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DEAD SEA by horror author Brian Keene has always been one of my all-time favorite zombie novels. This book is the reason I became a fan of Keene in the first place. The author has quite a talent for taking a hopeless situation and twisting the waking nightmare into something much worse than hopeless. I thought I had become desensitized, until I read Dead Sea.

The main character is a young gay Black man named Lamar, and the story is centered on his POV. Throughout the book, he often wonders why anyone bothers to keep fighting when they are very likely to die a gruesome death...and then come back as the undead. I love the thought process of this character. Unlike many of the other characters, Lamar is always trying to think ahead, instead of just reacting to the danger around his group.

Dead Sea is one of the horror novels I recommend as a general go-to horror novel, but this is also the Keene story I recommend to introduce new readers to the author.


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Dead Sea Brian Keene 9780843958607 Books Reviews

I read Dead Sea right after The Rising. I must say the intrinsic qualities of Dead Sea were so much higher that it almost felt like Dead Sea had been written by another author who seems to have gained in maturity, exploring darker sides of the mankind's psychology. The focus is no longer so much on raw physical violence and gore than on the intimate distress of "everyday life people".

Dead Sea is the story of a group of people, among whom some characters are quite peculiar and very far from the mainstream -which makes the plot even more interesting- who happen to "tumble" onto one another in the aftermath of a behemoth city fire, fleeing the danger while simultaneously trying to evade the plague of the living deads. They make it to the sea, where they embark on a ship. The story takes us onboard too and have us share the life and struggle of the survivors.

What is so remarkable in this book is the quality of the description of the characters' personalities and their trains of thoughts. Unlike what he did in his previous books, the author apparently decided to give a much stronger focus onto the lives and doubts and wishes and, overall, what makes people's characters so subtle and fragile at the same time. With all of their flaws and weaknesses, these survivors really are attaching and credible people, and one can't help but empathize with the core group of unfortunate chaps. Thanks largely to the quality of their description by the author, those people are just like us, far from perfect. That makes the story all the more interesting as the reader can relate to them easily.

Also, death is everywhere, and credible too, as it strikes people in the very random way we are accustomed to in real life. Death spares no one women and men, heroes and villains, kids and elders, blacks and whites, the poor and the rich... Everybody is equal in front of death. Another balanced and credible view of the world which makes the book so interesting.

There is also a strong, underlying, Romero-like criticism of many of the values that we, as a society, have established as supreme in our daily life. Religion, materialism, the military, politics, media, the police etc. do not provide any efficient material, or psychological, or ethical help in fighting a plague that is of such a magnitude. Question is when everything falls apart around you at once, what makes you fight? Basically, the book is really about the ultimate, desperate, irreversible end of the world as we know it and how people could react in the turmoil. The evil disease is global, cureless, merciless, transmissible from species to species, mutating and adaptive. A real nightmare. Boy, I would hate to find myself living in such a world...

But the author also makes us question what use is mankind's intimate self-preservation reflex when there is absolutely no more hope around? What makes us hope? What is hope? I have personally loved the fact that the book had me think about these things.

The icing on the cake is probably the excellent book ending, which leaves room to the reader for some personal interpretation. Depending on your mind, mood or personality, you may be drawn to see the light at the end of the tunnel or, on the contrary, find yourself in a bottomless pit, with absolutely no hope in sight.

A very good book indeed.
Brian Keene once again delivers a nonstop zombie thrill ride, with Dead Sea. The story begins with humans turned zombies, and then animals getting into the mix as well (zombie horse anyone?!). Then a group of survivors takes to the seas on a historic shipping vessel in the hopes of getting away from the catastrophic mayhem on land. Can they truly escape Hamelins Revenge (the name for this disease of zombiedom) or will it follow them to the ends of the Earth, no matter what? What will these survivors do to survive on the high seas? An awesome zombie novel from Keene, will keep you page turning in the wee hours of the morning, leaving you wanting more and more zombies.
After receiving my I set about looking for it's maiden zombie title and decided on Dead Sea.

I was not disappointed! I have Dead Rising sitting on my shelf but I hadn't read it yet. That's too bad for me because Brian Keene is a fantastic writer. He captured my attention from the first page and never let go. It's so refreshing to read and absorb a well written piece of fiction. I have already downloaded another of his titles and Dead Rising will be the next.

The characters are well developed and original. Keene seems to enjoy weaving God and sexuality into his characters and his overall themes. Whether these are his own beliefs or not, they work well to help flesh out the characters. I am still not sure whether I like that, but for now I am really enjoying Brian Keene's work.

This book his HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for zombie fans. If Dead Rising is being made into a movie, this HAS to be considered as the sequel.

Thanks for your time.
Ok, I admit it, I love Brian Keene's stuff. It's been awhile since I read one of his, but I'm slowly working through his body of work. I think the last thing I read was Ghoul, which was very good. This one has Keene back in the zombie apocalypse genre once again, albeit with the more standard, dumb, slow-moving zombies that you usually see in the movies and so on. This time Keene makes his mark by making changes in other ways - a protagonist that is definitely not run of the mill, and a zombie "infection" that is anything but typical in who/what it targets. As always I love Keene's language, and the pace at which his plot moves. This is a short, quick and easy read that is a blast for those that loved his previous zombie books, The Rising [RISING] [Mass Market Paperback] and City of the Dead [CITY OF THE DEAD] [Mass Market Paperback], but takes a different turn than those did. The action is tense until it ends up at the ultimate conclusion of the book. Great stuff! Can't wait to read another one!
DEAD SEA by horror author Brian Keene has always been one of my all-time favorite zombie novels. This book is the reason I became a fan of Keene in the first place. The author has quite a talent for taking a hopeless situation and twisting the waking nightmare into something much worse than hopeless. I thought I had become desensitized, until I read Dead Sea.

The main character is a young gay Black man named Lamar, and the story is centered on his POV. Throughout the book, he often wonders why anyone bothers to keep fighting when they are very likely to die a gruesome death...and then come back as the undead. I love the thought process of this character. Unlike many of the other characters, Lamar is always trying to think ahead, instead of just reacting to the danger around his group.

Dead Sea is one of the horror novels I recommend as a general go-to horror novel, but this is also the Keene story I recommend to introduce new readers to the author.