Ex-Heroes

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%.

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.