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I love this book, and the series as a whole is in my top 3 of best zombie stories. Feed by Mira Grant, and Day by Day Armageddon by J.L.Bourne finish out the list. Book one of this series can be a little slow at times, but as you read on you realize that it's needed to show the progression of the dead themselves. This is a book with live people in it, and by book 2, and onwards the action, and terror picks up. But ultimately, this is a series about the dead, and if you stick around long enough to finish the series it all comes together, and you discover what these dead were all about. Seriously stunning. I think Mr. Moody is one heck of a storyteller. Yep, I'd recommend this book and series and author.


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Autumn Autumn series David Moody 9780312569983 Books Reviews

David Moody, Autumn (Infected Books, 2002)

To take an old publishing saw and turn it on its head, for every million self-published disasters, where cartons of bloody horrible novels sit in an author's basement waiting for a single sale, there's one monstrous, awe-inspiring success story where a self-published author becomes richer than Croesus based on word of mouth alone.

But I'm not here to talk about Christopher Paolini, I'm here to talk about David Moody. Who is not yet Croesus, but probably will be given a few more years.

Autumn is like nothing you're ever read. It is often referred to in word-of-mouth gatherings as a zombie novel (and, in some cases, the zombie novel), and it's blurbed as a zombie novel on its cover. But here's the thing it's no more a zombie novel than 28 Days Later... is a zombie movie, really. And this has led to some negative reviews by folks who were expecting something other than they got. If your blurb suggests a comparison to Romero, your readers are going to expect Night of the Living Dead lite, at least. Autumn is, above all, not that.

It actually starts out rather more like Day of the Triffids than Night of the Living Dead-- a plague, whose genesis we do not yet know (though I assume we'll find out in the rest of the series), wipes out most of humanity. Or so we think-- again, our perceptions are confined to England here. For all we know, the rest of the world is just fine. (A trope used to great effect, with opposite endings, in Day of the Triffids and 28 Days Later....) But it's England we're focused on, and things are decidedly not fine there. A small group of survivors of the plague holes up in a drafty town hall and tries to live together. Moody is not interested in everyone coming together to face tragedy despite conflict, as was the case in Romero's or Robert Kirkman's or Brian Keene's works; no, Moody allows that the group is not sacrosanct, and three of the characters split off to try and find something better. (And yet even this group is not sacrosanct; Moody's iconoclasm cuts all the way to the bone, folks.) The remainder of the first book deals with the first period of his three characters adapting to post-plague life, after the dead finally do get up and walk around, which takes an awfully long time for a supposed zombie novel. It's impossible to go into the other main differences between Autumn and your typical zombie novel without major spoilers. Let's just say that Moody seems to have set out to write, simultaneously, an anti-zombie novel and a satire of zombie novels. Which, for obvious reasons, seems as if it's going to be working at cross-purposes with itself. And yet, somehow, he succeeds-- well enough, at least, that I've put the other three novels in the series in my shopping cart, to be bought with my Christmas gift certificate.

As with most post-apocalyptic novels worth their salt, Moody doesn't focus on the by-products of the plague (in this case, the walking dead); he uses them as accents to highlight his story of interpersonal relations. Which sometimes falls a touch flat; there is, after all, a reason this is self-published work. But while the gulf between self-published and professionally published work is often a vast one, there is the odd book now and then that narrows the gap considerably; Autumn is one of them. This is one of the best-written books you'll ever see outside a professional publishing house. It's worth your time. ***
An original, innovative zombie story with sympathetic characters and excellent exploration of the human psyche.
This book was a very odd yet interesting read. I personaly thought that the book would be about surviving the zombie apocolypse struggling to survive mass hords and finding recources, instead the story focuses mostly on there characters emotional struggles and human on human conflict. In most of the book the author keeps letting you into the characters heads about there fears and emotional struggles of what the world was and what the world is now.He also creates man on man (woman) conflict between the characters which becomes boring at times because they fight at such simple tasks such as whether or not to go into the house. finaly after about 2/3 of the book it finaly picks up and starts to have the zombie conflict. although this is the first book of the autumn series. it dosent draw much attention for someone who is looking for a thriller/horror novel.
First let me applaud the author on creating a compelling Zombie world in which to take his readers through. With some nice twists (Zombies which do not immediately rise, and when they do...don't immediately notice the Living..brilliant!)...this book is written with a more serious tone than some other books in the genera might be. This is a book for the person looking for a Zombie drama, not a Zombie Die-Hard experience. Also, because the situation takes place in England, its a refreshing change of location.

Unfortunately, at least for me, this book takes a very, very, very long time to get rolling. The very cool twist with the zombies I mention above is not used as well as it could have been, in fact its somewhat tragic that the book didn't explore this situation further. Soon the situation changes and the standard human-attacking zombie is back in the fold. This is a cool idea that I hadn't encountered before and frankly, I wished the author had spent more time here....it could have *really* made the pacing of this book unique (rather than the standard Humans-Run-From-Attacking-Zombies).

Also, endless reminders of the shattered psyche of the characters really starts to get in the way after a certain point, particularly when nothing much is happening. When things do get rolling, the story immediately begins to mirror...well.....isolated Farmhouse? 'nuff said. So we are treading on a bit of conquered ground to a certain extent. This, by itself isn't an issue...but because the book takes quite a bit of time to get our characters to said farmhouse, it seems to all wrap up fairly quickly...as though the Author only wanted to include enough "meat" in this book to sell the sequel.

One last thing, because we are always reminded of the horror the characters are experiencing, the author seems that gives them carte blanche to behave like jerks, all the time. This gets old since, halfway through the book, I was hoping they'd all get wiped out, and a new more "deserving" bunch of humanity would appear ) No such luck.

So, I hated it? No, absolutely not. In fact, I'm buying the next book in the series, because I want to see more of the world the writer has created. Issues with the read? Yes....but not terrible ones. I'd rather have a slow book with some well-traversed zombie situations than a shallow cliche ridden action fest. But in the end 3 stars....I enjoyed it, but with some reservations. I am, however, looking forward to reading more...something I can't say about all the books I read.
I love this book, and the series as a whole is in my top 3 of best zombie stories. Feed by Mira Grant, and Day by Day Armageddon by J.L.Bourne finish out the list. Book one of this series can be a little slow at times, but as you read on you realize that it's needed to show the progression of the dead themselves. This is a book with live people in it, and by book 2, and onwards the action, and terror picks up. But ultimately, this is a series about the dead, and if you stick around long enough to finish the series it all comes together, and you discover what these dead were all about. Seriously stunning. I think Mr. Moody is one heck of a storyteller. Yep, I'd recommend this book and series and author.