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The year 2020 was a good one for the walking dead.
The initial reports of a mysterious plague reanimating corpses caused unbridled chaos and as the world descended into hell, nations turned on each other in the battle to survive.
Europe is devastated. The remnants of NATO managed to create safe zones within cities that still had the protection of medieval built stonewalls. Once again, these ancient bastions were a sanctuary from invaders, keeping back the dead legions.
The rest of the continent was a dead zone – populated by hundreds of millions of walking corpses.
The medieval fortress-city of Carcassonne, in Southern France, became the headquarters of the living but as the last pockets of human survivors rebuilt the fragile framework of a new society, one man discovers a terrifying secret. So far, what has happened is only the beginning. Humanity now faces a true extinction level event. The dead are clustering in massive numbers.
Mere walls can’t defend against the overwhelming force of the meta-horde.
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"Metahorde takes the zombie apocalypse to a realistic and terrifying level. Buckle up because once you start, there are no rest breaks."- Suzanne Robb, Author of Z-Boat and Contaminated.“A visceral gore fest done right. The constant tension and suspense leaves you gritting your teeth. I loved it. My kind of read.”– P. A. Douglas, author of Epidemic of the Undead“Metahorde grips you from the beginning, dragging you through the doomed trenches of the gathering undead. It's exciting and terrifying -- humanity doesn't stand a chance.”- Rebecca Besser, Author of Undead Drive-Thru and Nurse Blood.
I've never made any secret of the fact that I love tales of postapocalyptica, especially those that pit mankind against seemingly insurmountable odds and, more often than not, the walking dead. However, with the ever increasing popularity of AMC's The Walking Dead on TV, it seems that everyone is jumping on the undead bandwagon. So, whenever I crack the spine on the latest zombie tale, it is always with a degree of trepidation. Step up MetaHorde: A Minstry of Zombies Novel co-written by Sean T. Page and John McCuaig...
The concept of using the walled cities of Europe such as York, Carcasonne and Dubrovnik as outposts for what remains of humanity immediately brought to mind certain chapters of World War Z by Max Brooks and as proceedings commenced, I thought this was just going to be a straightforward action-horror. To an extent, that's true. However, at a crucial point in proceedings, a new and interesting dynamic blew my preconceived notions out of the water, beefing up the plot considerably and turned Metahorde into an infinitely more satisfying read.
The undead in Metahorde are conventional, Romeroesque zombies with a bit of a twist, given that, to my knowledge, the undead have never been presented as such a marauding menace en masse before. Character development in Metahorde is limited but that's not what this book is all about. Metahorde is action-horror and wears its undead heart proudly on its sleeve; and its real strength lies in the set-pieces that have been conjured up in a world that belongs to the walking dead.
I don't feel I'm giving anything away by saying that the ending is left wide open for further entries to the series and Metahorde does in fact lay the foundation adequately for more stories from the Ministry of Zombies.... The pace of Metahorde was altogether a bit quick for my liking. Although the plotline was compelling, I felt like it raced along, sacrificing development of many elements for speed; and I can't help but feel that had there been a little more development of characters and narrative, getting the reader more invested in the main players and their plight, then this book could have been a significantly meatier read. Despite the fact that the setting for the book is post-apocalyptic and a world over-run by zombies; gore, horror and death are fairly minimal and in fact, lacking in any real description when they do occur. However, I suspect this book may well be suitable for, or indeed targeted at, a younger horror audience. Metahorde is the written equivalent of an `80s action movie: big guns, bigger explosions, bad guys you can't wait to see die and absolutely brimming with testosterone!Read more ›
I haven't finished the book yet but couldn't wait to post a review! The story is gripping and fast paced. You identify with the suffering human characters and get hacked off when the authors kill them off. The predicted meta-hordes are working around Europe destroying the last bastions of humanity. This is really bleak stuff but so much better than most zombie novels on Kindle.
For starters, it's not really about the zombie apocalypse - that's already happened. The dead already wander the streets. This story is about events a few years after. So, you don't have any 'outbreak' scenario.
Then, I think the idea of metahordes is a something new. I have certainly not come across it before in a novel so that's a nice to have in a zombie novel. The idea that the survivors will be wiped out by a giant horde of the walking dead makes for an exciting room. If I'm honest what I liked best about this book is that is a quick, punchy zombie war type tale. There's no hidden meaning (at least I don't think so!).
It's just a riveting adventure story with the major advantage of having a few million zombies thrown in!
Recommended for those looking for something a bit different in this busy genre.
However, this is real novel - I don't mean that in a bad way, just that the others were like fictional guide books. This is riveting story which sweeps across Europe like, well like an undead plague.
We see the desperate humans struggling to survive behind the ancient walls of Europe. But, they are in for one big surprise as the dead are on the move & in unbelievable numbers.
If you are a fan of the TV series Walking Dead or the other Ministry of Zombies book, this is well worth a look.
As someone who writes in the same genre, and runs a zombie website, I read a lot of zombie literature. Good and, more often, bad. The central idea intrigued me but I wondered if the author could hang a novel off it.
The answer is he can. It cracks along apace from the very start and doesn't let up until the last chapter. This also presents a danger in that it can create confusion with the characters if the writer concentrates solely on the action. Sean page shows a very deft touch in this respect. There are a lot of characters but they are all sufficiently unique, and have their own voice so that when they reappear through the novel you never have to backtrack to remember who was who. Without giving too much away I found the main character to have particularly good characterisation in that his search for his daughter is always, as you would expect, his main motivation and not just a plot device. Finally as with all good zombie literature the struggle for survival is not just against the undead but also the various factions that compete for control in this new world.
All of this really does justice to a unique idea, and combines to make a compelling and exciting read in what can be a stereotypical and rather stale genre in the hands of a less skilled author.
