| Title | : | My Zombie My (I Zombie, #2) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | Published October 2, 2011 |
My Zombie My picks up where I Zombie I left off and heads into Paris. Bethany’s gang of heroes has picked up a few more strays and mankind is getting dangerously close to the end. As Bethany battles the zombie horde she must crack the file, get the cure, and save the human race, before we are just meat for the beasts.
My Zombie My (I Zombie, #2) Reviews
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Oh, Zombies! Oh, wicked, gnawing zombies with your longing for brains and viscera and other things that should stay on the inside. There's something about you that both horrifies me and makes me keep reading! I think it's the moaning. Or maybe the way you can rip a person to shreds without batting an eyelash. Or possibly it's the way you scoop out brain meat like it's a fine delicacy.
As far as these zombies go, not only are they brutal and strong but they appear to be evolving at an alarming rate. Beth and her band of survivors are hitting a physical and emotional wall as things just keep getting worse and worse. To top it off, one of the driving forces behind Beth's need to keep herself moving and not succumb to the despair that's beginning to eat away at all of them is taken away and Beth is thrown into a tailspin.
Dark, brutal, and bloody, this book hypnotized me with its dangerous streets and the sense of betrayal that is lurking around every corner. The hits just keep on coming for these survivors and I'm starting to wonder if any of them are going to get out of this alive.
-Kelly @
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I read the first I Zombie novel, then immediately jumped into the second which I must say is probably how EVERYone should read it. I am not an apocalypse fiend or zombie gore lover, but this series is awesome. Jack has an amazing voice -- his characters come through as people I'd love to get to know. I adored the protagonist in I Zombie so I was worried about the change to the point of view of another character, but it was completely unfounded. Bethany is a refreshing heroine. As always, Jack's prose-like writing is as beautiful to read as the storyline is harrowing. I'm anxiously awaiting the third installment!
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The first book, I Zombie I, had enough interesting concepts to be enjoyable despite some plot issues/consistencies. It was decent enough for me to buy the sequel, My Zombie My. I was excited at the start because I love strong female leads who kick butt. What can be more fun than a smart girl hacker saving the world. Well, the world is screwed if we're depending on Bethany.
It's not a good thing when you start feeling remorse at spending $3.99 by the second chapter. I love zombie stories and have forced myself to finish even awful ones. This book was a struggle for me to finish and I had to think really hard about giving it 2 stars. Disclosure - I've stopped reading at 2/3 through and haven't been able to force myself to pick it back up yet.
Jack Wallen is not a bad writer. He just needs to think through his plot planning more and hire an editor to fix the continuity on his story. There were plot issues in the first book that I forgave but they were really bad in this sequel especially when it referenced the first book. It was like reading Swiss cheese because you can drive a tank through the logic or action every other chapter. The characters really failed in this sequel so the plot problems are more noticeable.
Plot: Super girl hacker, Bethany Nitshimi, escaped to Paris after the death of her lover, Jacob. She's pregnant with a hybrid zombie/human and has an encrypted file that may have the cure to the zombie situation. She's interacting with the world through a blog that she posts on the internet. Bethany is trying to stay alive long enough to find the cure.
PROS: Descriptive zombie fight scenes (just suspend any logic and ignore impossibilities). Zombie Radio - internet streaming show talking about zombies by survivors.
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CONS: The setup failed within the first two chapters. It took Bethany and her group a week to reach Paris from Munich because of massive hordes of undead and crowds of rioting humans. However, as soon as they entered Paris, there's nothing there. No undead roaming, no large group of humans. They waltzed into a hospital and simply started living there.
Bethany's first priority is to set up servers to check her email and post her blog. FAIL. They didn't bother to clear or check the hospital for any zombies or other humans until later. I don't know about you but there is no way that I wouldn't check every single inch of that hospital and locking things down before I even rest. After fighting for my life for several weeks through ZOMBIES, I would be super paranoid.
Bethany's super hacking skills come from downloading programs from a hacker forum. My opinions keep going down.
After being attacked by a zombie in their room, the group finally decided to check out the hospital. Well, zombies and humans are in there. All the food had been stolen and hoarded by someone that Bethany saw running around. So Bethany decided that, oh well, we'll just ignore the hostile human or humans in the hospital. Let's pretend they don't exist and don't tell anyone else in the party.
They trapped 5 zombies in the stairwell because there's apparently nothing in the hospital that can be used as a weapon. Have you ever been in a hospital? There's a ton of things that can be used vs. a scalpel. Heck, looking around at my office, I can see at least 3 items: trash can to hold off zombie, power strip and chair leg for my partner to smash the skull to bits.
Then they decided that they've done enough and don't need to check out the rest of the hospital. Of course, this means that someone gets killed later by going alone to a different floor that has not been cleared to take a shower. Why can't you take a shower in a room next door. Every hospital room has a shower.
Almost every chapter has stupid setups like this. For example, Bethany and Gunther barely survived a trip outside to get food yet two days later, she decided to send out 2 survivors unarmed. What was the purpose? She wanted a gourmet French dinner. These 2 young French survivors had to go out shopping. Needless to say, that didn't end well. The group flip flop between starvation (in a hospital with a food court) and wanting gourmet meals to raise their spirits. Apparently, this hospital didn't have snacks at the nurse stations like all US hospitals.
