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The first half of this novel was probably the best-written YA featuring a zombie I've read, and I generally have a slight repulsion for the idea, so the fact that I actually LIKED this was rather impressive.
Taking place at the same time as Romero's first Dead movie and steadily marching through time as a handful of zombies who weren't summarily wiped out in the first outbreak quickly regained normal human consciousness, we follow this particular kid, Stony Mayhall. He grows up, being unusual eno ...more
Taking place at the same time as Romero's first Dead movie and steadily marching through time as a handful of zombies who weren't summarily wiped out in the first outbreak quickly regained normal human consciousness, we follow this particular kid, Stony Mayhall. He grows up, being unusual eno ...more
3.5 interesting concept in the zombie novel genre. The main character is a zombie who gets adopted by a family in Iowa. I really enjoyed the first third of the novel but liked the rest of it less. Some interesting ideas about how the zombies organised themselves.
This has been a banner year for me as far as zombie books are concerned. I read two excellent 2018 releases, Dread Nation and Devils Unto Dust, and now this earlier novel by Daryl Gregory.
My favourite aspect of Gregory's novels are the incredibly unique yet absolutely everyday characters who populate his stories. Raising Stony Mayhall is no exception. There are so many things I liked about this, all the little pieces that just came together and worked. I'm glad I finally got round to reading thi ...more
My favourite aspect of Gregory's novels are the incredibly unique yet absolutely everyday characters who populate his stories. Raising Stony Mayhall is no exception. There are so many things I liked about this, all the little pieces that just came together and worked. I'm glad I finally got round to reading thi ...more
This is my third book by Daryl Gregory and I'll just go ahead and add everything he's written to my TBR list. I love the way he writes about family, and his humor is right up my alley.
I thought this book was pretty awesome for the first half, and slightly less so for the second half, but there were still a lot of funny and thoughtful scenes.
A few favorite bits:
Kwang and Stony in the barn with a bow and arrow
Mr. Blunt's puns
Captain Calhoun Fishstix guy and his crazy plan
The Lump
The audiobook na ...more
I thought this book was pretty awesome for the first half, and slightly less so for the second half, but there were still a lot of funny and thoughtful scenes.
A few favorite bits:
Kwang and Stony in the barn with a bow and arrow
Mr. Blunt's puns
Captain Calhoun Fishstix guy and his crazy plan
The Lump
The audiobook na ...more
An emotional story about the Mayhall family, and their unusual, zombie son. There's chomping, since it's a zombie story, but it's really about the super strong relationships amongst the iron-willed Mayhall women, who totally upend their lives caring for Stony from when they find him with his dead mother by the road (soonish after the first big zombie apocalypse in 1968) to his middle age when the constantly feared next zombie apocalypse occurs. Because of his upbringing and childhood relationshi
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3.5 stars
Shortly after the '68 outbreak, Wanda Mayhall finds a dead woman and a child on the side of the road; the child is moving, but he isn't alive. As the Mayhalls care for him, unlike zombies are ought to, the child begins to grow up.
This was great! It takes some serious and unexpected turns in tone and focus multiple times throughout the book, and yet kept me hooked each time. The bummer that is zombie narratives (which is usually what keeps me away from them) is definitely here, but given that mos ...more
This was great! It takes some serious and unexpected turns in tone and focus multiple times throughout the book, and yet kept me hooked each time. The bummer that is zombie narratives (which is usually what keeps me away from them) is definitely here, but given that mos ...more
I read this book for a book club with Goodreads in the Spec Fic book club in October as a Halloween Read. For many years, I have been fascinated with the idea of zombies. I always joke around at Black Friday telling my family not to go to the shopping malls because "zombies are there and they will eat you!" In some ways, the complacency that I see in so many faces in the world is my idea that zombies are in some ways real. I read quite a lot of the Walking Dead graphic novels until they became t
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