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Zombie Apocalypse #6
Horde
Finding plague victims inside their camp, survivors of the zombie apocalypse suspect that the zombie plague has mutated and is being spread by spores emitted by infected flesh-eating ghouls. People infected by the spores could be asymptomatic carriers. Not only do the survivors have to worry about being bitten by rampaging flesh-eating ghouls but also about being infected by inhaling spores emitted by a carrier within their camp.
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First published January 2, 2021
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Bryan Cassiday
63 books213 followersAward-winning author Bryan Cassiday writes thrillers and horror fiction. His novel Horde (Zombie Apocalypse: The Chad Halverson Series Book 6) won the 2022 Independent Press Award and the 2021 American Fiction Award for Best Horror novel. His novel Electric Green Mambas was a Finalist in the Reader Views Award for Thrillers 2021-22. His short story "Boxed" was published in the anthology Shadows and Teeth Volume Two, which won both the 2017 International Book Award for best adult horror fiction anthology and the Florida Association of Publishers and Authors President's Award gold medal for best adult horror fiction anthology 2017.
"A bracing page-turner with an unconventional hero."--Kirkus Reviews on Bryan's thriller Murder LLC
His thrillers include the psychological thriller The Payout and the Ethan Carr thriller Force of Impact, which Kirkus Reviews called "A fast-paced detective novel enhanced by exceptional characters and a striking ending."
Praise for Bryan Cassiday's Thriller Bolt
“From the very start, Bryan Cassiday spins what appears to be a typical Southern Californian private investigation novel in Bolt, but quickly takes off in a direction that speaks to our current troubled times. Well-plotted and crisply written, with great characterization, this is one to look for.”--Brendan DuBois, coauthor with James Patterson of The Cornwalls Are Gone.
"Noir suspense at its best! Private eyes, hit men, globe-trotting, and characters you don't know whether you can trust or not. Fans of James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, and Fredrick Forsyth will love Bolt!"--Matthew Farrell, best-selling author of What Have You Done
Praise for Bryan Cassiday's Zombie Books
"The plot engages from the beginning and holds the reader's interest until the last page."--The Booklife Prize on Horde
"Cassiday blends thoughtful suspense and pulse-pounding terror to deliver a novel with both bite and creeping dread."--David Dunwoody, author of Empire and The Harvest Cycle
"Written with the epic scope of World War Z and infused with the gritty spook works derring-do of a Robert Ludlum spy thriller, Sanctuary in Steel is full of zombie mayhem through and through."--Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Inheritance
"Sanctuary in Steel made me feel like I did the first time I watched Romero. Fresh, exciting and engaging like any outbreak story should be."--Iain McKinnon, author of Domain of the Dead
"A bracing page-turner with an unconventional hero."--Kirkus Reviews on Bryan's thriller Murder LLC
His thrillers include the psychological thriller The Payout and the Ethan Carr thriller Force of Impact, which Kirkus Reviews called "A fast-paced detective novel enhanced by exceptional characters and a striking ending."
Praise for Bryan Cassiday's Thriller Bolt
“From the very start, Bryan Cassiday spins what appears to be a typical Southern Californian private investigation novel in Bolt, but quickly takes off in a direction that speaks to our current troubled times. Well-plotted and crisply written, with great characterization, this is one to look for.”--Brendan DuBois, coauthor with James Patterson of The Cornwalls Are Gone.
"Noir suspense at its best! Private eyes, hit men, globe-trotting, and characters you don't know whether you can trust or not. Fans of James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, and Fredrick Forsyth will love Bolt!"--Matthew Farrell, best-selling author of What Have You Done
Praise for Bryan Cassiday's Zombie Books
"The plot engages from the beginning and holds the reader's interest until the last page."--The Booklife Prize on Horde
"Cassiday blends thoughtful suspense and pulse-pounding terror to deliver a novel with both bite and creeping dread."--David Dunwoody, author of Empire and The Harvest Cycle
"Written with the epic scope of World War Z and infused with the gritty spook works derring-do of a Robert Ludlum spy thriller, Sanctuary in Steel is full of zombie mayhem through and through."--Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Inheritance
"Sanctuary in Steel made me feel like I did the first time I watched Romero. Fresh, exciting and engaging like any outbreak story should be."--Iain McKinnon, author of Domain of the Dead
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February 12, 2021
It's your typical zombie novel... lots of brain bashing, fetid chunks of rotting flesh, arguments amongst the living and how to handle the zombies... This is not something I would have picked out, I found the giveaway section and entered. Won it. If you like zombie books, it's good. At least it kept me entertained through out the whole book, but if you're not into zombie books then I'm not even sure why you are reading this review.
