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Zero City (Deathlands Series)

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This new and exciting new novel takes Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivialists to a jump into a ghost town, haunted by some very interesting creatures that resemble some kind of enormous bats. These mutie creatures only come out at night and are extremely fast and deadly. This new writer to me does a wonderful job in keeping with the characters IN CHARACTER. The pace is swift and action scenes are very well done. Even the writers flying creatures are somewhat a story unto themselves instead of just your run-of-the-mill mindless creatures. The writer gives them depth and makes you wonder just where they came from - mutated or man-made? These mysterious monsters attack Ryan and his band in the haunted ruins of Zero City, leaving Ryan's son, Dean, wounded and near death. This forces the group to split up and go into a nearby ville ruled by a mad baron that may be some kind of cousin to Krysty Wroth. Now this is what sparks interest in the baron when he see's the similarities between himself and Krysty. For me, this was the best part of the book when Ryan and Krysty go alone into this strange ville and Krysty is taken captive. The writer is at his best in this part of the novel and the action scenes are some of the best I have read in this awesome series. The unspoken communication between Ryan and Krysty is very well done, and I am always a sucker when these two gell and have a little adventure together without the group constantly being there. The baron makes fertilizer out of the people that screw up in the ville and Charleston Heston aint around to save the day. But Ryan Cawdor is! This latest from the great story-telling writers of Gold Eagle is a very fun and exciting read for the hardcore DEATHLANDS fans. I am such a fan and I want to extend my thanks to Gold Eagle books and the creative minds at work in this series for keeping up the great work and thank you for not giving up in this awesome series. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This installment of DL was very refreshing in the aspect of giving the reader a glimps into the seperate personality of each of our seven characters. The author who wrote this installment [Under the pseudonym of James Axler], style tends to be different than what is the typical style of DeathLands writing. This has been a bone of contention [yes even I have rebelled against this style] for the consistancy aspect with some DL fans, but his creative ablity overall has never been called into question.

Minimally, there are some discrepancies with past facts established in prior books. There are consistancy discrepancies such as Krysty not 'sensing' any danger initially then she 'senses' something later in the book, and over all individual personal qualities but it is not as distracting from the story.

In Zero City, we finally see Ryan in the full meaning of being a father over a survivalist when his young son Dean is at death's door. We finally see Mildred [who is my absolute favorite character!] in her primary role as a Doctor and not using her Olympic sharpshooting prowess as her only value in the group.

The introduction of a possible genetic link to Krysty introduces a possiblity that there are other factors in our survivalist lives then just the struggle to survive one fight to another.

I look forward to the next installment.

I would like to say first that the book dealer sent this book very quickly . I ordered it on the 14th and recived the book confermation it was on the way the 15th and on the 16th it arrived. With the purchase of this book my friend now has the complet set of books and he really enjoys readign this series of books. He is looking forward to the next book due out in march 2003.

as a fan of the deathlands series, Zero city was a good read, however I've started to notice a sort of slopines creeping into Mr. Axlers writing. I realize that we're dealing with fantesy here, but stricter attention needs to be paid to realistic "shelf lives" of items such as fuel, food and medical supplies, for me ,better accuracy in this department matters greatly to my enjoyment of the book. Also, references to characters,and situations in previous books is becoming less and less. Having read all the Deathlands books, I thought this gave contunity to the whole series. On a final note, I thought the reckless effort to recover the bag of medical supplies was out of character for the usually caucious Cawdor band. Having said that,I still enjoyed the book, and as a true Deathlands fan,await the next book.