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The year i s 2112.
T he crippled U.S. government and its military forces are giving up the century-long fight against an undead plague. Born of an otherworldly energy fused with a deadly virus, the ravaging hordes of zombified humans and a nimals have no natural enemies. But they do have one supernatural enemy: Death himself.
Descending upon the ghost town of Jefferson Harbor, Louisiana, the Grim Reaper embarks on a bloody campaign to put down the legions that have defied his touch for so long. He will find allies in the city’s last survivors, and a nemesis in a man who wants to harness the force driving the zombies—a man who seeks to rebuild America into an empire of the dead.
Hailed as “A MACABRE MASTERPIECE OF POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE GOODNESS” on the Library of the Living Dead podcast, Empire brings stunning new twists to a shattering and unforgettable scenario of the not-too-distant future.
T he crippled U.S. government and its military forces are giving up the century-long fight against an undead plague. Born of an otherworldly energy fused with a deadly virus, the ravaging hordes of zombified humans and a nimals have no natural enemies. But they do have one supernatural enemy: Death himself.
Descending upon the ghost town of Jefferson Harbor, Louisiana, the Grim Reaper embarks on a bloody campaign to put down the legions that have defied his touch for so long. He will find allies in the city’s last survivors, and a nemesis in a man who wants to harness the force driving the zombies—a man who seeks to rebuild America into an empire of the dead.
Hailed as “A MACABRE MASTERPIECE OF POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE GOODNESS” on the Library of the Living Dead podcast, Empire brings stunning new twists to a shattering and unforgettable scenario of the not-too-distant future.
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leavethefeels
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Mr. Devilbrows
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“This was my first "adult" horror book and it really captured my imagination as a teenager. So many cool concepts: Zombies that can't be killed, eating flesh restoring the undead, zombies learning skills, necromancy, and of course Death himself coming to reap the undead! This book was awesome for teenage me.
As an adult in his late 20s, this book hurts a lot. As previously mentioned this story has a lot of awesome ideas and has the added benefit of limited plot armor, at least for the protagonists. The problem is that the characters are trash. There are so many characters in this story and 90% of them are either meat or ass-holes. I can count on one hand the characters that were both round and that I didn't want to see die. I get its the apocalypse but for the love of god can we get some redeeming qualities outside of not actively pushing for the extinction of the human race? Also, the sheer stupidity of these characters who have supposedly been living through this horror is staggering. The book establishes that the dead can't be killed early on and maybe a handful of characters act around that fact(only partially).
Also, the story structure is all over the place. I respect the desire to explain the lore of your world but we get entire chapters that have nothing to do with the plot and an entire subplot about a nutjob squad of soldiers that feels like it shouldn't even be in this book. The only reason this book doesn't get a 1 is due to the previously mentioned awesome aspects and a few really cool scenes.
If you want some extremely B-movie zombie action with some inspired world-building and don't mind reading about some of the worst people humanity has to offer then pick this book up.”
Anne K
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HawkeyeGonzalez
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“This was a disappointing novel. The premise is unique with Death coming to Earth to fight against the undead. However, that's not necessarily what happened. 90% of the book follows a group of human survivors, none of whom I cared about since not a lot of background was given to them. With Death finally does make more than a 2-page appearance, he's not really Death anymore.
If this were more than a two-book series, I would quit right now, but since there is only one more novel, I will finish it. My recommendation for others is to avoid it.”
About David Dunwoody
David Dunwoody lives in Utah with his wife and their cats. Other stories from the Empire universe can be found in The Undead, The Undead: Flesh Feast, and The Undead: Headshot Quartet, all from Permuted Press; as well as Read by Dawn II from Bloody Books, and at www.empirenovel.com.
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