Fictional novel review: Zom-B (2012) by Darren Shan.

Welcome to today's blog post readers. Today I am reviewing my first Darren Shan work, Zom-B (2012) as he is author of the month. His first novel in this twelve part series was a disgusting, creepy action-packed story when zombies start to attack. Not everyone believes the zombies are real. The protagonist known as 'B', is one of them. B's influencing problem is her father.

Aside from the zombies, B's father is the other main distraction in the novel. B struggles with what B' father says. B knows he is extremely racist and Darren Shan has highlighted this very well in his novel. I can see in this novel that Shan has emphasised this racist idea of 'us vs them'. While it is clear that B tries to be so different from this racist that we see with B's father, sometimes B almost as if gets trapped. B does not want to be racist though at times is. I dislike B for that and it does disgust me. However, I can see how B's father is far worse. He is racist, violent and a ignorant pig. The person who I feel sorry for is B's mother because she suffers. That thought that you are trapped and cannot overcome someone's hold over you is truly heartbreaking to read. Though we never discover is B's mother is racist or not.

B's father is the reason for B's problems, especially towards the end. When the zombies attack, I find that B cannot choose the most villainous of two evils. But as the novel progresses, the tensions and fears rise, and the sudden realisation hits all the characters. I really like how some characters are proven wrong. This creepy novel had me on edge the more I read and I got so engrossed in it. This is an amazing novel which I am giving a 9.5/10.


Until next time,


Thomas.

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