![]() ![]() Yet, often times, his choices were probably better. Like in most cases, Hempel’s interpretations don’t really match up with how I originally imagined them. Joe Hempel has to take on the task of bring a world alive that is already alive in my brain. Fans of Keene will rejoice at having these new versions of The Rising and City of the Dead to embrace, and be slightly jealous of the new fans getting to experience these stories for the first time. Like most of Keenes’s book, while grounded in traditional tropes, it’s far from a traditional zombie novel. City of the Dead isn’t just a novel about inter dimensional “demons” inhabiting the bodies of the dead to eliminate life on this earth, it’s also an often heartbreaking look at a man reconnecting with his child and understanding what it means to be a father. Also, as I followed Brian Keene’s career, one thing that truly stuck out to me in City of the Dead was how personal this novel must have been for him. Over a decade later, and I can now truly appreciate how truly cutting edge and influential this novel has become. When I first read The Rising and City of the Dead, the current wave of Zombie fic was in it’s infancy. ![]() It’s really hard to review the audio version of a book you read originally over 10 years ago. City of the Dead: Author’s Preferred Edition by Brian Keene ![]()
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