Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1199764 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

The INCREDIBLE number of inconsistencies ruin this book
What more can I say? The INCREDIBLE number of inconsistencies RUIN this book in just the first 40 pages!!!!
Gates' inability to keep track of exactly how big the monstrosities are in relation to surrounding items, including humans, is astounding.
First they are large enough to throw cars then they can't even knock down a door.
They are so large that a dog can land on one of their noses yet a simple single bullet from a handgun blows away one of their faces "from eye to jaw"??? That would happen if a human shot another human with a shotgun, but something so massive (20 feet tall) wouldn't even flinch.
Another bullet spun one of them around when hit in the arm????

One changes relative size so many times in about three pages that I just stopped reading the book.

What he should have done was draw out a monster, then cars, buildings, animals, streets in relative size to the monster so he could keep track of what items are what sizes them. Simple.

It pisses me off when writers don't take the time to think things out carefully before starting to write.
What a waste of money it is to buy a book of such incompetent writing.

A waste of time
I am a big fan of horror alien invasion type novels,pass on this one trust me.At one point a boy turns into a 10 ft tall monster and has a beanie on his head?Please!

Humans Have Become Scarce
Joe Burton is out jogging one morning when the world comes to an end. Glowing orbs descend on the world. They pop into people through mouths and other openings. The people instantly transform into giant monsters (twenty-feet tall or more). These monster immediately start devouring the humans around it. Within minutes life as we know it is over even if the characters don't accept it yet. Joe helps a young boy and a drug-addicted young woman. They start running and keep staying just ahead of the monsters. Eventually they manage to find a hiding place and catch a breather. Their group grows with the addition of a young woman who is an artist. Together they try to make their way out of the city and to safety.

Along the way we meet many other characters and survivor groups. We also see more and more different types of monsters. Trials and tragedy are met at almost every turn until it is discovered what the monsters and orbs are up to. They do seem to have a plan and are not just mindless eating machines. In the end the book sort of stops and one has to wonder if there will be a sequel so we can find out what happens next.

This reminded my of a Brian Keene novel. The world ends in the first few pages and we watch some survivors deal with it. But unlike Keene, this one is silly. The size of the monster is based on the original size of the victim we are told. But starting with the monster pigeon we see many cases where that just is not true. At one point our characters drop three or more stories, in a car, onto a flat warehouse roof. They survive and the roof holds. This is not the only case of physics going out the window but it is one of the biggest. The monsters are bother super strong and easily damaged. When eating people, the people's bodies act like the have been as well cooked as a roasted chicken with all the part separating easily. The globes had be destroyed with buckshot but can survive the heart of a massive explosion. The silliness goes on and on. With a little tweaking this could have been pretty good but it comes off like an issue of the Monsters Unleashed comic (or similar title). Good in a comic book sort of way but hard to take seriously.