June 17, 2021
“Horde” is the sixth book in the Chad Halverson Zombie Apocalypse series. Ironically, the zombies were created by a plague that began in China. The first book in the series was written in 2011. The timing of reading this novel, during a pandemic, was perfect.
In this sixth episode, the story begins with the protagonist having no memory of how he ended up alone in a desert, or any recollection about who he is. Two men help rescue him and take him back to a compound where they reside with a ragtag group. Naming him “Box,” it quickly becomes apparent that he has had some elite military training and it is well ingrained into his psyche. The residents of the compound are not receptive to Box being there. They fear he might be a carrier for the plague. When the compound is taken by force, things get even more precarious for Box and several others who have aligned themselves with him. The new leader is demented and cruel, and he doesn’t trust Box or his friends. The residents of the compound soon show that they are weak willed and will do anything to show support to their new leader. This means putting Box’s group in danger. They have to fight both the new regime and the zombie attacks in order to survive. When Box remembers who he is, which is Chad Halverson, he also remembers that he needs to resume his mission in hopes of saving the country.
“Horde,” moves quickly. Readers will get so caught up in the story, they will have to remember to breathe! This is the first book that I read in this series and I was very impressed. While I suspect readers will enjoy reading the books in order of the series, it is actually not necessary to do so, because it stands well on its own. If I had read the previous books in the series, I would have known the identity of the protagonist, and what he had already gone through, but again, not necessary. I enjoyed discovering who he was, as the character himself regained his memories.
While I love a good zombie apocalypse with a lot of blood and guts, such as this one, I also enjoyed watching how sociological aspects of the story affected how the residents of the compound treated the protagonist and his group. I felt that the desperate struggle to survive had them easily following a leader who made them act in ways in which they wouldn’t have in normal circumstances. This would be a brilliant book for a sociology student to read!
It was also interesting to read this while being in lock down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It kind of made me grateful that our symptoms usually aren’t as bad as the plague in this series, but the horror aspects of the story also made me a bit fearful about what our future holds. Yes, I know it was fiction, but I have an imagination that tends to wander and wonder. Fans of zombie apocalypse adventures will really enjoy “Horde.”
In this sixth episode, the story begins with the protagonist having no memory of how he ended up alone in a desert, or any recollection about who he is. Two men help rescue him and take him back to a compound where they reside with a ragtag group. Naming him “Box,” it quickly becomes apparent that he has had some elite military training and it is well ingrained into his psyche. The residents of the compound are not receptive to Box being there. They fear he might be a carrier for the plague. When the compound is taken by force, things get even more precarious for Box and several others who have aligned themselves with him. The new leader is demented and cruel, and he doesn’t trust Box or his friends. The residents of the compound soon show that they are weak willed and will do anything to show support to their new leader. This means putting Box’s group in danger. They have to fight both the new regime and the zombie attacks in order to survive. When Box remembers who he is, which is Chad Halverson, he also remembers that he needs to resume his mission in hopes of saving the country.
“Horde,” moves quickly. Readers will get so caught up in the story, they will have to remember to breathe! This is the first book that I read in this series and I was very impressed. While I suspect readers will enjoy reading the books in order of the series, it is actually not necessary to do so, because it stands well on its own. If I had read the previous books in the series, I would have known the identity of the protagonist, and what he had already gone through, but again, not necessary. I enjoyed discovering who he was, as the character himself regained his memories.
While I love a good zombie apocalypse with a lot of blood and guts, such as this one, I also enjoyed watching how sociological aspects of the story affected how the residents of the compound treated the protagonist and his group. I felt that the desperate struggle to survive had them easily following a leader who made them act in ways in which they wouldn’t have in normal circumstances. This would be a brilliant book for a sociology student to read!
It was also interesting to read this while being in lock down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It kind of made me grateful that our symptoms usually aren’t as bad as the plague in this series, but the horror aspects of the story also made me a bit fearful about what our future holds. Yes, I know it was fiction, but I have an imagination that tends to wander and wonder. Fans of zombie apocalypse adventures will really enjoy “Horde.”
July 20, 2021
I won this book in a goodreads drawing.
Some guy is sitting in the desert. He has no memory. Some survivors help him out, and they kill a bunch of zombies. They get to the camp, which is taken over by a power monger who wants to take over the country.
