Desolation
These Dead Lands, Book 2
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Gesprochen von:
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R.C. Bray
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Von:
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Stephen Knight
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Scott Wolf
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Overrun and forced to escape the killing grounds of Fort Indiantown Gap, the survivors of the 10th Mountain Division once again find themselves on the road, in search of sanctuary from the threat of the reekers.
With a new plan in hand, Captain Phil Hastings, Master Sergeant Slater, and the acting president of the United States, Henry Cornell, lead their group of remaining forces toward Fort Bragg, NC, in an effort to enact Contingency operations that will save the United States from the clutches of the dead.
Meanwhile, Sergeant First Class Carl Ballantine, Staff Sergeant Guerra, and the remnants of the 10th Mountain Division join the National Guard and surviving civilians as they head west. Their destination: the fortress city of Colorado Springs.
Each group has its own mission...yet they are both inextricably linked. If one fails, the other is doomed as well. Hastings needs to save the nation, and Ballantine and the remnants of the storied 10th Mountain need to save Hastings. The only thing that is clear in all of this is that everyone needs to be saved...from the ravenous reekers.
©2021 Stephen Knight and Scott Wolf (P)2021 Podium Audio
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Chnoblibrot
- 29.11.2021
Even better!
Again a really enjoyable book and in my opinion even better than Part 1. Very nice to get some more fight scenes with the reekers. Looking forward to the next one.
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Gesamt2 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher3 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte3 out of 5 stars
- Chris Kohler
- 19.02.2022
Wasted potential
I like the idea of a military unit traveling by train through a zombie apocalypse, which is why I gave the story 3 stars, but this is not it.
Basically the whole book is mostly just people having boring conversations with each other, interrupted by a few action scenes.
I know what you are thinking when someone complains about "boring conversations". I must be a low IQ knuckle dragger who only wants action and isn't interested in character development, right?
Thing is, normally I have no problem with books that take their time. I liked reading "Dune" and "The Lord of the Rings" and even the "Silmarillion" and other classics that are infamous for being "chewy" and tough to read through, but what we get in this book here is something different. Ignore my warning and you will see.
It is literally just: Character A walks into character B and they have a long talk about who is the boss. Then character A walks into the next train car and has a long dick measuring contest with character C. Then he walks into the next train car and has a pissing contest with character D. And so on. It is tedious and it is just not well written, sorry.
One thing I find really hard to forgive in novels is when characters make lame, unfunny jokes and the other characters around them act as if they were Richard Pryor or something and made the funniest joke ever, because the author wants them to.
There is this really cringey scene where a bunch of soldiers wrangle a bunch of cows they find on a abandoned farm and afterwards the super cool Special Forces Operator character who organized the thing tries to be funny by making an awkward, cringey joke by giving a military report on "Operation C.O.W." and everyone acts as if that were the funniest thing ever.
I know enough soldiers to know that the vast majority of them have higher standards for what is funny than that.
Also, there is stuff in the story that just doesn't make sense, like when they unload a bunch of Humvees and MRAPs from flat bed rail cars in the middle of nowhere. That is just not possible. They use special platforms in train stations to do that and you definitely need those. In the book, the author hand-waves this problem away by mentioning some "ramps", but vehicle transport trains don't carry such ramps with them and ramps sturdy enough to allow a almost 20 ton heavy MRAP to get off a flatbed rail car, would be incredibly big and heavy and could not be handled by a hand full of soldiers. Besides, you'd have to disassemble the train and make room between each car, since obviously the vehicles can't turn on the flat beds and drive off to the sides.
Sorry about this nerdy diatribe, but in my opinion, details like that weigh heavy, especially in the Military Zombie subgenre.
Part of the appeal of that genre is for military nerds to fantasize about how it would be to be a soldier in such a situation. That means immersion is important and stuff like that ruins immersion.
And they strap a C-RAM close air defense system to their train and then one computer geek writes new code for it on his laptop to allow the radar to track and engage zombies on the ground....
Yeah...
This just screams: "Author saw a video of that thing, thought it was super cool and had to put it into his zombie novel, no matter what."
It comes across as childish and pandering.
Another thing I had a problem with was that I just didn't like many of the characters the author clearly wanted me to like.
There is a autistic kid in the books who is constantly freaking out and shitting his pants and never talking and generally a nightmare to be around, the way the author describes him. He clings to that female character who is not related to him and she wants nothing to do with him, which I frankly find quite understandable, but all the other characters around the two constantly force and even threaten her to adopt him and take care of him and change his diapers in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and the author apparently thinks the reader has to agree with that and be appalled by that woman's wish to be left alone and live her own life.
There even is a scene where a grizzled, old Marine, one of the heroes of the story, threatens to shoot her in the gut if she doesn't take care of the jabbering, screeching, self soiling nightmare.
And I as the reader am supposed to be on the side of that Marine somehow.
I'm not a monster. I volunteered in a facility for mentally handicapped people in my youth, pushed wheelchairs through the zoo and stuff like that, but in a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, where like 99% of all people are dying horrible deaths, my moral compass doesn't tell me that enslaving a woman as a unwilling surrogate mother for a totally dysfunctional, 100% dependent and probably never improving extreme autist, would be the right thing to do. Especially not when the same characters who apparently think the survival of that kid is absolutely paramount and worth enslaving someone else for, then abandon and sacrifice other characters to their deaths without much hesitation.
It isn't the worst zombie novel I ever read, not even the worst Military Zombie novel, but it just isn't good, sorry.
I got the feeling the author could do better and he did better when co-writing the "Retreat" series.
The moral weirdness, as I would call it, is another matter though. Not sure what's up with that.
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