Brian Keene City of the Dead Review

Overall Rating

The Rising was very original, scary, suspensful, humorous, at sometimes emotional, and actually makes you think.

There was a lot of cussing and sexual situations.

In Brian Keene's book, The Rising, I found it very interesting that even though the book contradicted what many people picture a zombie to be, it was still very creative and believable. Although it was very graphic in both violence and sexual situations, which I would normally put a book down for, it was still suspenseful and interesting enough to keep my attention and stop me from banishing it to the bookcase. I read this book faster than I have read any before and is one of my favorites. Being the huge zombie genre fan,I came for the zombies but stayed for the new and refreshing point of view and noticeable bits of humor camouflaged in a creepy shell.