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Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines.

When an airborne “zombie” plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family, Steven, Stacey, Sophia and Faith, take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope.

For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and terror. Now with every continent a holocaust and every ship an abattoir, life is lived under a graveyard sky.

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Length: 413 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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John Ringo brings fighting to life. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a New York Times best-selling series with over one million copies in print. The series contains A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hell's Faire, andEye of the Storm. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series. Adding another dimension to his skills, Ringo created nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach, A Deeper Blue, and, with Ryan Sear, Tiger by the Tail). His techno-thriller The Last Centurion was also a national bestseller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking-Glass series: Into the Looking Glass, Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe, and Claws That Catch, the last three in collaboration with Travis S. Taylor. His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow New York Times best-selling author David Weber: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars and We Few. There are an additional seven collaborations from the Posleen series: The Hero, written with Michael Z. Williamson, Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad, all written with Tom Kratman, and the New York Times best seller Cally's War and its sequels Sister Time and Honor of the Clan, all with Julie Cochrane. His science-based zombie apocalypse Black Tide Rising series includes Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope and Strands of Sorrow. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction. --This text refers to the mass_market edition.

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ASIN : B00ELR01M0
Publisher : Baen Books (15 August 2013)
Language : English
File size : 854 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
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Print length : 413 pages

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Reviewed in Australia on 20 December 2020

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mot

Three Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2015

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a great series

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Great series start

Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2015

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Good start to what I hope will be a great series. . . . . . . . . .

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A good read

Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2013

Ringo is back on track. It seems to go off tangent at first with multiple family characters but it's certainty well worth the effort.

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Ben

Enjoyable as long as you let it take you for a ride and don't stop to think.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2016

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If you like zombies and action, you'll like this book. It has these in spades, though at times it gets a little repetitive. A global viral outbreak has created a zombie apocalypse, 28 days later style. Pretty much identical in every way, apart from the specific cause of the outbreak and it's initial spread.

In general the book is enjoyable action fare, though the world-building and characters really don't hold up to scrutiny and the holes can become rather annoying if you stop to think about them. My advice is don't. It's a quick and entertaining easy reading without too much depth, don't expect more and you won't be disappointed.

The two areas that irritated me were the way in which everyone in this book is pretty much incompetent, except for the central family, and I mean truly, Darwin Award incompetents, and that goes for everyone in a position of authority.

But the most annoying single feature is the women. There are technically three in the central family, though the mother is practically invisible she gets so little page space. The daughters, are allegedly 13 and 15, which is the most annoying feature, because it's what breaks the story the worst.

We are expected to believe that a 13 year old girl is able to deal with killing 'zombies' (technically infected humans) with absolutely no problems, and less time spent dealing with her emotional response than combat veterans who are described as functional sociopaths. We are also expected to accept that she is the size and strength of an average adult male. She has the unarmed combat skills to act and react in close combat without hesitation and is an ace shot. Further she apparently has sufficient training to teach a US special forces soldier about clearing an enclosed area, in this case a ship. Combine this with the way she talks and reacts to other characters, and how much more mature her tactical and operational thinking, all at the age of 13. Her sister is somewhat more believable at 15, and far more cerebral in her persona, but it's still a bit of a stretch. It would be so easily fixed by not insisting on stating their unbelievable ages every few paragraphs, or actually using believable ones, so I'm not sure why Ringo is trying to sabotage his own story, unless there's some long range story arc that requires the girls to be this young to fit in later, but that seems like a really stupid thing to do.

After a few days reflection, I have edited my review to remove one star, because you need something beyond endless zombie bashing, and Ringo does not deliver. The world is not coherent and believable enough to actually care about, and the characters are either some degree of incompetent, or total heroes who can do no wrong. It's too 2 dimensional, and I won't be reading the next one.

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Good addition to the Zombie genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2017

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A good addition to the Zombie apocalypse sub-genre in that after some preparation and beginnings of the explained collapse of society on land, the story takes to the waves. Given that the sea is not always kind adds its own (though limited) difficulties but the main action revolves around saving people who in various ways are lost at sea or trapped in ships. The pace cracks along and we get to know a family in which two determined teenage girls are vital to survival.

The only distraction is that the style of writing is broken into very short bursts which while it keeps things moving is oddly unsatisfying at times. These 'clips' of a few lines even when they are obviously part of linked events broke up the flow for me on occasion.

There is also a lot of military and nautical jargon which while I am familiar with some of it, the references did at times puzzle me. Yes, it adds authenticity to a military-based family but I could have done with a list of acronyms to refer to.

On the whole though a good read.

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Readers shouldn't have to roll their eyes every second page.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 November 2018

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Author writes a good, realistic, sensible zombie story. Then has a super strong super tall 13 year old girl be the main badass. While listening to her ipod.

I can't see any reason at all for this choice. He had a character in book one that would easily fulfill the same role - the uncle, Tom. This 13 year old and her sassy one liners (in the anime style) form the main comic relief of the book also. I should note that while I found this mostly poor, some of the passages were highlighted a number of times, so it's clearly to someone's taste.

Overall could have been one of the best zombie stories. Ended up one of the worst.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2015

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excellent series

Strong diverse characters

Reviewed in Germany on 11 January 2021

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As always (in my experience) there is a good range of strong diverse characters and the muscle-bound hero is a 13 year old girl.
A great, entertaining and easy to read story which is almost believable and speaks to disaster handling from a number of perspectives, how the police, big business and individuals act.

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