Review - Death Troopers
just finished this book moments ago and had to post a review. i loved this book. a combination of a couple of the best genres out there. science fiction, in this case Star Wars, and horror, in this case zombies. after reading this stand alone book by Joe Schreiber i'll probably be picking up his other books.
Death Troopers has a great pace, quick from the start and straight on to the end. its zombies with an updated twist. well, it IS in space after all. AND in the Star Wars world. because, really what could be more horrifying than a zombie StormTrooper? not much.
definitely a must read for those who love Star Wars and don't mind a little gore. and a recommend for those who love zombies, no matter where in the universe they may be lurking.
When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge's half-dozen survivors-two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board-will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn't really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
Death Troopers has a great pace, quick from the start and straight on to the end. its zombies with an updated twist. well, it IS in space after all. AND in the Star Wars world. because, really what could be more horrifying than a zombie StormTrooper? not much.
definitely a must read for those who love Star Wars and don't mind a little gore. and a recommend for those who love zombies, no matter where in the universe they may be lurking.
When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge's half-dozen survivors-two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board-will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn't really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.