint Wyn Thomas.
Geraint and his best friends, Bethan and Neil, are fed up with their video games, the television and even each other.
Can a zombie hunting trip to West Wales pull the teenagers out of their funk or will the whole adventure be as rotten as the creatures they're about to meet?
Gez and his friends are survivors of the apocalypse. Though the world is different now, they are used to living with the undead.
They love to go down to the local cemetery and take pock-shots at any zombies stumbling around.
One day, Gez’s Uncle Billy has a great idea. How about going out to the woods to find some zombies to kill? Gez and his friends think that this is a wonderful idea.
Gary Slaymaker (rockin’ zombie author name, by the way) has brought a new twist to what I have been experiencing with the Year of the Zombie. Comedy.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the dark, dismal, all hope is lost take on the end of the world, but sometimes you just want to have a little fun and escape in your book for an hour or two and have a few chuckles. Geraint Wyn does exactly that.
Gary Slaymaker tells the tale of three teens living in a world filled with zombies. Life is going on pretty much unchanged, the zombies showed up and people adapted. It’s not completely unreasonable, we are smarter and faster than them, just a simple matter of getting them first.
There is an interesting cast of characters who hold the story together, some of them perfectly designed to highlight the comedic elements of the story.
Geraint Wyn: Zombie Killer is high on fun and a bit light on the graphic violence, but that suits the subgenre.
This is a marvelous compliment to the Year of the Zombie; it’s like some mint jelly to go along with the prized lamb.
The year of the Zombie carries on with Gary Slaymakers offering to the alter and what a refreshing one it is. Just when you thought the Zombie depths had been explored along comes a great little twist on this well trudged genre.
Geraint Wyn is a bored teenager, even the Zombie Apocalypse bores him and his friends. So a nice trip to the countryside is called on for a tad of hunting. Nothing could possibly go wrong.....never underestimate the evil that is humankind.
Five books down and Seven to go what a great years this is shaping up to be.