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Thunder and Ashes (The Morningstar Strain)
by: Z.A. Recht

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781934861011
ISBN: 1934861014
Label: Permuted Press
Manufacturer: Permuted Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: April 21, 2008
Publisher: Permuted Press
Sales Rank: 8931
Studio: Permuted Press

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Product Description:
A lot can change in three months: wars can be decided, nations can be forged... or entire species can be brought to the brink of annihilation. The Morningstar Virus, an incredibly virulent disease, has swept the face of the planet, infecting billions. Its hosts rampage, attacking anything that remains uninfected. Even death can't stop the virus-its victims as cannibalistic shamblers. Scattered across the world, embattled groups have persevered. For some, surviving is the pinnacle of achievement. Others hoard goods and weapons. And still others leverage power over the remnants of humanity in the form of a mysterious cure for Morningstar. Francis Sherman and Anna Demilio want only a vaccine, but to find it, they must cross a countryside in ruins, dodging not only the infected, but also the lawless living. The bulk of the storm has passed over the world, leaving echoing thunder and softly drifting ashes. But for the survivors, the peril remains, and the search for a cure is just beginning...

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- Exciting Read
Really good sequal to the first book. Author really sicks to the rules he set up in the first book. The story ties everything together in the end. I cannot wait for the next installment.

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- Sequel rocked
All I can say that this is a great addition to the story and I can't wait for the third!

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- More action, more suspense, more tension - real improvement!
I was a bit lukewarm upon completing my reading of Recht's Plague of the Dead. It now looks like that Recht has learnt -an awful lot- from the shortcuts of its prequel... Unbelievable! The type of book you can't put down easily, in spite of its flaws. Yes, the scientific explanations are still weak, bordering on naive. Yes, some of the characters' behavior is sometimes stereotypical (Krueger, Mason, Thomas or Sherman). Yes, the end of the story is quite predictable. Yes, there are still some pretty upsetting typos... But boy, ain't the tempo of the whole story great!! The story has the reader follow three separate groups of survivors, all motivated by the same objective: find the place where they think they might be able to come up with a vaccine to fight off the infection.

The balance of gore Vs action is perfect. The idea of coming up with an isolated haven of safety is perfectly rendered. The action ... Read More

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- Permuted Press is to blame
I finished Thunder and Ashes a while back and I've struggled since then with just how exactly I felt about it. I won't dive too deeply into a synopsis because others have done so elsewhere and the story is a basically just the continuing struggles of the two different groups from the last book trying to survive in a zombie infested world.

So, was it well done?

eh...Not really, but at the same time, it wasn't terrible. So where did it fail? Where was the breakdown? Where does the fault lie?

The easy answer is the author, but I don't think that is entirely fair.

Because while yes, Thunder and Ashes is more than a bit amateurish, make no mistake on that and populated by characters that are mostly wooden and interchangeable (the pure transparency of the "red shirt" minor characters is dumbfounding, they almost cross the line into self-parody), none of it is bad... ... Read More

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