Ex-Heroes
Ratings33
Average rating3.6
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Ratings33
Average rating3.6
Book One in the EX Series The Mighty Dragon. Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. They were superheroes fighting to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread. Billions died, civilization fell, and the City of Angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland. But the ex-humans aren’t the only threats the heroes face. Another group is amassing power . . . led by an enemy with the most terrifying ability of all.
Series
4 primary booksEx-Heroes is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Peter Clines.
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The author failed to create empathy for the characters, the world and the setting. The book starts, like many others, narrating the events of as story as if you already knew everything. There is no proper exposition, and when it does start, through the telling of each hero's individual story, I did not find it compelling.
Gorgon story was nice though.
Read 01:38/08:03 20%.
Could have been fun if all the characters weren't so annoying.
Zombies and superheroes are two of the dominant myths of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and it feels like it should be one of those “chocolate and peanut butter” things, but it really isn't. The heroes don't really get a chance to be ‘heroic', in the way that superhero stories usually define the term, and a lot of the body horror and survivalist threat of the zombies ends up being stripped away as a result.
In addition, the book felt crowded, with characters that seemed interesting but whom we never really got to meet, and the plot made it feel at times like you were reading a report of someone's RPG campaign, rather than a novel.
