Sarah B. (bourgette) reviewed on 1/18/2014 + 27 more book reviews

World War Z is not your typical zombie novel. Told from the perspectives of several survivors, Brooks story reads more like a war memoir than a work of fiction. When you are reading the stories you cant help but think that these might be real people.
Brooks incorporates many different countries and nationalities (US, Russia, China, Cuba, Germany, and more)into these oral retellings. If you have ever wonder how you could survive a zombie apocalypse in any part of the world, Brooks addresses it. He takes us to the International Space Station and the brave astronauts who chose to stay and maintain the satellite network. The reader meets the commander of Chinese sub whose crew chose to run from their military duty in order to save their families. We also hear from the soldiers on the front lines, those tasked with fighting the Zs (zombies) and sometimes humans as well.
What you take away from this book is that behind all the scariness and coolness of zombies, there is the humanity of the survivors. George Romero first showed us how the zombie apocalypse might start and The Walking Dead showed us how a select few might survive, but Brooks shows us how humanity will survive. He concerns himself with the psyche of the survivors, not just their methods. He also focuses on the environmental side effects of a zombie apocalypse something that I have never seen addressed in a zombie story.

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