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Flesh Eaters
Written by Joe McKinney
Narrated by Todd McLaren
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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They rise...
Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge from plague-ridden waters. Dead. Rotting. Hungry. And as human survivors scramble to their rooftops for safety, the zombie hordes circle like sharks. The ultimate killing machines.
They feed...
Houston is quarantined to halt the spread of the zombie plague. Anyone trying to escape is shot on sight-living and dead. Emergency Ops sergeant Eleanor Norton has her work cut out for her. Salvaging boats and gathering explosives, Eleanor and her team struggle to maintain order. But when civilization finally breaks down, the feeding frenzy begins.
They multiply...
Biting, gnawing, feasting-but always craving more-the flesh-eaters increase their ranks every hour. With doomsday looming, Eleanor must focus on the people she loves-her husband and daughter-and a band of other survivors adrift in zombie-infested waters. If she can't bring them into the quarantine zone, they're all dead meat.
Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge from plague-ridden waters. Dead. Rotting. Hungry. And as human survivors scramble to their rooftops for safety, the zombie hordes circle like sharks. The ultimate killing machines.
They feed...
Houston is quarantined to halt the spread of the zombie plague. Anyone trying to escape is shot on sight-living and dead. Emergency Ops sergeant Eleanor Norton has her work cut out for her. Salvaging boats and gathering explosives, Eleanor and her team struggle to maintain order. But when civilization finally breaks down, the feeding frenzy begins.
They multiply...
Biting, gnawing, feasting-but always craving more-the flesh-eaters increase their ranks every hour. With doomsday looming, Eleanor must focus on the people she loves-her husband and daughter-and a band of other survivors adrift in zombie-infested waters. If she can't bring them into the quarantine zone, they're all dead meat.
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Reviews for Flesh Eaters
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oof. This one is not his best in the series. The characters are all unlikable and it took me forever to get through this one because it was just so boring. It author writes more and more like a boomer who loves cops too much and thinks younger people are the worst. Hopefully the next in the series isn't full of cops and old men who are too tough fantasies. Also, the narrator is hard to listen to with his inconsistent accents and bad voice work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What's more fun that a couple of catagory 5 hurricanes, followed by zombie infestation and no help from the government? I was looking for something to hold me over while waiting for the next season of walking dead to start, when I lucked into this fast paced action packed zombie tale. I couldn't put it down.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flesh Eaters is the third book in the Dead World series, however it's actually a prequel to the first two books. Once you get your head around that it's quite an enjoyable tale of scheming and disaster as in the midst of Houston being devastated by a storm and a mystery virus rapidly spreading a police officer and his family decide to rob a evacuated bank.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney is the third volume in his Dead World series that features zombie-like creatures. Although each book is a separate story that can stand on it’s own, the origin of these creatures is the same in each book. This third book takes us back to the beginning. Southern Texas has been hit with three super-sized hurricanes in a row which has devastated the area and ruined the city of Huston beyond recovery. We follow the survivors of these storms as they scramble for safety from the storm surge that is covering the land. From the soup of ruined buildings and vehicles, dead animals, pollution, seawater and an assortment of unknown chemicals there arises a deadly virus that transforms humans into zombie like creatures that crave flesh. The story concentrates on one group of survivors as they try to escape these zombie-infested waters, but is their government willing to allow evacuation?Flesh Eaters is a page turning thrill ride that includes all the expected zombie survival tricks presented in a straight out, well-written story with characters that are quite believable in their desperation. If you like zombie stories then you owe it to yourself to check out Joe McKinney’s books.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Was 2011 a bad year for the horror novel? I’ve yet to read any of the nominees for the 2012 Bram Stoker Award for best novel except Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney, the winner, and I find myself puzzled. Was this really the best the year had to offer? It’s a competent enough zombie novel, but nothing special. Flesh Eaters tells the story of the loss of Houston, Texas, to a close series of tropical storms, one after another hitting the city until it has essentially become part of the Gulf of Mexico. As was the case with Hurricane Katrina and the tragedy of New Orleans in 2005, Houston is not effectively evacuated, and is largely cut off from the rest of civilization in the aftermath of the storms. This isolation becomes considerably more pronounced when the combination of filthy conditions, flooding by heavily polluted water, and the proximity of thousands of people gives rise to a new disease. This disease does not cause the dead to walk, but it does cause those infected to lose most of their brain function and to seek to eat human flesh — in other words, they become zombies. In inhibiting brain function, the disease also makes the zombies almost immune to injury except for the destruction of the brain, most easily by a shot to the head. The story told in this novel focuses on Eleanor Norton, a police officer involved with the portion of the Houston police force changed with handling emergency conditions — precisely like severe storms. Norton is intent on ensuring the survival of her husband and her nearly-teenage daughter, both of whom do not have quite her level of courage and fortitude. Jim and Madison have a great deal of difficulty maintaining their home after the first and second storms, when they are housebound. But things get worse after the third storm tears them from their home and sets them afloat in a rowboat on filthy water filled with corpses. The other major character in this novel is Captain Mark Shaw, leader of the emergency division of the Houston police force. Shaw is a dedicated officer, one for whom honor trumps all, and he is devastated by his inability to ensure the safety of Houston’s residents. He is loath to report to his superiors outside Houston that zombies have begun to roam the streets, knowing that the news will cause those outside Houston to make it difficult for survivors to escape the ruined city. And despite his honor, he sees an opportunity in this horrible situation in the form of a submerged bank vault and the ready availability, purely by accident, of some underwater explosives. There are no surprises here. This novel follows the pattern of every disaster movie you’ve ever seen, with the situation getting increasingly worse, the good mostly surviving and the bad pretty much universally getting their comeuppance. Because the novel is predictable, there is little tension in it. I would probably have ceased reading it halfway through if it weren’t that I knew it had won the Stoker; I kept expecting something truly interesting to emerge, but nothing ever did. Perhaps the problem is that Flesh Eaters is the third book in a quartet; perhaps the Stoker was awarded to McKinney as a way of honoring the entire project, instead of just this single novel. I cannot recommend Flesh Eaters as a good read standing on its own, however, and am not sufficiently impressed to pick up the two earlier books, Dead City and Apocalypse of the Dead, or the forthcoming The Zombie King. I’m disappointed.