Book Review: Double Dead by Chuck Wendig
A vampire surviving a post-apocalyptic zombie plague? Sign me up!
In a world that is littered with incredibly bad novels about all manner of supernatural beings and their angst riddled eternal teenage lives comes a book that takes the traditional Vampire and thrusts him into a world of the dead.
No not with other Vamps, but Zombies.
The world has gone to hell in a hand basket, the living population of New York City and indeed the world has been turned into slavering mindless dead that roam their bloated corpses searching for a semblance of what once was life.
Coburn awakes to find himself barely sustained by a trickle of blood, his body a dried husk of cracked leather… and hungry.
Now he has to fight across the familiar wastes that was once New York for a few drops of precious blood. That precious blood that resides in the bodies of survivors of the Zombie hordes.
Coburn has to make the ultimate choice, protect the Humans that are his last hope from starvation or gorge himself silly in the last grand feast of his unnatural life…
Chuck Wendig is a formidable writer and Double Dead really does showcase the visceral world in which Wendig constructs around Coburn and his struggle to survive.
This is survivalist horror thrown on its head and given a good hard kick to the testicles. I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is sick of reading supernatural stories about how bad it is to go through high school and get a boyfriend. I would also totally recommend this book to those who would enjoy a blood and guts romp through the rotting core of a diseased world.
This one is not for the faint of heart as Wendig doesn’t hold back on the blood and guts, gore and mayhem.
The few words that I can put in this review can’t even begin to equate how good this book is.
Pick it up and get reading!
4 out of 5 stars
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