Jorge Sánchez

First off, the audiobook is amazing, seriously. It helps the corny first person POV(which often threatens to drag things down). Jeremiah isn't so much a perfect character as his ego is likely the only way he's alive. He's had many "Joes", that is to say, the first hour of this book basically was all about the many "Joes" he'd had and how each one's lives went. We start on Joe4 as I call them.

Joe4 sounds impossibly well trained in a world without good treats or rewards but we'll let it pass. Jeremiah is an asshole, a charmer, and an annoying lout, but he's funny. I suppose being funny pays his bills, but it does not amuse everyone around him.

For a zombie story, this is pretty by the books. Zombies, survival, somehow humans are assholes instead of banding together and not trying to eat each other. My kingdom for an apocalypse where the main enemy is the zombies and really, here, we had a perfect enemy: the glowies.

So I'm at this moment seven hours out of eleven in, things really dragged for me once Lucille appeared. I guess it's the zombie story curse for Lucilles, they cannot be a good sign or a good woman.
It was really hard to take cannibalistic people drugging their human meat up seriously. You can't just cook all of that out. It made me have flashback to Green Inferno where they cooked the weed-stuffed body. Those cannibals are getting kronked and turnt.

I think as soon as the first seperation happened I was unimmersed. It wasn't hard to be pulled out but it wasn't hard to slip back in. Joe4 might be one of the best written characters in the book besides Jeremiah, although Jeremiah's best moments are when he's talking to Joe4. I half the time cannot stand him talking to Jenny, after a certain point that girl really needs to cut him off and just move onward.

“The dead roam the earth and the internet's down.”

The main plot is Jeremiah's search for his daughter, and I just feel like it comes and goes too often. It's a side plot when it should be the main focus. It comes and goes and it's near around the three-fourths part where he's so focused on diamonds and this search for his daughter that I don't get why it comes and goes. And even in the moment about the diamonds, he's more fixated on a blouse that his wife had which by all logic should be long gone.

And somehow after a serious scene, a chicken is Jeremiah's one true fear. And the scene is as ridiculous as it sounds. Since when is he Link fighting Cuckoos? Turns out in all of the world, Jeremiah's deepest fear is alektorophobia, a fear of chickens after he was five at a farm.

By all logic he'd have moved on from every fear he has due to three years of endless hell, but okay, Jeremiah, you be you.

We cut from such ridiculousness to -once more- a serious scene. Which the tonal whiplash carries here or there to the point you get removed from the immersion abruptly then dive back under the water and stay there for however long the book allows.

The whole hoof in mouth disease outbreak took me by surprise. It's one of those someone did their research sort of moments. The kind of thing that does happen in apocalypses, a simple sickness taking out entire populations due to limited resources. The chosen sickness is a bit odd, but possible, I'd suppose.

[Resuming.]

The book is a bit of a mess but it all works out in the end(go figure) and it's not terrible. I don't really think it's a good "read", but it's definitely a good listen.

If you can get the audiobook, read by James Fouhey this is a four star book. Otherwise it's a 3.5 star book, and I don't think I'd have gotten very far in without James reading this work.… (lisätietoja)

¿Sabía que España gobernó más de la mitad de los actuales Estados Unidos de América? ¿O que fray Junípero Serra es el único español representado en el Capitolio de Washington? ¿Conocía que el Galeón de Manila surcó durante doscientos cincuenta años el océano Pacífico, desde Filipinas a México, realizando la mayor ruta comercial del mundo? ¿Y que ese océano fue un «lago español» durante más de trescientos años? Adéntrese en un formidable viaje desde Puerto Rico a Guinea Ecuatorial, desde Flandes a Guam, con las exóticas islas Marianas, Carolinas y Filipinas, en busca de los ignotos vestigios del Imperio español.
Estas páginas nos desvelan la gloria de un imperio que no conoció fronteras, sorteó mares y océanos y descubrió para el mundo occidental dos continentes: América y Oceanía.
Todo arrancó con el primer viaje a América del navegante Cristóbal Colón en el año 1492, y concluyó en 1976, cuando España se retiró del Sahara español. Durante esos quinientos años la lengua española se expandió de tal modo que hoy es la segunda más hablada de la humanidad, solo por detrás del chino. Allá donde se establecían los españoles se cultivaba la cultura erigiendo universidades, se observaban las leyes humanitarias del catedrático burgalés Francisco de Vitoria, y se impartía la fe católica.
El autor, un apasionado viajero que conoce la totalidad de los ciento noventa y tres países registrados en Naciones Unidas, ha recorrido sistemáticamente, una por una, las cincuenta posesiones que España llegó a administrar por el orbe, desde la isla de Pascua a Taiwán y desde las Molucas a Guinea Ecuatorial.… (lisätietoja)

