Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Typhoon by Wesley Chu

THE WALKING DEAD: TYPHOON, Wesley Chu takes a big damn bite out of the zombie genre, bites again, and releases horror onto the world.Wesley Chu, which brings the zombie apocalypse to Asia.

Yeah, we all know The Walking Dead in America.

We've seen the total destruction and hoards.

Well now imagine China with nearly 1.4 billion zombie ready bodies all crammed in a small location. It has been months since the dead rose up across China. In the most populous country on the planet, the cities are all but lost, small villages reduced to ash.

The characters are a mix of people from China and from America, civilians, military and others. Zhu and Elena are members of a Wind Team, responsible for scavenging supplies and materials needed to sustain their settlement: the Beacon of Light. Elena, stranded in China during the walker outbreak, longs for news of her Texas home as she tries to adapt to life in a foreign culture while surviving the millions of dead roaming the countryside. But when Zhu discovers survivors from his home village hiding in the wilderness, he is torn between his love for Elena, his duty to the Beacon, and his devotion to his friends and family.

Meanwhile, Hengyen, the grizzled master of the Beacon’s security, discovers the largest group of walkers ever seen: a 1,000,000-strong typhoon that is bearing down on the Beacon. He must lead all of the survivors into the biggest battle of their lives, or humanity will be wiped out for good.

The Walking Dead Typhoon is an Amazing book. Wesley Chu captured the end of the world perfectly in gory detail… It is a definite cut above so many of the zombie books out in the .wider zombie-verse

The first half builds a selection of first-rate characters in search of love, survival, and anything in between while the final act is a tremendous blend of zombies and hell on Earth.

The best thing about this book is that it isn’t just another ‘run and gun.’ With themes ranging from totalitarian rule to desperate family love, Chu adds much depth to Typhoon’s action-packed pages and the writing shows passion for the dead.

A talented writer with an edge for gore and storytelling.

4.5/ 5 STARS

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