After Twilight: Walking with the Dead | Travis Adkins

After Twilight: Walking with the Dead | Travis Adkins | A Superb Sequel of Shamblers and Such!

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	After Twilight: Walking with the Dead Travis Adkins Permuted Press, 2008 - 284 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

At the start of the apocalypse, a small resort town on the coast of Rhode Island fortified itself to withstand the millions of flesh-eating zombies conquering the world. With its high walls and self-contained power plant, Eastpointe was a safe haven for the lucky few who managed to arrive.

Trained specifically to outmaneuver the undead, Black Berets performed scavenging missions in outlying towns in order to stock Eastpointe with materials vital for long-term survival. But the town leaders took the Black Berets for granted, on a whim sending them out into the cannibalistic wilderness. Most did not survive.

Now the most cunning, most brutal, most efficient Black Beret will return to Eastpointe after narrowly surviving the doomed mission and unleash his anger upon the town in one bloody night of retribution.

After twilight, when the morning comes and the sun rises, will anyone be left alive?

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Warning! You will lose sleep!

Reading this book can be dangerous to pick up! Losing sleep and arriving late for work are possible consequences. Both of these things happened to me while reading this book. I couldn't put it down. My only complaint/concern is how long will we have to wait for the third book?

A Superb Sequel of Shamblers and Such!

Travis Adkins adds to his mesmorizing account of the zompocalypse with "After Twilight: Walking with the Dead". Have the survivors become too complacient in feeling safe? You bet yer undead butt they have ... And BOY HOWDY are they going to pay for it.

Adkins has his chops down in his descriptive abilities and story flows as does the carnage this book portrays. This is just an excellent addition to the "Twilight" series of zombie goodness.

Buy your copy today!!

Doc

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Twilight shifts to darkness

Travis Adkins continues the saga of the Black Berets that inhabit Eastpointe, one of the last human outposts in America after the undead apocalypse of five years previous. The story carries forward from where it left off, with Courtney and Leon stuck on top of a building in a town nearby after dealing with Dr. Aaron Dane, who had created a group of uber zombies encased in armor. With most of their fellow Black Berets dead back on the cruise ship that Dr. Dane had been floating around on and creating his army of super zombies, they need to return to Eastpointe. They do not realize that another one of the Berets, Vaughn Winters, the most instable of the lot, has also survived, and has returned to Eastpointe, dragging an entire city of the dead behind him as he escapes.
The plot here is pretty straight forward: we discover that Vaughn has been working for the Odd Fellows, the group of old men in Eastpointe who run things behind the scenes. They have worked hard to insure that no one knows of the other human settlements still out there, believing that the populous will be more manageable if they believe they are the last living souls on the planet. Vaughn, who was unstable to begin with, becomes unhinged after facing off against Dr. Dane and his metal misfits and when he returns to Eastpointe and deals with the obsessive Odd Fellows, who crave control over the cure Dr. Dane claims he had in his possession on the ship, quickly unravels and decides that Eastpointe and everyone who has lived in relative comfort for five years needs to suffer and die. With thousands of zombies now scratching at the walls, he has the tools he needs to cause their distruction.

Travis Adkins has produced a solid follow up to his first book, Twilight of the Dead. The writing style is even and he does a good job of describing the gore and violence that we zombie fans crave. While this story does not really spend much time with our main character of the first book, Courtney, it does develop a good deal more depth with the characters Leon and Tyrell, both introduced but not detailed extensively in the first book. The pace of the action is quick here, with the story covering a little over a day. We are given a few flashbacks to provide us with a background on Vaughn, the disgruntled and disturbed Black Beret who wants to see the whole world burn and eaten.

Overall, the story is entertaining but our villain lacks quite a bit in my humble estimation. It is only my opinion and perhaps others will feel differently but I felt that Vaughn was not too impressive as the bad guy. His efforts at smug superiority to everyone around him comes off as trite and insignificant. He is a wanna be metal head who was on track to becoming the next big thing in music when the apocalypse hit. He lost his sister, who he has, shall we say, a very personal relationship with, and has felt like he has been walking with the dead ever since. When he fails to outwit or outsmart someone he instead tries to menace and threaten them but he comes off as just a self absorbed goth with a chip on his shoulder.
Somehow, he is the one Black Beret who the Odd Fellows, the secretive leaders of Eastpointe, choose to be their primary connection amongst those that go out and procure needed supplies. So when they go out on procurement runs, he secretely collects things for them and more importantly, keeps other things hidden that they do not want the community to find. It just struck me as odd that he would be the choice of such a group of old men-the "devil worshipping" rocker with the vampiric complextion and long black hair with the worst attitude of anyone in Eastpointe. To me it felt like a stretch that they would trust someone like that with anything, let alone all their closely held secrets.

But enough of my criticism of Vaughn. While I did not buy into the menace and smug superiority of this bad guy, I could appreciate the development of the rest of the characters here. Vaughn's descent into darkness moves the plot along, carrying things forward and getting us to the meat of the story, with the undead once again clashing with the living as more and more of the human race is diminished and devoured.

I do enjoy the writing style that Travis Adkins has and though I might feel that his villains in both his previous book (Dr. Dane) and in this novel lacked something, I think he has done a solid job with these two novels. If you enjoy zombie fiction then this is certainly one to take a look at, along with its predecessor. I look forward to the third installment, Exodus, when it comes out next. Courtney, Leon, and Tyrell are characters I have grown interested in and I am curious where their journey will take them next.

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Twilight gets amped up!

After Twilight: Walking with the Dead picks up where Twilight left off. Courtney and Leon are trapped on the roof. They are slowly dehydrating and waiting to see if Leon will change or if Dr. Dane's serum will work. Meanwhile Vaughn deals with his own demons as he struggles to recover from some serious throat damage and flashes back to his past where his sister, the only person that ever meant anything to him, haunts his memories. As zombies stack up against the walls Eastpointe its residents carry on in unknowing bliss as they prepare to celebrate a 4th of July that they will never forget.

Once again Travis Adkins has written a story full of violence, gore and horror that will leave the reader on the edge of their seat wanting more. I could actually feel my heart racing as Ty and company fought off zombies while trying to get to the second floor of the sheriff's station. The zombies aren't the only creatures to fear in this story. Vaughn quickly becomes the primary villain as he looses it and decides that it's time for Eastpointe to end along with the rest of the human race.

After Twilight: Walking with the Dead is a fast pace and excellent story that I would recommend to anyone who loves horror and it is almost a necessary add to anyone who collects stories of zombie fiction.

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So far so good

I loved the first one, I am so far enjoying this book! Plus finding out there is more then meets the eye! I personely left it home so i don't read it quickly.

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