From there, we get a lot of political type machinations, and some allegory to the present pandemic. About what a zombie story is supposed to deliver.
Some guy is sitting in the desert. He has no memory. Some survivors help him out, and they kill a bunch of zombies. They get to the camp, which is taken over by a power monger who wants to take over the country.
From there, we get a lot of political type machinations, and some allegory to the present pandemic. About what a zombie story is supposed to deliver.
June 19, 2021
This ain't The Walking Dead
What a disjointed mess. Ys have the zombie plague. But is it only passed by bite or also by spores she'd by the dead? Then we have the amnesiac wandering in the Arizona desert. He's rescued by a group holed up in a warehouse, who are customers of a drug cartel. The warehouse people are invaded by a psychopath and his minions. And then 60 pages or so from the end, poof! Look, it's the president of the United States. If you want good zombie fiction, I'd suggest Newsflash series by Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire).
What a disjointed mess. Ys have the zombie plague. But is it only passed by bite or also by spores she'd by the dead? Then we have the amnesiac wandering in the Arizona desert. He's rescued by a group holed up in a warehouse, who are customers of a drug cartel. The warehouse people are invaded by a psychopath and his minions. And then 60 pages or so from the end, poof! Look, it's the president of the United States. If you want good zombie fiction, I'd suggest Newsflash series by Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire).
January 25, 2022
DNR
I wasn’t able to get very far into this story for many reasons. I have come to realize once I hit a certain point in my notetaking, it’s usually time for me to stop. That’s what happened here.
I couldn't stand Danny. He annoyed me to no end with his comments about Box. Whether he was a zombie or if he was involved with the people who set off the mortar, even though none of them knew who fired it. On a side note, you're given the task to name someone and you go with Box. Why?
There was so much repetition/redundancy - stating things that were common sense or should have been common sense. It seemed to focus on nouns. It was hard for me to believe this wasn’t the author’s first book. For example: Danny: “Do you have any bites on YOUR BODY?”
Woman: “No.”
Danny: “We need to inspect YOUR BODY.”
Or “The camp turned out to be a WAREHOUSE… A chain-link fence encompassed the WAREHOUSE.”
Or there were buildings that were covered in graffiti THAT WAS SCRAWLED ON THEM.” (A perfect example of redundancy. What does graffiti mean? Where else would the graffiti be?)
The narrator annoyed me. I was very annoyed overall, I guess. When he spoke normally/naturally, he was fine. But the voice he did for the narration and Porter's voice was an I'm-trying-to-sound-tough voice or the voice of a detective from the fifties or even... Batman. It was just too unnatural sounding, dragging out words that didn’t need to be. I’ve said this many times in reviews: A narrator can make or break a story. In this case, he added nothing to it.
Comments/Questions:
There were way too many simple (no action) dialogue tags. When there are only two characters talking, there is no need to constantly go with "Porter said... Danny said" every time one of them spoke. There was also too much repetitiveness between Porter and Danny about what they thought was going on with Box, the PTSD, him being a zombie or whatever.
The conversation between Porter and Danny with the "wino" was too long. It just dragged with the repetitive "he's not one of them" or something along that line. A similar conversation took place after they got back to the campsite too.
At the beginning, when Box went to stand, it said his legs "were stiff and sore." Given this part of the story was not being told in Box's POV, ie only Box would know his legs were sore, this was a mess-up. After this, I realized the POV changed a lot between Box and Porter within the same scene which was a no-no. You want to stick to one POV per scene unless the story is plot-driven. Whereas I believe this one is character-driven. One time the POV went to the rats that had been eating the horse. Then it changed to the lady’s POV after she decided to go with them.
At one point, Box was wracking his “brains.” And he did this several times.
Besides the above complaints regarding poor writing, there was this: “Porter fired the Taurus engine. He stepped on the gas and drove straight at the mob of ghouls. … Reaching sixty miles an hour with the Taurus, Porter ran into the throng of plotting corpses. His plan was to plow through the wall of living corpses. [First off, unless they’re suddenly in a different vehicle, there’s no need to mention them being in a Taurus again, so soon after it’s first revealed to the reader. The reader should assume they’re still in that same Taurus. Second, “Porter ran into the corpses” is sufficient. Redundancy took over with the next line: “His plan was to plow through the wall of living corpses.” Obviously, that was why he ran through them.
Or there was this scene when they were in the car and zombies were too close. It was essentially written as Danny put up his window. Porter put up his window. Box put up his window.
