![]() There is also a surprise, soap-opera-style return, for a favourite character of mine. masturbating significantly less and starting to view women as people rather than breast-delivery mechanisms) Lesley McBrien, who is suffering from a bad case of survivor's guilt and Tony Campbell, who had a cameo at the end of Apocalypse Cow as the leader of the new British government. In terms of characters from the first book, it features Geldof Peters, who is maturing (i.e. Think Invasion of the Body Snatchers rather than Night of the Living Dead. In the company of the uninfected, however, they do tend to lose the plot. Humans now have the virus, but they are perfectly sentient, if a little more grumpy and horny, most of the time. You'll still find plenty of daftness to keep continuity with Apocalypse Cow, however.īe warned, though: this is not a zombie book as such. It is a slightly more serious, and less graphically violent, book - with wider themes around family, responsibility and governance. 'Twas a lot of fun to write, as I got to work with a larger canvas, take the characters into more complex emotional areas and invent combat yoga and cow bombs. This, obviously, is the sequel to Apocalypse Cow. Listen to somebody objective who knows what he/she is talking about. Either way, kids, don't base your buying decision on my rating. If I haven't removed the rating by the time you read this, either I have yet to sober up or I was so drunk that I forgot I encountered a sudden burst of red wine-induced confidence and gave myself a five-starry slap on the back. PISSED-UP EDIT: I'm now just drunk enough to give my own book full marks, even though I'm British and subscribe to the 'down with that sort of thing' attitude. Join my 3-emails-a-year mailing list #prizes This second book improves on an already enjoyable book 1, making the pair of them well worth your time. It's hard to be funny and tell a compelling tale at the same time. I'm guessing that very few Americans know who Noel Edmunds is, for example. There are plenty of references to British pop-culture / politics that would fly right past your average American, leaving them with a lesser read. ![]() I 'worry' that a non-British reader might flounder here. The writing reminds me a fair bit of Tom Sharpe (on form). ![]() There still is plenty of messy destruction though - fear not! The only bum notes in the consistency stakes were the three generals we occasionally flit to, and the 'deportation' of a key character.ĭespite the title the emphasis moves from the 'zombie' animals of book one to the human 'zombie' population, and has less focus on running and killing (or dying) with more politicking. It's a sharp, comedy horror that mixes genuine pathos with the laughs and actually circles around a set of surprisingly deep moral questions. In World War Moo Logan maintains consistency. If I've bought into a wry cynicism, I don't want it to suddenly become slapstick. I can buy into a level of humour &/or silliness but I need to feel that it isn't going to veer across the comedy map. With comedy / the absurd what I look for (apart from the obvious - it has to be FUNNY) is a consistent level. In the second book the reservations are gone. I loved the first book in this series with reservations.
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