I finished another book. Look at me go!
27. Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo
An Australian super-soldier commando-type and his family escape a zombie-esque apocalypse by boat, and make a plan to save the USA.
Well. This is the first of a series of eight or so books, and being that I thought it involved zombies (it is actually "infecteds", humans who've contracted a biological warfare disease, a la the Rage virus in 28 Days Later) I was hopeful that I'd found a new series to enjoy.
I was very, very wrong.
The premise - in which, once Steve and his family make it to the high seas, they plan to follow distress beacons and try to find other survivors - is good, which is probably what gained this story it's lone star. But honestly, this was a slog to get through. Every character sounds the same, which made it confusing to follow who was who. Unless, of course, you were one of the people that didn't want to follow our hero Steve's plan. Then you were just rude and ungrateful (and sometimes a rapist.) There was far too much tech-jargon about what kind of bullets this gun needs and what gun is best for what job and how much gear one needs to wear to fight Infecteds, including one instance where the entire paragraph is just a list of what one girl is wearing.
Oh, and that girl? She's the actual 'hero' of the story, a 13 year old who constantly cracks one-liners, is a rebel who goes out a-zombie-huntin' even when she's been told to stay put, can take on dozens of Infecteds all on her lonesome (oh, and yes, crack some more one-liners while she's being pummeled) and is the most badass of all badasses in a world of badassery. I wanted to shoot her in the face.
So all that, and it's all written in a sort of passive laid-back way so even what should be the most exciting moments are just ho-hum boring. *sigh*
1/5 stars
Goodreads Reading Challenge 15 - takes place in global city
Popsugar Reading Challenge - does not meet criteria
413 pages
Books Read: 27/85
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 27/52
Popsugar Reading Challenge: 17/40
Total Pages Read: 9172
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