The reader was told “the president nuked cities to kill the zombies [Should have ended it there] from spreading the plague.” Why else would he have nuked the cities? Zombies are all the same. They spread all over the world, killing people and turning them into zombies.
Here we go with the repeated conversations again. This time it was between Porter and the three-person gang whose car was blocking their way. “They were trying (or wanted) to jack our car.”
The horse appeared from the woods. There was a zombie hanging onto its stomach. The stomach was ripped open with organs spilling out, yet it was still on its feet. Oh, and to add more details to the scene of this one “character,” there were also rats trying to eat the entrails. I felt this was overdone.
“Everything’s going to pot,” the lady said. If the zombies have been around ten years, wouldn’t that have happened years prior? Or her commenting that the gas stations were out of gas. The doc said: “It’s only “teetering” on the brink of chaos”? Keep in mind this is the first book I’ve listened to/read by this author so I don’t know any of the backstory.
How did they know the zombies have spores? Or that people could be asymptomatic if there was no proof that’s possible? They didn’t. Yet they kept talking about both. Why?
After ten years, they still have lots of bandages, enough to waste on little boo-boos?
The lady (whose name, for the life of me, I can’t remember) described how her sister died. “The ghouls bathed in blood, humming in ecstasy.” Right… Again, I felt the details were overdone here. I did find it interesting that Porter and the woman both described their loved ones being killed in such detail.
The woman asked: If Box wasn’t a psychiatrist, how could he know about Stockholm Syndrome? What year was the story taking place in? I’d imagine a high percentage of people know what it means.
“Box knew he was out of shape”… every time he was about to start a new exercise.
The campsite’s people needed drugs “otherwise they’ll revolt.” Why not just leave then? Go on your own path? But, speaking of drugs… there was a cartel still around? With hitmen?
I received a free audiobook code in exchange for a review.
I wasn’t able to get very far into this story for many reasons. I have come to realize once I hit a certain point in my notetaking, it’s usually time for me to stop. That’s what happened here.
I couldn't stand Danny. He annoyed me to no end with his comments about Box. Whether he was a zombie or if he was involved with the people who set off the mortar, even though none of them knew who fired it. On a side note, you're given the task to name someone and you go with Box. Why?
There was so much repetition/redundancy - stating things that were common sense or should have been common sense. It seemed to focus on nouns. It was hard for me to believe this wasn’t the author’s first book. For example: Danny: “Do you have any bites on YOUR BODY?”
Woman: “No.”
Danny: “We need to inspect YOUR BODY.”
Or “The camp turned out to be a WAREHOUSE… A chain-link fence encompassed the WAREHOUSE.”
Or there were buildings that were covered in graffiti THAT WAS SCRAWLED ON THEM.” (A perfect example of redundancy. What does graffiti mean? Where else would the graffiti be?)
The narrator annoyed me. I was very annoyed overall, I guess. When he spoke normally/naturally, he was fine. But the voice he did for the narration and Porter's voice was an I'm-trying-to-sound-tough voice or the voice of a detective from the fifties or even... Batman. It was just too unnatural sounding, dragging out words that didn’t need to be. I’ve said this many times in reviews: A narrator can make or break a story. In this case, he added nothing to it.
Comments/Questions:
There were way too many simple (no action) dialogue tags. When there are only two characters talking, there is no need to constantly go with "Porter said... Danny said" every time one of them spoke. There was also too much repetitiveness between Porter and Danny about what they thought was going on with Box, the PTSD, him being a zombie or whatever.
The conversation between Porter and Danny with the "wino" was too long. It just dragged with the repetitive "he's not one of them" or something along that line. A similar conversation took place after they got back to the campsite too.
At the beginning, when Box went to stand, it said his legs "were stiff and sore." Given this part of the story was not being told in Box's POV, ie only Box would know his legs were sore, this was a mess-up. After this, I realized the POV changed a lot between Box and Porter within the same scene which was a no-no. You want to stick to one POV per scene unless the story is plot-driven. Whereas I believe this one is character-driven. One time the POV went to the rats that had been eating the horse. Then it changed to the lady’s POV after she decided to go with them.
At one point, Box was wracking his “brains.” And he did this several times.
Besides the above complaints regarding poor writing, there was this: “Porter fired the Taurus engine. He stepped on the gas and drove straight at the mob of ghouls. … Reaching sixty miles an hour with the Taurus, Porter ran into the throng of plotting corpses. His plan was to plow through the wall of living corpses. [First off, unless they’re suddenly in a different vehicle, there’s no need to mention them being in a Taurus again, so soon after it’s first revealed to the reader. The reader should assume they’re still in that same Taurus. Second, “Porter ran into the corpses” is sufficient. Redundancy took over with the next line: “His plan was to plow through the wall of living corpses.” Obviously, that was why he ran through them.
