The AM13 Outbreak has affected everywhere, the entire world has experienced infection.Victims of the virus are no longer human, they’ve changed, become something scientifically impossible. With their loss of human function and their new lust for flesh, there’s only one word to describe them…Zombies.The world is divided as everyone tries to work out how to survive. Many have already lost their … Many have already lost their lives
in the fight, but there are still a few who are not dead…
Yet!
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Brraaaaaiiins!
Okay, it sounded bad last time, it sounds bad even now. Samie Sands is back with the fourth volume of the AM 13 Outbreak series (see my review here). And, if my little joke didn’t have too much fun then, now is definitely out of line. Why? Because this volume is truly the crowning of the series as subject, as a theme and literary value. For so much time I‘ve not seen such a gain for a writer as Samie’s and for us as readers. Last time, I’d made some little jokes about the concept of the British zombie books – the first volume of the series seemed to me a little flimsy in the way in which the main character was presented, from her maddening hesitance and lack of initiative. Yes, introspective seems to be the keyword of the series, but this time, everything is under another sign.
Let’s finish with what it was and let’s deal with the book that is important for us now: Not Dead Yet. You could interpret this book not just like a single novel, but like a collection of short stories. Each chapter presents us new protagonists and new situations. Of course, the main theme will be the zombie apocalypse, but the situations in which they find themselves will be different and everybody will react in a different way. Don’t expect fists and bullets to fly in every direction. This is not Samie’s style. If you look for something like this, you better watch the new series of The Walking Dead. No, she’s in charge of the human soul and the way in which people react in an unexpected and strange situation. Yeah, the struggle with tribulations is the battle that the author imposes on her characters. Sure, will be some physical moments, let’s say, but not these will be the essence of Samie’s stories. Samie’s strength is not one of the fists that smash a jaw, is the one of the heart. If the soul will win this fight you will find for yourselves.
The stories are not by far cute, they are quite serious about their theme. There is a wave of melancholy that pervades, some of the stories could be even depressing, but they are beautiful as a symbolical message. If in my old review I’ve had some small critics, this time I’m very pleased with what I’ve read. And if you let yourselves fooled and say that because the novel is written by a woman it’s a book for girls stuffed with delicate and swanky things, you’ll be sooooo wrong.
Not Dead Yet will distill the whole series, and the final product will be one of great value. This is a novel that definitely will be appreciated even by those that are not too much in zombie books.
Too many words are plenteousness. This is the book that you must read if you are tired of the classical zombie stories.
Enough! The rest is silence!
Enjoy… if you dare!
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The zombie outbreak has spread across the whole world. Not Dead Yet tells the stories of some of the people whose lives the outbreak has affected in different parts of the world. Some were on vacation and now wish they had never gone on vacation. They wish they had been at home when the outbreak occurred.
Not Dead Yet reads like an anthology of different stories telling a little bit about someone’s lives during the zombie outbreak. Some stories tell how a person exchanges one monster for another, a zombie monster, or a human monster. Some are told through letters, some are told through a diary, some are told while looking through a camera lens.
Each story is told by a different person and from a different place. Stories came from New York, Germany, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Salem plus a whole lot more. With each story Not Dead Yet just got better and better. Each character added their own unique little pizazz to the outbreak stories.
There was mystery, suspense, action with a little drama added in to make the stories superb. Samie Sands is a master storyteller who knows just the right words to pull you into one of her stories and keep you hanging on for the ride of your life. You feel as if you are right there with the characters as if you are a part of the stories oh but watch out you may not be dead yet but you just might be before the end.
If you are like me and love zombie stories then you are going love Not Dead Yet. If you are a fan or not I highly recommend Not Dead Yet. Before sure to check out all the other stories in the AM13 Outbreak Series. All the stories can be read as a stand-alone but I wouldn’t recommend it not if you are a zombie fan like me. One-click your copy of all the books in the AM13 Outbreak Series today if you want to fight some zombies!