Review of 'Xombies: Apocalypse Blues' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
In yet another apocalypse book, Xombies : Apocalypse Blues tells the story of 17 year old Lulu, one of the few women immune to the Agent X plague, which turns women into slobbering killers, infecting men along the way. Lulu, for reasons which remain unclear to the end, doesn't get infected and helps lead a troop to safety in Greenland(!). A meandering book, with too few Xombies and too many strange discourses on the rich and famous, is a book I'm surprised I finished.
Lulu leads a nomadic life with her strange mother and they only find out about Agent X after it has been loose for a bit. Her mom gets it but she barely (one of many last minute extrications) escapes thru the help of a local man who may or may not be her father. They fight their way threw hoardes of xombies to a naval base …
In yet another apocalypse book, Xombies : Apocalypse Blues tells the story of 17 year old Lulu, one of the few women immune to the Agent X plague, which turns women into slobbering killers, infecting men along the way. Lulu, for reasons which remain unclear to the end, doesn't get infected and helps lead a troop to safety in Greenland(!). A meandering book, with too few Xombies and too many strange discourses on the rich and famous, is a book I'm surprised I finished.
Lulu leads a nomadic life with her strange mother and they only find out about Agent X after it has been loose for a bit. Her mom gets it but she barely (one of many last minute extrications) escapes thru the help of a local man who may or may not be her father. They fight their way threw hoardes of xombies to a naval base that has a submarine. Then the next third or more of the book is spent on board this submarine, as they make their way to Greenland, where, perhaps, Agent X can't survive but they can. But when they get to Greenland, there's an even more bizarre community awaiting them.
I finished the book, which is suprising, because I usually have a short plug when I start to find a book boring. And when they got on the sub and tehre were no more xombies, I got bored. And when they got to Greenland, I got bored and very very confused. I kept pushing thru, hoping for better but it never really made sense and in the end, I wish I hadn't stuck with it. It just wasn't that exciting.