Or there was this scene when they were in the car and zombies were too close. It was essentially written as Danny put up his window. Porter put up his window. Box put up his window.
The reader was told “the president nuked cities to kill the zombies [Should have ended it there] from spreading the plague.” Why else would he have nuked the cities? Zombies are all the same. They spread all over the world, killing people and turning them into zombies.
Here we go with the repeated conversations again. This time it was between Porter and the three-person gang whose car was blocking their way. “They were trying (or wanted) to jack our car.”
The horse appeared from the woods. There was a zombie hanging onto its stomach. The stomach was ripped open with organs spilling out, yet it was still on its feet. Oh, and to add more details to the scene of this one “character,” there were also rats trying to eat the entrails. I felt this was overdone.
“Everything’s going to pot,” the lady said. If the zombies have been around ten years, wouldn’t that have happened years prior? Or her commenting that the gas stations were out of gas. The doc said: “It’s only “teetering” on the brink of chaos”? Keep in mind this is the first book I’ve listened to/read by this author so I don’t know any of the backstory.
How did they know the zombies have spores? Or that people could be asymptomatic if there was no proof that’s possible? They didn’t. Yet they kept talking about both. Why?
After ten years, they still have lots of bandages, enough to waste on little boo-boos?
The lady (whose name, for the life of me, I can’t remember) described how her sister died. “The ghouls bathed in blood, humming in ecstasy.” Right… Again, I felt the details were overdone here. I did find it interesting that Porter and the woman both described their loved ones being killed in such detail.
The woman asked: If Box wasn’t a psychiatrist, how could he know about Stockholm Syndrome? What year was the story taking place in? I’d imagine a high percentage of people know what it means.
“Box knew he was out of shape”… every time he was about to start a new exercise.
The campsite’s people needed drugs “otherwise they’ll revolt.” Why not just leave then? Go on your own path? But, speaking of drugs… there was a cartel still around? With hitmen?
I received a free audiobook code in exchange for a review.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 24, 2021
Horde is clearly a product of the times. It’s a zombie apocalypse book written with a heavy influence from the COVID-19 pandemic. With people worried about things like face masks, quarantining, and social distancing, the zombie apocalypse sounds like an event with which we are all too familiar.
Bryan Cassiday takes on the oft overplayed zombie apocalypse novel. However, he mixes in current events to give the zombie tale a unique twist. He combines everything that this last year brought us. Most of the novel takes place in an encampment in Arizona, where mistrust runs high. The camp is filled with confusion regarding the nature of the plague. There is much debate on whether the zombie plague can be transmitted through spores released through the breath of zombies and if there are symptomless human carriers of the disease.
Horde does not limit its scope of yearly commentary to pandemic-related affairs, however. There is also a president who seems to be losing his grip on reality as he declares himself president for life and begins to nuke cities across the United States in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Not to mention, an attempted overthrow of the government by a group of armed vigilantes.
The anger and confusion of people trapped in what feels like a neverending nightmare is very relatable for modern-day readers. Chaos rules in the world created by Cassiday. He shines light upon all of the senseless arguments and endless fighting that occurs in our world with nobody willing to really listen to the point of view of anyone else who disagrees with them. The protagonist, Box, is more confused than anyone. He is taken into the camp after being found out in the desert. He has no memory of who he is or how he got there and is completely shocked to learn of a zombie plague.
The characters in Horde are typically representative of various outspoken groups and portrayed with much exaggeration. While on the surface, it is a zombie apocalypse story, the threat posed by humanity is far more in the forefront than the danger of the plague. The zombies mostly serve as background for a tale about how bad things can get between people when our everyday lives get turned upside down. It serves as a mirror to show us how easily we can all become lost amid the difficulties of the world we live in today.
Bryan Cassiday takes on the oft overplayed zombie apocalypse novel. However, he mixes in current events to give the zombie tale a unique twist. He combines everything that this last year brought us. Most of the novel takes place in an encampment in Arizona, where mistrust runs high. The camp is filled with confusion regarding the nature of the plague. There is much debate on whether the zombie plague can be transmitted through spores released through the breath of zombies and if there are symptomless human carriers of the disease.
