Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?
Max Brallier
Gallery (Pocket), Feb 8 2011, $15.00
ISBN: 9781451607758
You the reader realize people are turning into zombies because you saw it on TV news. Zombies apparently have taken over much of Manhattan. You ride a train to Brooklyn you observe a zombie in your car dining on some poor victim. You must choose between intervening or move your butt to another car. Your adventures in the Zombie Apocalypse has begun as the reader makes moral choices in which being a hero may have the second order effect of becoming a zombie (remember as my nephew once told me John Wayne dies at the Alamo). Staten Island is rumored to be a non zombie zone, but to get there means riding the ferry where zombies seem to patrol the Manhattan side. Do you remain behind to help humanity fight the zombies, help the zombies raise awareness that they have rights too or do you move your butt to the free zone?
This is an adult version of the Choose Your Own Adventures (Max Brallier includes profanities and vivid gore including if you choose wrong yours). Fans of this genre will enjoy Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? there are numerous possibilities so if you end up zombie food, you can always back track and start either over in entirety or just take the other fork. Though zombies have starred in this genre (see Anson Montgomery’s Your Grandparents Are Zombies that targets young readers) this is lighthearted escapist fun for adults only.
Harriet Klausner
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