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Thunder and Ashes (The Morningstar Strain) | 
| Author: Z.a. Recht
Creator: Travis Adkins
Publisher: Permuted Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 7336
Media: Paperback
Pages: 312
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1934861014
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781934861011
ASIN: 1934861014
Publication Date: April 21, 2008
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 slightly better than the first October 26, 2008
Above The Rim (USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the first book and found it juvenile; the second was slightly better. It would pass as a fair graphic arts book. By the way, vehicles would be ruined running on plane fuel. If you want a real good zombie story, minus the hooha and mega testosterone flush, check out Brian Keene , now thats good zombie reading.
a good zombie book October 16, 2008
J. Harrison. (Seattle)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had some free time on my hands so I've been catching up on leaving some reviews. I read this book a little after it came out.
It was good. I wished there were more zombies in it but as a character driven story it was great. Anytime you can be with decent characters for more than one book its always fun.
And I have to comment on the African, Suez thing, something about East and West.
Who Cares?
Its a book about the walking dead, the entire book is make believe. the key to enjoying a good book is to not take the work too seriously.
When you look for fault, you will inevitably find it, so knock it off you guys out there and relax and read the book, and if you don't like what your reading, then write your own book and put exactly what you want in it and then come back and wait for all the small-minded people to start picking your passion apart like a weeping sore on a leper.
And if anyone ever reads my reviews, there will never be a bad one because If I didn't like it I will keep my opinion to myself.
Positive is good, people, negative is bad. One person's trash is another one's treasure and books fall into that category.
I'm not talking about the truly horendous books either, I mean the ones that are basically literature.
In conclusion, this was a good book and I am looking forward to part 3. J.H.
More Ashes Than Thunder Unfortunately October 15, 2008
Colin P. Lindsey (Manchester, NH)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read the first zombie book by Recht, The Morningstar Strain, and thought it was OK by the standards of the genre. I ordered this sequel when it came out and tried to read it a few weeks ago. I know I'll probably get slammed for writing a negative review, but I the story-telling tension in the first book just isn't here. I actually enjoyed the first book: it dealt with the first outbreaks of the disease in Africa, how it swept the continent and spread throughout the world, and told an engaging story of a group that battled the outbreak as they tried to contain it Africa at the Suez Canal, lost, and then had to flee by ship across the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific to get back to the West Coast of the US. The panic, confusion, combat, the losses, the outbreaks on their ship, their interesting stops in the Phillipines, and then what they find when they get to Oregon was all a pretty decent story.
In this sequel though the magic is gone. The few survivors are trucking across the country but the author depicts an empty country....where are all the corpses, the highways choked with vehicles and zombies? The survivors are also pretty stupid and careless. In one early scene a guy walks into the men's room without clearing the room first and gets bitten. After all these people went through from Africa to Colorado I just don't think they would be making such stupid mistakes.
Anyway, much as I wanted to like this book as much as the first one I simply didn't. The storyline was less interesting, the characters were not as intelligent, and I couldn't buy into the depiction of the US. If you like zombie fiction I'd recommend World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel), or Dead City. I liked those books a lot better. Or, even better, pick up Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler. That one will blow your boots off even if it isn't technically a zombie book.
 Amazing Book! October 13, 2008
Danessa Larmon (Tulsa, OK United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was every bit as good as the first. The author is a great guy too. He let me mail him a copy to personally autograph for my mom's birthday. My mom read it then my two brothers. We are all waiting for the third in the trilogy.
Wonderful October 10, 2008
Robert Green
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A very good sequel to a very good book
i must say i did not put it down from sundown to sun up
i didnt even realize that i had read the book all night till my alarm went off
full of great adventures and action sequences that will just grab and force you to find out what happens next
im looking forward to the next on
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