Horde does not limit its scope of yearly commentary to pandemic-related affairs, however. There is also a president who seems to be losing his grip on reality as he declares himself president for life and begins to nuke cities across the United States in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Not to mention, an attempted overthrow of the government by a group of armed vigilantes.
The anger and confusion of people trapped in what feels like a neverending nightmare is very relatable for modern-day readers. Chaos rules in the world created by Cassiday. He shines light upon all of the senseless arguments and endless fighting that occurs in our world with nobody willing to really listen to the point of view of anyone else who disagrees with them. The protagonist, Box, is more confused than anyone. He is taken into the camp after being found out in the desert. He has no memory of who he is or how he got there and is completely shocked to learn of a zombie plague.
The characters in Horde are typically representative of various outspoken groups and portrayed with much exaggeration. While on the surface, it is a zombie apocalypse story, the threat posed by humanity is far more in the forefront than the danger of the plague. The zombies mostly serve as background for a tale about how bad things can get between people when our everyday lives get turned upside down. It serves as a mirror to show us how easily we can all become lost amid the difficulties of the world we live in today.
August 6, 2021
I won this book in the Goodreads Giveaway drawing. This is the 2nd book by this author that I read. I like his zombie stories. The book had alot of drama between characters and it was a plus to the story, but the action was a little less than I would have wanted. The main character "Box" has a problem with remebering the past and at the end of the book, it seemed as though he was givin some of his past memories back. It did not make sence to me. Just my opinion. The next character "Zodiac" was a true evil that the story needed. My favorite part of the book was when Zodiac ordered live people to be thrown from a caperpult into a crowd of zombies. I felt it was original and funny. If you read fast, then you can probably finish this book in one setting. A good story, just a few areas that could have been better.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 14, 2022
Wobbly
This one turned into a tough one for me. It started off well with a good storyline. Some of the details seemed a little heavy in places but it wasn't bad. As the story progressed it did okay till maybe a little more than halfway through where it started to just feel like it was disseminating. It really felt like it went from being a zombie story to a government / military thing. Almost like the story couldn't make up its mind. Towards the very end there was an overload of details describing some of the zombies that just really felt like it was more filler than story. I have not read the first five books in this series as I didn't realize there were others when I got this one. I gave it three stars because it started well and I was able to finish the story. I'm just left a bit unfulfilled at the end. I am curious how the first five books went though.
This one turned into a tough one for me. It started off well with a good storyline. Some of the details seemed a little heavy in places but it wasn't bad. As the story progressed it did okay till maybe a little more than halfway through where it started to just feel like it was disseminating. It really felt like it went from being a zombie story to a government / military thing. Almost like the story couldn't make up its mind. Towards the very end there was an overload of details describing some of the zombies that just really felt like it was more filler than story. I have not read the first five books in this series as I didn't realize there were others when I got this one. I gave it three stars because it started well and I was able to finish the story. I'm just left a bit unfulfilled at the end. I am curious how the first five books went though.
April 13, 2021
I won a copy of Horde by Bryan Cassiday in a Goodreads giveaway. I did not realize that this is the sixth book in the series. I probably would have enjoyed it more of I had read the earlier books first but this was still a good story. I enjoyed the setting 10 years after a zombie virus outbreak but some of the characters were underdeveloped and not easily identified with. The ending was abrupt and I am unsure if there are more books coming in this series. I liked the book but don't think I will be reading the other books.
August 23, 2021
The first 11 chapters of this book went down easy as candy. Didn't know I had gotten so far ahead because it captures you with its storyline right away. I thought this was gonna be a 5-star book but I got sucker-punched in the middle of it. There is a phrase/dialogue that comes up by this one character and literally is mentioned over and over in every other "scene" with her. The repetition not only kills your focus but becomes annoying and quickly turns you off.
August 14, 2021
This was just too gruesome for me. I guess if horror is your thing, you might enjoy this but I had to bail. I did read 'Bolt' by this same author and, although it was very edgy, found it an easier story to enjoy.
I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway for this honest review.
I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway for this honest review.
September 5, 2021
Was okay, took me a long time to finiah
May 2, 2022
love Zombie books
Great series, can’t wait to hear how Chad ghettos out of the bunker. Sorry to hear about Victoria and what happens the last ten years.
Great series, can’t wait to hear how Chad ghettos out of the bunker. Sorry to hear about Victoria and what happens the last ten years.
June 29, 2022
love this series
Constant action throughout the book. Keeps you in suspense the main character is my favorite part of the story. I recommend reading this book
Constant action throughout the book. Keeps you in suspense the main character is my favorite part of the story. I recommend reading this book
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