Fictional novel review: Zom-B: underground (2013) by Darren Shan.

I am here again with more Zom-B scariness from author of the month Darren Shan. This time I am reviewing his second novel in the 12 part Zom-B series - Zom-B: Underground (2013).

SHHH! Secrecy, cover ups and deception are sprawled throughout this horror novel. As zombies and B's racist dad plagued B's world in the first novel, Zom-B (2012), it transpires how actions can have consequences. This novel demonstrates how one person's deception and dishonesty can cost them a lot, sometimes including their life. The novel carries on from the first novel. However where that was in the streets, homes, school and so forth, this second novel was underground.

Reading this, I discovered that being underground does not equal safe and out of harms way from the zombies, or anything for that matter. B's previous life was when B was just a normal school kid with no worries. Most of B' previous life has gone. Except the day B met the mutants. These hooded creeps gave me a huge ick and I had hoped that was the last of them. I found it a little confusing when it became clear that they were working with this Mr Dowling character. I am still wandering who is in charge here - the mutants or Mr Dowling? I do believe more answers and clues are provided the more novels one reads. I do intend to find out the truth to what is going on, one day...

Seeing humans, undead people and zombies clashing in this one complex, if that is what it can be called is weird. It is also scary in a way because there is no knowing what will happen. The gruesome shocking moments in the novel are delivered across the novel. These moments such as finding out the undead are eating human brain remains to survive was one that made my stomach turn slightly. Then seeing that terrifying Mr Dowling made me drop my book and shudder slightly.

This novel is disgusting, horrific and utterly creepy. It was an awesome book to read that delivered shock after shock and enabled me to become engrossed in it. I struggled to put the book down just like the first and I am going to give it a 9/10.


Until next time,


Thomas.

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