This isn’t a short book, so the pure, constant tale of scavenging food, evading zombies, etc. gets very repetitive. It feels like a season of a TV show, except that in Walking Dead there’s more variety going on. In contrast, Harvest of Ruin feels plodding. It doesn’t help that the characters really aren’t very likable. In particular, the female characters are shrewish, shrieking harpies, or walking nipples for magically keeping babies quiet (this guy has a serious nipple fetish), or stupid, or likely to get themselves and others killed. This strikes me as having been written by the sort of person who has to keep defending himself as a ‘nice guy’. (Oh boy. Better ready myself for incoming.)

Although I didn’t see anything up front mentioning that this was first in a series, it is. I wouldn’t be interested in reading the next book; for you that’s something you’ll want to think about before deciding whether to read this one.


Previously posted on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2017/08/review-harvest-of-ruin-arthur-mongelli/