Hey Guys!
Joe here with another review for you all!
Today I’m going to be reviewing Alessia Giacomi’s book ‘Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl’
Joe here with another review for you all!
Today I’m going to be reviewing Alessia Giacomi’s book ‘Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl’
Here’s a bit of the blurb to get you intrigued:
Eve used to be an ordinary girl, from an ordinary town, with ordinary dreams, but her dreams rapidly turn into nightmares when one grave mistake leaves her a little less than human and a lot less average.
Eve’s not quite the same girl she used to be. She desperately clings to her humanity as new desires, new abilities, and new urges take over with each passing day.
Eve’s not quite the same girl she used to be. She desperately clings to her humanity as new desires, new abilities, and new urges take over with each passing day.
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I was sent an e-book copy of this by the author for an honest review.
The story, in my opinion, was quite a generic
story with a good undertone during certain scenes, especially the
fighting/zombie scenes.
I enjoyed the way that the author created the
origin for the zombie virus, which intertwined the original zombie style we all
know and love and a twist of Egyptian history.
The disease was cleverly written in, though
there was a ton of foreshadowing before hand; I did enjoy how the author linked
the events of Dr August’s work colleague almost being chomped by a zombie in a
room surrounded by hieroglyphs of hawks on every wall, then becoming a Zombie
himself after a ton of Hawks peck his face practically off, which transmits the
disease to the work colleague. There is a little bit more information about
these scenes but I won’t spoil all of it.
The story was pretty solid mostly all of the
way through, until the ending, it suddenly started to break down in terms of
enthusiasm? I felt as if the author went for a generic ending, which wasn’t
great honestly as it made the book seem very Deus Ex Machina in a way. There
were also quite a few cringe worthy and cheesy bits during the final few
chapters… some that weren’t really needed atal.
I did enjoy the middle section that involved
quite heavy fight scenes and a more intense zombie structure.
I did enjoy the premise of the story though,
like how a zombie could contract the Azreal virus and become like Eve, super
strong and have enhanced healing powers, this allowed for a strong dynamic
during the fight scenes and the dramatising of the characters and their scenes.
And it was a good take on how a person with
this virus explains and feels the changes from Zombie to Human. I did like that
aspect on it as normally these days we see how people would survive during a
zombie apocalypse and not how a human/zombie couldn’t retain a zombie apocalypse
especially one which could be created by them.
I didn’t like how it was all in first person
either, as I didn’t feel connected to any character during it due to the fact
most of the context was stated ‘I said’. I mean, for example in Cam’s paragraphs
we see Eve show emotion but since the paragraph is focused on Cam, I felt as if
we should feel so much more from emotion him?
This goes for the other two aswell; I didn’t
feel the raw emotion that you would if it was written in Third person.
I also didn’t catch the bit when Cam and Eve
become Boyfriend and Girlfriend, I mean yes they do kiss in a couple of scenes
but that doesn’t automatically make you Boyfriend/Girlfriend even if you have
liked that person for as long as they did. It would’ve seemed so much more
realistic if they actually had an ickle romance scene… it would’ve been
stupidly cheesy, but way more convincing.
Okay… so, I kind-of didn’t really like any of
the main characters in this, I could tolerate Eve but that was about it.
Don’t get me wrong, they were good characters,
but I felt as if they were very stereotypical characters?
Eve was the MAIN character we followed through
this book as the Zombie virus was passed onto her, automatically we focus upon
her as the strong, badass female, which she is, again don’t get me wrong but I
felt as if her ‘badass-ness’ wasn’t at the fullest potential the author could
create.
But she is also this hot headed girl who always
seems to know what to say and what to do in certain situations, even if the
situation seems so unrealistic and very fabricated, in the sense of a fictional
reality.
Also… she does get a tad few creepy thoughts
towards cam at the end of the book…
Nether-the-less, Eve was possibly my favourite
character out of the three.
Alex was Eve’s best friend and was the ‘pretty’
one of the trio.
I can’t say that Alex did much during this book
but act as the middle-woman between Cam and Eve’s relationship.
I don’t really know what to say about Alex as
she didn’t really do much, I mean yes she was at the dig site and helped Eve
when she turned a few times, but she mostly comforted Eve when her and Cam kept
falling out.
Cam… Ugh… honestly, I’ve never been so annoyed
at a character in my entire life…
I didn’t like how the author made him out to be
this Manly character saying things like ‘I choke back the some tears at the
thought. I’m a man, after all’ Like seriously you can still be manly if you
cry, its just an emotion? I get why the author has done it, to make Cam seem
like a masculine guy but it doesn’t work honestly.
And considering his dad was an
alcoholic/abuser, the way he snaps and hurts women the way he does questions
his Manliness, like he punches a girl in the tit… don’t do that, that’s not
cool, considering the weight difference between these two characters (one being
a tall lean man, the other being an average height and average build girl, from
what I perceived) he could’ve just pushed her off of him with a slight amount
of added force?
I don’t know… I just felt as if the author tried
to glorify this character, as he was a love interest, while subtly glossing
over the fact he was literally his father, even though he didn’t want to become
him.
Overall, I did enjoy this story, as it was a
fun and quick read.
The zombie element of the book is great and
refreshing, but I did feel as if it turned into an Urban-Fantasy type of book
rather than this action-y/horror-y type of deal.
You can purchase a copy of the book here:
Thank you so much to the author for supplying
me with a copy of this book!
I also have the sequel so look for that in the
near future.
Thanks for reading this!
Joe :)
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