First off, the audiobook is amazing, seriously. It helps the corny first person POV(which often threatens to drag things down). Jeremiah isn't so much a perfect character as his ego is likely the only way he's alive. He's had many "Joes", that is to say, the first hour of this book basically was all about the many "Joes" he'd had and how each one's lives went. We start on Joe4 as I call them.

Joe4 sounds impossibly well trained in a world without good treats or rewards but we'll let it pass. Jeremiah is an asshole, a charmer, and an annoying lout, but he's funny. I suppose being funny pays his bills, but it does not amuse everyone around him.

For a zombie story, this is pretty by the books. Zombies, survival, somehow humans are assholes instead of banding together and not trying to eat each other. My kingdom for an apocalypse where the main enemy is the zombies and really, here, we had a perfect enemy: the glowies.

So I'm at this moment seven hours out of eleven in, things really dragged for me once Lucille appeared. I guess it's the zombie story curse for Lucilles, they cannot be a good sign or a good woman.
It was really hard to take cannibalistic people drugging their human meat up seriously. You can't just cook all of that out. It made me have flashback to Green Inferno where they cooked the weed-stuffed body. Those cannibals are getting kronked and turnt.

I think as soon as the first seperation happened I was unimmersed. It wasn't hard to be pulled out but it wasn't hard to slip back in. Joe4 might be one of the best written characters in the book besides Jeremiah, although Jeremiah's best moments are when he's talking to Joe4. I half the time cannot stand him talking to Jenny, after a certain point that girl really needs to cut him off and just move onward.

“The dead roam the earth and the internet's down.”

The main plot is Jeremiah's search for his daughter, and I just feel like it comes and goes too often. It's a side plot when it should be the main focus. It comes and goes and it's near around the three-fourths part where he's so focused on diamonds and this search for his daughter that I don't get why it comes and goes. And even in the moment about the diamonds, he's more fixated on a blouse that his wife had which by all logic should be long gone.

And somehow after a serious scene, a chicken is Jeremiah's one true fear. And the scene is as ridiculous as it sounds. Since when is he Link fighting Cuckoos? Turns out in all of the world, Jeremiah's deepest fear is alektorophobia, a fear of chickens after he was five at a farm.

By all logic he'd have moved on from every fear he has due to three years of endless hell, but okay, Jeremiah, you be you.

We cut from such ridiculousness to -once more- a serious scene. Which the tonal whiplash carries here or there to the point you get removed from the immersion abruptly then dive back under the water and stay there for however long the book allows.

The whole hoof in mouth disease outbreak took me by surprise. It's one of those someone did their research sort of moments. The kind of thing that does happen in apocalypses, a simple sickness taking out entire populations due to limited resources. The chosen sickness is a bit odd, but possible, I'd suppose.

[Resuming.]

The book is a bit of a mess but it all works out in the end(go figure) and it's not terrible. I don't really think it's a good "read", but it's definitely a good listen.

If you can get the audiobook, read by James Fouhey this is a four star book. Otherwise it's a 3.5 star book, and I don't think I'd have gotten very far in without James reading this work.… (lisätietoja)

Deadbreak by Jorge Sanchez is a fast paced and often times, humorous book about living life amongst the zombies. First off thanks to NetGalley for a very enjoyable romp through zombie infested towns. I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
Jeremiah Reid is our fearless protagonist who is accompanied by his trusty dog Joe. I believe this was the third Joe in his travels across country. Jeremiah is slowly making his way across country, collecting gold and valuables to exchange for passage to Hawaii to find his daughter who was rescued by a family friend and taken to safety. Along the way he makes some new friends and discovers new and even more horrifying zombies that scare even him.
I often laughed out loud at the conversations Jeremiah would have with his dog. I thought the story was well written, had a nice balance of humor and grisliness that kept me engaged with the story. The book appears to be a stand alone and certainly works well as such. I wouldn't be upset to follow Jeremiah and Joe on more adventures though.… (lisätietoja)