Publisher:
S&S
Release
Date: 12th
February 2015
Edition:
UK hardback,
review copy
Other
Titles in this Series: Zom-B,
Zom-B
Underground, Zom-B
City, Zom-B
Angels, Zom-B
Baby, Zom-B
Gladiator,
Zom-B
Mission, Zom-B
Clans, Zom-B
Family
B
Smith has cut a pact with Mr Dowling and is living in his filthy, blood-smeared
underground lair...What sick plans does the psychotic clown have for her now?
‘What’s
so different about me?’ I whisper. ‘Why does the clown care? Why has he been
shadowing me for long?’
Mr
Dowling shakes his head softly and his eyes start rolling madly again. He
reaches up and runs a blood-drenched finger across my left cheek, drawing some
sort of a pattern on it. Then he runs the fingertip across the tops of my
severed years. I wince but he doesn’t withdraw. Instead he gurgles something.
‘It’s
time,’ translates Kinslow.
‘Time
for what?’ I squint.
Kinslow
grins with sadistic relish. ‘Time to build a new Becky Smith.’
When I first picked up Zom-B I never expected to be devouring
book ten as soon as it arrived through my letterbox, but I gobbled up Zom-B Bride in a matter of hours.
We left B as she made a deal
with the devil (super creepy clown, Mr Dowling) in order to save the humans
left at the power plant. Being carried across London by a hoarde of zombie
babies is seriously creepy and a brilliant image, but I was more disturbed by B’s
seeming ease with the babies! But once they arrived at Mr Dowling’s it suddenly
made sense. In revealing his plan, Dowling shed some light on some of the stranger
things he’s done to help B over the course of the series. It was a total
surprise and I love the direction it took, even if it was slightly creepy.
As B spent more and more time
with Mr Dowling, and communicating with him in surprising ways, I actually
began to feel a little sorry for him. He was a man once and Zom-B Bride explored that wonderfully;
his dissent into crazytown and how it has affected his judgement and morality
was really interesting. I love how Darren Shan uses Mr Dowling to look at good
and evil and how it can blur when you put the actual human being into the
equation. Brilliant!
As always, I this instalment of
the series and I can’t wait for the next. It does make me sad that there are
only two left, though...
Thanks to S&S for this!
Sophie
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