So I just finished Monster Island by David Wellington and went in expecting a typical zombie horror novel filled with people trying to escape a zombie apocalypse. I was only half right, there are too separate stories in this novel, one involves a man who has his daughter taken away by women who is a warlord from Somolia and will give back his daughter if he gets some AIDS medication in New York.
That story arc has it's moments when the main character is fighting alongside the warlords assistants in the zombie infested city and the writer details every emotion he is going through while doing this for his daughter. The other story arc is the most interesting, it features a man who has become one of the dead, but still has his conscience. David does a fantastic job on creating what it's like being a person from the undead from the characters point of view, focusing on what it's like being hungry and being hunted by survivors, I wouldn't mind if the whole book was about it.
In the end though, it's worth a read for both storyline, they do intersect throughout the book and each chapter does get more intense. I might as well read the sequels to this to see if they're any better. If you're a zombie fan looking for a book that does things in a different point of view, then I would give this a go.