Sorry Bethany, for someone with an IQ higher than most Mensa's members, you're super stupid and lacking in basic common sense. I would put my faith in a paranoid 14 years old zombie geek over you.
Next are the MAJOR plot fails:
The virus was created by a physicist (Dr. Godwin - let's not talk about how difficult that is). He vaccinated himself and Susan (his fake daughter) before the release and yet they both got infected (from 1st book). In addition, Dr. Godwin created a cure just in case and left a message that he left clues about it on the CDC website. However, this man who created both the virus and the cure couldn't figure out how to synthesize the cure to save himself after he turned into a zombie. (In the first book, he was frantic and had no clue about the virus - now in the sequel, he seemed to know everything and put them in a riddle.)
By the way, Bethany can't figure out the difference between a vaccine and a cure. The idea keeps switching back and forth.
Susan, the fake daughter, is actually the child of a powerful US senator who lets her 10 years old daughter travels alone to Paris with a maniacal, money/power mad physicist so she can watch him commit mass murder on the entire country of Germany. It just happened that he killed most of the world. Oh yes, he spread the virus through a quantum fusion generator. Yep. It makes perfect sense.
I started talking to myself a lot while reading this book. The main phrases were: really? seriously? how stupid! and fail! -
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Misty. She lived in a normal house, with normal parents and a brother who (for dramatic purposes) was also normal. Misty on the other hand was NOT normal. See, Misty looked like a girl, was forced to dress like a girl, and from time to time was even forced to do girly things (to appease her mother.) But this was not the REAL Misty. See…Misty was obscure. She like to do boy things, read boy books, stay up until 3 am watching contraband horror flicks on her parents ridiculously tiny TV. Then, one day Misty was introduced to her savior. A man that made her feel normal, socially excepted and ironically…alive. That man’s name was George Romero. The zombie King. Misty instantly fell in love and then…. Oh, forget it… you know where this is going. I love zombies and this is a zombie book…yada yada.
“The City of Lights is crawling with the undead who care nothing for love or wine and are hell-bent on getting the one thing they want – your brains. The living have only one hope – Bethany Nitshimi who carries with her an encrypted file containing the key to the cure. Unfortunately Bethany is battling the undead, the apocalypse, and a group who will stop at nothing to keep her from curing the plague.”
NOTE: My Zombie My picks up where I Zombie I left off and heads into Paris. Bethany’s gang of heroes has picked up a few more strays and mankind is getting dangerously close to the end. As Bethany battles the zombie horde she must crack the file, get the cure, and save the human race, before we are just meat for the beasts.
Well, we all know that I could talk about zombies for days. So instead of boring all of you (<–do you see that…I didn’t say y’all) into your own personal zombie like stooper, how about I just tell you the ups and the downs of “My Zombie My.”
Bad first.
There were no definitive chapters in this book. (Say what??) That’s right…this heeping helping of zombie loving goodness was just that. 1 big fat heaping helping. There were no pauses for the potty. No intermissions for emergency gummy bear breaks and…in case you are a person whose diet consist of 85% coffee (*cough*) there was no damn time for that either. For me (if I’m honest) this wasn’t really that big of an issue, but I am also not your average reader, (as in causal) I don’t read a chapter or 2 before turning out the lights and hitting the hay. I sit, and read. The whole book. For everyone else though…Wallen might have considered using some of Bethany’s blog entries as stopping/starting points.
Also, unlike in the first novel (I Zombie I) Bethany’s internal dialogue got a little flouncy (hmm…not so sure that’s a word.) For instance: In the first novel, Jacob keeps a journal of what is happening (both to himself and the world around him.) While his entries were just as lengthy as Bethany’s blog entries, her’s seemed to take on a more self-deprecating tone. Now…this would have been 100% a-0-k with me IF Wallen (ok, that just sounds weird…I’m gonna call him Jack) had kept the internal diatribe to just that…her blog entries, instead…a few short paragraphs AFTER the blog entry her minor moments of instability (though completely understandable) would start up again, and cause Jack to repeat himself, (Hello deja’ vu.)
So, what about the good?
Well let me first re-assure you that despite my harsh ramblings in the two previous paragraphs, this book is an absolute winner for anyone whole loves a good cult/zombie/I-am-woman-hear-me-roar book. There is enough comedic relief to keep you from taking the book TOO seriously, but at the same time…there is just as much emotional torture to keep you invested in the characters and their fate, (and boy…were there a lot of characters.)
The most impressive part for me however was not Jack stellar job at describing zombies that eat their own brains, or the way he can twist a story so much you aren’t even sure you can trust yourself, or even how he has the genius to create an “outside” perspective through radio show called (straight-forward enough) “Zombie Radio.” Nope…Jack’s most impressive feat in this entire book was his ability to keep the technology talk from sounding like a “Hacking For Dummies” learners manual. With Bethany’s main duty being “hacking” this whole angle could have very easily come back to bite Jack in the ass. Instead, he chose to give just enough info to sound convincing (and knowledgable) without making me drool on my kindle.
