Outpost by Adam Baker
My rating: 4/5 cats
do you like this??
then you will probably like this book.
it has very many awesome things in it, like arctic isolation and metal-spiked zombies and flamethrowers and the scariest cruise ship ever and only a couple of things that are crappy. and not even crappy-crappy, but just those little annoying impossibilities you can’t help but note when you are watching movies/reading books like these and you are like, “hold up, that doesn’t make sense.” or “but surely the timer would have run out by now,” kinds of things. they are pretty wonderfully summed up in the “view spoiler” of this review, so i am not going to bother typing them all out myself. i will just say “ditto, sister!”
and i liked it. it is an incredibly densely-written and slow-paced book, where most zombie books are zippy action and dialogue-based. this one is more focused on description, and it does a wonderful job with atmosphere and the whole icy wilderness is just as scary as the monsters, which is something i always appreciate – when we are reminded that nature will kill you just as quickly as any old zombie. the characters themselves are less-developed, but that’s okay, because you probably don’t want to get too attached to any of them.
because the arctic gets cold…
this works totally fine as a stand-alone book,although i see it is called #1, and i see there are 2 other titles listed, although none of these are available in my country.
gimmie the other ones, please,world! but not Unautomate Your Finances, because that looks like the real dud of the series.
