Customer Reviews

Survive: The New Zed Order: Book One

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is one of the two best books I have read in this genre! This is more than a zombie book. This is a suvival book with heart, compassion and grit. You will know the characters and you will love them. You will witness their struggles, and thir triumphs and you will root for them with your heart. This is not an opinion that was solicited and it is not crap that I am writing to just sound cool. I absolutely think this novel was terrific. This book is smart, accurate and well done. I will read any other fiction that comes from this author Todd Sprague.

I loved World War Z, enjoyed Day by Day Armageddon and a number of other Zombie books. In my opinion, this book is not particularly well-written and the story is just not very creative or interesting.

As with almost every book i have read put out By Permuted Press, NEW ZED ORDER: SURVIVE is just what i exspected. A wonderfully writen book of horror and Human strength. The story is fast paced and full of emotion. Every Charecter feels real and pulls you in for more. Every time i feel that Zombie stories are about to die out......BAM!!! a new twist to the ever growing Living Dead Genre hits hard and fast. I for one look forward to more from this story line. Waitting with eagerness for the next book!

I got this book for kindle over a year ago, and LOVED it, when I saw this I thought maybe the author had finally followed up with a second in this series, alas no, he's just wanting more money for the first one. Still, if you want a good read, with a story line that grips you and makes sense, this is it, Mr Sprague, PLEASE hurry up and continue this story!!!

I agree with the other reviewers.....this book just left me wanting more. The story seemed shallow, and could have used more depth. There are simply way too many characters to keep track of everyone. The description of the main character gets nauseating at times......everything revolves around how big and tough he his, how great of a shot he is, how smart, blah blah. Little more then a captain america character. The story itself is just too perfect, and not very believable (in the realm of zombie books). You're not going to simply waltz into a national guard depot and drive out with hummers, duece and a halves, hundreds of rifles, tens of thousands of rounds of ammo, and years worth of MREs.

It seems to be written with more detail on acquiring enough firepower to outfit a regiment then it does the story of a zombie novel. The 'family' aspect of it seems half-assed thrown into the mix, trying to create a warm and mushy feeling with capt. america as the ultimate husband and eventual patriarch.

Just as the story starts going somewhere, with ghosts, paramilitary operations, etc, the book ends. Yes he's working on book 2, but come on. Most of the story is simply a best case scenario, where nearly everything works out perfectly the first time. All in all, it left me wanting more depth to sink my teeth into. I'm as big of a gun nut as anyone else, but I want a real STORY when I read a book, not just a telling of capt. america taking over new england himself.

Overall not too bad a zombie read. The dialogue is incredibly stilted at times (I found myself asking what husband and wife actually talk this way), the author is an ex-police, private investigator from Vermont and lo and behold the hero is an ex-police, private investigator from Vermont. I have no problem with this, authors often use a version of themselves as protagonists in books but this guy is just too perfect with a just too perfect wife and just too perfect survivialist tendencies.

The gun-love here borders on fetishism. I am a gun owner and have an extensive collection, but compared to this guy I am a hippie-pacifist. This guy has a tremendous number of rifles, pistols, shotguns, assault weapons (of all kinds of makes, models and calibers)and thousands of rounds of ammuntition and this is before the zombie outbreak. Yes the testosterone runs high here, the men shoot, the women shoot, the children shoot and everybody owns at least a couple of guns (hell guns seem to be the favorite pre-zombie outbreak gift for these people.) Look I love guns too but this is too much, even for me.

There is a subplot about some secret paramilitary organization (the main character borders on being in some kind of militia movement) which is never really fleshed out. There is a subplot about ghosts, which is never really fleshed out and towards the end of the book we come across a talking zombie which nobody feels the need to comment on or discuss and is never really fleshed out (really you suddenly come across a zombie that seems to be leading other zombies and can talk but we just let that go like it happens all the time?)

Things tend to go pretty well for these survivors. They find warehouses full of food and equipment and a National Guard Armory with, you guessed it, even more weapons (of a variety I find very hard to imagine the Vermont National Guard would have stockpiled.)

Like I said not a bad book for the zombie genre but nothing particularly special either.

Liked the new plot twists, stands out from other zombie survival books. This book had me so interested I read it in 3 days.

I liked this book. I like the characters and felt I had been given enough of the over arching conspiracy to go on. I found the main chaacrters likeable, and enjoyed that some were able to change and grow. Something you don't always see in these book. I am looking forward to what comes next.

Wow, This book is what you are looking for. I find it difficult to understand how people can be so mean in their reviews of some of the work that they read.
I found this book to be top notch. There are books out there that people put on a pedestal, and if the next book isn't the same thing, well then they bash the next one that they read.
What you find in this book is a great story, and it is set up for a great follow on story. I cannot wait for book 2, 3, and hopefully many more to come from this great writer. I will not give it away, what I will say is that it is worth the money.
This book is a fast and good read.
I also have a book on here, and I know how it feels to get bashed by some, and praised by others, Mr. Sprague has done something right to have been picked up by the best firm that puts Zombie books out on the market, and if you don't believe that, well then you are not reading the other great books that are out there.
I would rate this writer along with Recht, Bourne, Tufo, Talluto, Cook, Dee, and DiLouie. So if you read Zombie literature, that is the who's who of what is out there. This book belongs there, and you should give it a shot.

G.R. Mountjoy

This is an entertaining contribution to the incredible amount of zombie yarns recently written. It is fairly standard with a couple of twists and turns that keep it interesting. It is not without flaws: the lead character's father dies and the next morning he has moved on even cracking jokes, the survivors are amazingly organized given the pace of undead dominance, there is no nuance or suspense just a great deal of gross-out detail, and there are too many characters to care for any of them. As well, there are cliffhangers including an unexplored connection to a benevolent militia, sophisticated zombies, and U.S. military hijinks which are set-ups for a sequel.

The apocalyptic-zombie genre is incredibly interesting. It is easy to see, if such an event were to occur, how quickly things may fall apart as a great deal of our population have become fatted suburban cattle. And if you have ever been claustrophobic in a large crowd - that is a key part of the terror associated with zombies - a feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed. One persistent flaw in these books are the one-dimensional archetypes so often repeated which would not accurately reflect the complex reactions survivors would demonstrate.