A Beautiful Madness
A Beautiful Madness | 09 October 2012Was I the only one disappointed by this book? I was expecting a book a lot more about zombies, but I got this mix of anti-racism book with some zombies. I mean, the book starts with Zombies....
Good Books And Good Wine
Good Books And Good Wine | 09 October 2012I am bizarrely attracted to books about zombies, even though they scare the living daylights out of me pretty much every single time.The reason behind my zombie book attraction is that I can hand...
The Crime Segments
The Crime Segments | 09 October 2012If you go to the author's website you might notice that UK writer Darren Shan is a guy who really isn't a crime novelist at all, but instead specializes in Urban Fantasy and horror, mostly for...
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly | 09 October 2012Shan, author of the Cirque du Freak and Demonata series, enters the zombie genre in a thoroughly bloody fashion with this slow-burning horror piece, which opens a planned 12-book series. This...
WTF Are You Reading?
WTF Are You Reading? | 08 October 2012This book is no trip through the daisies on a warm spring morning, and its NOT the ZOMBIES that are so mind numbingly terrifying. The most horrifying aspect of this gruesomely dark tale can be...
Shots Crime & Thriller Ezine
Shots | 04 October 2012I first came across Darren Shan’s writing when I worked as a bookseller in Edinburgh nearly ten years ago. ‘The Saga of Darren Shan’ books were incredibly popular with Edinburgh’s kids and I’m...
Between The Pages
Between The Pages | 04 October 2012
WOW, this little book had a big punch to it.
After the prologue I was hooked to this book. There was things about this book that made my skin crawl. The big one being B's father. He was a...
Reading Nook
Reading Nook | 03 October 2012When B's father first sees the news reports about zombies in Ireland, he laughs it off. Even if there were zombies, he doesn't care much about the Irish...or blacks, or Indians or anyone not up...
Youth Services Book Review
Youth Services Book Review | 03 October 2012What did you like about the book? This was an amazing and fast paced zombie novel by the master of horror, Darren Shan. This is not your typical zombie book. First of all our heroine is a tough...
Booklist
Booklist | 02 October 2012In the first of a 12-book series, Shan introduces B, an 11-year-old antihero living in Britain. B’s gang of hooligans are going about their routine—cursing, stealing, fighting, drinking, and...
The Telegraph
The Telegraph | 28 September 2012Darren Shan's ambitious new 12-book series, which will run until 2015 and see a new book published every three months, gets off to a cracking start with the opening book, Zom-B.
It's a...
Fluttering Butterflies
Fluttering Butterflies | 27 September 2012Zom-B by Darren Shan was a quick, surprising read for me. Based on the cover and my very limited knowledge of the horror books that Darren Shan writes for teenagers, I really expected one thing...