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  • Zombie Rules: Zombie Rules, Book 1

  • By: David Achord
  • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
  • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (188 ratings)
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Summary

Rick, an aging Vietnam veteran, alcoholic, and prepper, convinces Zach Gunderson that the apocalypse is on the horizon. The two of them take refuge at a remote farm. As the zombie plague rages, they face a terrifying fight for survival. They soon learn, however, that the walking dead are not the only monsters.

©2013 David Achord (P)2015 Tantor

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Great listen

Well worth buying, really enjoyed it, can't wait to get next one in the series.
I thoroughly recommend this book.

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Don't waste your money!!

I am an avid fan of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead and other post-apocalyptic novels so was really looking forward to this book. What a disappointment!! In fact, don't waste your money. It lacks any sense of drama in the situation whatsoever. In fact the narrator might as well be describing a dreary Sunday afternoon drive in the countryside. I also agree with one of the earlier reviews. The writer's constant references to sex and to women's bodies really begins to irritate, and actually becomes a bit disgusting in the end. There is one description, the killing of their first zombie where the two main protagonists proceed to describe the zombie's body and her breasts! Not nice at all.
A completely lost opportunity!

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A great first book

This is s great first book. Anyone with an interest in zombies, or just a well written book with interesting characters, will love this book. The type of book where you will immediately go "I want to get book two."

Compliments to the narrator for brining the characters to life.

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An interesting take on the concept, but a juvenile and unrealistic one.

I love zombie fiction, and I love it even more when it’s made more ‘realistic’ through background information and the character development due to the circumstances they find themselves in. This book had such great promise from the beginning but fell far short in my opinion.

Every other chapter feels like a misogynistic indictment of the world, with so many references to breasts and sexual fantasies that it really detracts from the serious nature of the story. I understand that the main character is a young man who no doubt would have these urges, but when every woman is summed almost immediately as a potential sexual object, and every other male is a supposed rapist or pervert, it cheapens their characters and drops the main character down quite a few points for having to go to that place. It felt cringe-worthy, and just unnecessary at every point.

Zack is a very unrealistic character too, going from a timid kid to a seasoned killer who actually murders someone without needing to do so before the outbreak even occurs. There would be a much steeper learning curve than described in the book, yet Zack is able to shoot people “right between the eyes” from dramatic distances multiple times, and never seems to come to terms with the fact he’s a murderer. His know-it-all attitude gets boring very fast too, and I imagine if I came across a child who corrected me on everything, or had this inane amount of trivia on the most obscure things that he has to spout constantly, I would be tempted to serve him up to the undead.

It feels like the author may have been a bullied school kid, someone who was looked over by women in his life, and is taking it out on the world with contrived characters who can’t handle themselves or even act like normal human beings until the ‘hero’ swoops in and saves the day. Every woman is either an opportunist, or a slut, and it feels like Zack’s condemnation of them is all that is supposed to matter, without any real indication as to why they’re supposedly this way, or why any strong and independent women have survived the outbreak. Every man he comes across, apart from the ones he wants to keep around as father figures, is a threat and a creep which gets tiring fast. Nobody seems to be self sufficient until a 16 year old nerd comes along and saves their skin. There’s also many tones of racism in the descriptions of characters of colour, and as a mixed race man I found that exhausting and disappointing, let alone close minded.

I would have loved this story to have had much more depth, realism and grit, but this was clearly written for those with similar experiences in their early lives, and without having a jaded view of humanity it becomes a chore to go through. The narrator did a good job of keeping the characters separate and free flowing, but there’s only so much polish you can apply to a turd.

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Creepy, not in a good way

I can't believe the good reviews this has got, the author's creepy obsession with young teenage girls is made even worse by the fact that he's a middle aged man (google him), I assumed this was written by a frustrated teenager. Unless you're a misogynist or a teenage boy I would avoid at all costs.

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Ticks almost all the zombie novel boxes..

Good, well laid out concept which rolls along at a great pace. This is the first book of a series and I'll be straight onto the second. Well narrated and produced...

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extremely good read

Excellent description, excellent description of caracters personalities. Very good read.
Highly recommended. The tell of Zah working hard to build a community in Zombie word and beeing crush by guverment forces

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it was ok

Good premise however it clearly came through that the author did not have much of an idea about women, slightly misogynistic and repetitive, will give the rest of the series a miss.

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Decent but a strange teenager

Generally a fun romp and the story plays out smoothly enough but the main character is somehow the leader of everyone he comes into contact with, just weired how people blindly follow his arrogant posturing. Overall decent though.

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puerile and derivative

Take a bit of Deliverance, mix in Zombieland, add a touch of American Pie, and top that off with some misogynistic objectification and you would be fine to skip this book.
In my experience, first person narrative usually conveys some degree of authorial autobiography. If that holds true in this book then the author clearly thinks he was some kind of child protegy left with a need to demonstrate his brilliance to all the people who obviously never seemed to notice his genius. Through this book our protagonist is allowed to assert his intellectual superiority by killing everyone who ever wronged him.
If you think women are only significant for their mammaries, then you're in the right place. If you enjoy a story in which every one dimensional woman encountered is hoping to hop in bed with the main character, then you'll be happy to know that this book is currently part of the Plus Catalogue. If you want clumsy attempts at confronting race in the apocalypse, you're in for a treat since this moment may only be slightly less cringe than the use of the word cunnilingus by our "hero."
I'm vaguely familiar with the author's bio after a Google search and was shocked to discover that this sophomoric attempt was not actually written by a high school sophomore, but despite his age, I am still not convinced that David Achord isn't an incel writing about his fantasy of physical contact he could never experience in reality.
Oh, and once in a while a pointless and unthreatening zombie makes a brief appearance.

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