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

Welcome people. After reviewing the first two books in Darren Shan's Zom-B series, I decided to take to the third book, Zom-B: City (2013) like narrator and protagonist B took to London. In this novel we see B roaming the streets of London to determine what state the outside world is in since the zombies attacked. Throughout the novel we meet a varied range of characters including Coley, Timothy Jackson and Sister Clare to name a few. A small number of the characters I liked; most of them I did not. One character who I met in the first novel, raised suspicions then and here in this novel, they made me loathe them. I will not give away the spoiler of who, in case anyone wants to read the series...

The characters are what made this novel excellent because of how often characters made me react. Depending on the character (no spoilers given), I winced, I shuddered, I cringed, I became discombobulated and even I felt sick. The only character I liked, aside from B was Timothy Jackson. Nevertheless, I am questioning the mind of an artist who enjoys painting zombies hung up in the street who also had to become heartless. Still... having a friend who ‘almost killed me’¹ as Timothy said and who is no longer "here" as if, might push you to that... I do not see Timothy as a bad character, but rather someone who has to survive this nightmarish world which has pushed him into perhaps a different him that adjusts to all the nasties and evils of the world around him. Ask yourself, is it cruel to keep zombies trapped and painting them, or rather should they be set free when I run the risk of being killed? Exactly.

Thinking about the first two novels in the series, Darren Shan has kept the momentum going with another scary novel filled with intensity. I am giving Zom-B: City a 9.5/10.


Until next time,


Thomas.


Footnotes:

¹ Darren Shan, Zom-B: City (London: Simon and Schuster, 2013), 117.


Bibliography:

Shan, Darren. Zom-B: City. London: Simon and Schuster, 2013.

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