Do I think this installment of the “I Zombie” club was a good as the last? No…but it definitely wasn’t a slacker, and if the ending bares any weight to the future of this series; the next book is going to be one hell of a wild ride.
Zombie lovers unite, and for God’s sake…grab this book!
Happy Reading my fellow Kindle-ites and remember: I love all of you, but if Moaners start roaming the Earth…ya’ll better hope you can run faster than me. -
The cream of the zombie crop!
My Zombie My is book two of the series and it takes up where I Zombie I leaves off. If you haven’t read the first book of this trilogy, you’re going to need it, plain and simple. I also recommend that you acquire the third book as well because I guarantee you will want it when you’ve finished reading this one.
A band of highly resourceful survivors find themselves facing horrors unlike anything the world (or the average zombie fan) has ever seen. Bethany, the lead female character from the first book finds herself thrown into the role of leader in this next leg of the journey.
Faced with protecting her small group against the overwhelming odds of a world swarming with flesh-eating monsters, she takes on the enormous task of saving what remains of the human race. Bethany is a dynamic heroine with a brilliant mind and powerful blend of courage and humanity necessary to survive and succeed in the nightmare that the world has become. As she learns the horrifying secrets behind the virus that has decimated humanity, a threat even more menacing than the zombies emerges.
I jumped into this book feet first, immediately after finishing the first one because this breathtaking story simply couldn’t wait. Jack Wallen is a brilliant writer who holds nothing back. The suspense that began with the first book continues to build with non-stop action and frightening revelations that weave an increasingly intricate tapestry of a tale. Just when you think you know how the plot is going to go, the author adds yet another exciting twist. And of course, there are zombies. Lots of them, and ones more terrifying than you could imagine. This trilogy is truly the best of the best – the cream of the zombie crop! -
Well, afther giving I Zombie only 4 stars(not because it was not great, only because ***spolier*** Jacob getts killed at the end) i must redeem myself and ofer a five star Review.
Well, this book takes true highs and lows and like the first one you feel the heartbeat of the MC in your verry own chest. This time Bethany, a world known hacker, pregnant with Jacobs child is the leader of a interesting group of misfits. Nobody is what he seams to be. Trust nobody, still keep your faith in good and humanithy. Well, that is a hard task to acomplish.
Still, this book is very diferent from others of the same genre, and if you did not picked the first one up yeat, you should. However, ist a great read even if you did not read I Zombie, I. It is verry real and honest somehow, there are moments when i asked myself what would i do? How much of my own safety would i risk for some People that id did not knew a few days ago but , People that became my Family. In a world full of moaners and screamers, full of lies and decief ,how can you stay still and not act, not trie to find salvation if there is anny.
Go read the book, ist awesome!
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After reading I Zombie I, I had to read this next book in the series! I have to admit it was sad for me to read since there was someone very important missing from this one. But this book was definitely an enjoyable read as well with tons of zombie action. Jack Wallen is definitely not afraid to kill off characters in often surprising ways. But hey, if this were to really happen, anyone is at risk and survival is a rare commodity. Bethany is a likeable heroine who you will root for as she fights off zombies and is threatened by the evil that is the cause of the undeadly virus being unleashed. Once I was finished with this book, I had to immediately download the following one to see what was going to happen!
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Another editing project is now a published book, available on Amazon. My Zombie My is the second book in the trilogy by Goodreads author Jack Wallen. The first book, I Zombie I, is available as a free download on Amazon and Smashwords. Get that one, and continue the saga with this!
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This book continues to deliver fast paced adventure that will keep you at the edge of your seat. Bethany is AMAZING. She can do it all! So much pressure on her shoulders. Also we get introduced to Jean, Gunther and a handful of other interesting subjects. Moaners, screamers, what a mess! Booo to Zero Day Collective and yay for this amazing adventure.
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The concept continues to be interesting, but the constant use of curse words is becoming beyond irritating, and the characters are frustrating idiots. Also, the format makes it difficult to tell what's published on the blog of the main character and what isn't, and, quite frankly, if she's publishing everything on her blog, she's a bigger idiot than I already consider her to be, and lucky things didn't go even worse than they actually did; at least the journal of the main character in the previous book was kept private until after the events, where as the blog is supposed to be being published and made available in realtime, so to speak, which makes writing a lot of what she appears to be writing on it stupidly dangerous given the circumstances she and the others are in.
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I was really disappointed by this book. There were some things that made everyone in the book TSTL. Why would you go to a completely different floor to shower when you know that the place you've taken shelter in isn't secure? There's a strange guy running around but you decide to not tell everyone in the group about him. The one that really got me though was were a character supposedly died but earlier in the book that character left with everyone else.
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This 2nd book in the I Zombie I series had me on a emotional roller coaster! I loved it!! This is one of the few Zombie books that have made me laugh,( Zombie Radio ), Made me cry ( no spoilers), and made my heart race like I'd run a marathon!! Can't wait to read book 3!!!!
