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Joe here with another review for you all!
This one is about a book called ‘Braineater Jones’ by Stephen Kozeniewski.
This one is about a book called ‘Braineater Jones’ by Stephen Kozeniewski.
Here’s a little bit of the blurb to entice you:
Braineater
Jones wakes up face down in a swimming pool with no memory of his former life,
how he died, or why he’s now a zombie. With a smart-aleck severed head as a
partner, Jones descends into the undead ghetto to solve his own murder.
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Thank you to the Author (Stephen Kozeniewski) and Red Adept
Publishing for providing me with an E-Book copy of Braineater Jones.
This is an honest review.
Imagine waking up dead, so dead that you are without any
memories as to who you are or where you’re from or even why you’re floating
face first in a swimming pool?
That is exactly how Braineater Jones wakes up, or at-least
opens his eyes, face first in a swimming pool with a bullet hole through his
torso without any memories of who killed him or who he is. Oh yeah, I forgot to
mention; he’s also a Zombie.
From then onwards we are drawn into the fast-paced, action packed, bloody hilarious story of Braineater Jones, a Zombie Detective!
From then onwards we are drawn into the fast-paced, action packed, bloody hilarious story of Braineater Jones, a Zombie Detective!
This book was such an amazing read! I’m not a massive fan of
the Crime genre but this one grasped me.
If you’re a fan of the conventional Zombie stories then
you’ll be a huge fan of this unconventional and unique zombie detective story.
The plot for Braineater Jones was beautifully written and
was just so gripping that I found myself staying up into the early hours of the
morning wanting to know who Braineater Jones was and why he was killed.
The actual story was really very simple to follow and mostly
quite linear, though it did contain a few twists and turns, which shook the
plot around to make it a much more enjoyable read.
There were parts where you’d think ‘what the hell is going
on?’ and then the next chapter would explain everything with either a great
comedic narration from Braineater Jones or a great detective sequence from
Braineater Jones and Alcibé
That’s another thing! The Narration that is done by
Braineater Jones himself is hilarious, especially when he keeps assuming that
in his past life he’s these different professions and then dismissing it.
The places that The Author created was so very consistent to
the reader’s imaginations, it practically was a description of any back-alley
town that you’d find in any kind of suburb. This back alley town was called
‘The Welcome Mat'.
The Welcome Mat is home to mostly Deadheads, Junkies and
Prostitutes. This makes the settings for the Detective side of Braineater Jones
perfect with twists and turns at every corner.
The characters in this book were described very well and
had good character development, I generally felt a good connection to the
characters while reading this; it kept me really enticed to know and want more
from this story!
Braineater Jones is the Protagonist whom we follow trying to
find out who he was, what he was and what his real name was, because of his
memory loss his name has also been wiped leaving him to come up with the
persona ‘BrainEater Jones’
He is possibly one of my favourite characters to date; he
was just so authentic.
How he spoke like a pissed off old man really was hilarious,
constantly being sarcastic and always joking around really made his character
so much more likeable and real.
I did like how the Author incorporated a softer side when
Braineater Jones met Alcibé, going to show that the development of the
character’s humanity still stayed with him after death.
Alcibé was the profound un-titled sidekick/partner to
Braineater Jones; with the twist being that Alcibé is just a head, which also
earned him the nickname of ‘The Head’
I did enjoy he witty and sometimes one-sided humour which Braineater and Alcibé had, also I did like how The Head was Jones’s logical voice and that he wouldn’t constantly question whether or not the situation was good or not.
I did enjoy he witty and sometimes one-sided humour which Braineater and Alcibé had, also I did like how The Head was Jones’s logical voice and that he wouldn’t constantly question whether or not the situation was good or not.
The fact that the Deadheads needed booze to remain in
control of their un-dead selves was clever; if they didn’t drink enough booze
they turn into the form of Zombie that we all know and love… the ones that
bite.
Especially when the book was set in the 1950’s, which is
when the prohibition happened, so there were limited suppliers of booze for the
Deadheads.
I also liked how the Deadheads didn’t really know why they
had returned from the grave; that they just had was a bit of weird circumstance
for them.
Anyways! My over-all thoughts for this book are that it’s
fantastically written, it’s got a-lot of Dark humour, which is always great,
and the characters/places/storyline is just amazingly developed.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes Zombies, detective/crime books, Dark-humour books, etc.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes Zombies, detective/crime books, Dark-humour books, etc.
Thank you again to the Author (Stephen Kozeniewski) and Red
Adept Publishing for providing me with an E-Book copy of Braineater Jones.
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Joe :)
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