Product Description

THE DEAD HAVE RISEN! In the dead city of Pittsburgh, two small enclaves struggle to survive, eking out an existence of hand to mouth. But instead of working together, both groups battle for the last remaining fuel and supplies of a city filled with the living dead. Six months after the initial outbreak, a lone helicopter arrives bearing two more survivors and a newborn baby. One enclave welcomes them, while the other schemes to steal their helicopter and escape the decaying city. With no police, fire, or social services existing, the two will battle for dominance in the steel city of the walking dead. But when the dust settles, the question is: will the remaining humans be the winners, or the losers? When the dead walk, the line between Heaven and Hell is so twisted and bent there is no line at all.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #368080 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

Customer Reviews

Complete rubbish and childlike. I want a refund!
I want to start off by saying a couple positive things about this author. I have read two books by Mr. Giangregorio, this book and "The Rage Plague". I ordered both novels at the same time, as I really wanted to give him a chance. I will say this: 1) He is persistent. He has over 20 self-published "novels" of Zombie Fiction. Which tells me that; 2) He loves writing about Zombies. But therein lies the problem, he cannot write, period. I don't know where to start with this book. It is just horrible. Boring would be a great adjective and it is not even original, the main characters are all borrowed from Romero. I can forgive the grammatical mistake and the horrid spelling errors, but the juvenile way in which this novel is written cannot. The manner in which the author tells his story is not even comparable with a bad movie.
The author thanks a Amazon reviewer (M.Wiggins)in the forward of this book for all of his "wisdom"! My advice: Don't waste your money on anything written by this author. I am completely stunned that Permuted Press published a book by this author. Garbage, I want my $20.00 back! If I could give this ZERO STARS I would.
If asked, my advice to Mr. Giangregorio would be the following: Instead of pumping out a 200 page incomplete and barely readable book every month, why not take 6 months and concentrate on trying to write a decent novel?

Sequel or re-run?
Oh man.
I really, really wanted to like this book.
It's a sequel to the 1978 "Dawn of the Dead" film. Picks up right where the movie ends. I really, really wanted to like it.
But all I can say is "meh."

You can tell Giangregorio is a fan of the movie, as the characters of Peter and Fran are dead on. But you can just as easily tell that an editor never stepped within 10 feet of the book.

There are a few typos, but that didn't bother me as much as the disjointed style. It felt a lot more like a friend telling you about an awesome book rather than an actual engrossing book.

Every time you started to get immersed in the story, a jarring change in style would smack you in the head and leave your ears ringing.

Giangregorio is a master of describing gore, and he puts his talents to good use, but by the end of the book, you're ready to put "ichor" on the list of words you never want to see again.

I stuck with the book to the end, hoping for an original twist or thought-provoking theme worthy of the man who's work Giangregorio is seeking to continue, but alas all I got was a lumbering corpse, it's empty eye sockets leaking a sticky, black ichor.

[Semi-spoiler alert:]

What was most disappointing was that the book's ending was pretty much just a repeat of the movie's ending--only with more explosions.

What's more, the second half of the book was almost a repeat of the first half, with absolutely none of the "good guys" learning a lesson from the first encounter. It seems like learning from near-death experiences would be mandatory for life in the Zombpocalypse.

[end semi-spoiler:]

All in all, the book was a decent read. Some cool ideas, and some decent imagery--the forklift in particular comes to mind :)
But in the end, those cool bits are dangling of a rotting, decrepit frame that needs to be shot in the head and put out of its misery.

About as unoriginal as they come
Everything about this book was completely derivative and unoriginal--from the plot (WHAT plot?) to the characters to the prose style. The characters were one-dimensional, and every single thing that happens in the book was predictable and clichéd. I couldn't even finish the book because I felt I was wasting the precious minutes of my life when I could be spending it on far better books or films.