{"id":4425,"date":"2024-05-31T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:13:50","slug":"it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over-anne-de-marcken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2024\/05\/31\/it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over-anne-de-marcken\/","title":{"rendered":"It Lasts Forever And Then It\u2019s Over \u2013 Anne de Marcken"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a zombie book. But the zombies in this book are not mindless monsters baying for \u201cbraaains\u201d. They are the same ordinary people they were before becoming zombies, with ordinary thoughts and plans, except they also need to kill and eat normal people in order to survive. They don\u2019t like it, but that’s how things are and they group together and try to make the best of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrator is one of these zombies, who leaves the group and ends up on an adventure. She tries to transcend her zombie nature \u2013 the test comes when she encounters a group of normal people. That episode did not turn out the way I expected!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book\u2019s hyper-real intensity reminded me of Elizabeth Smart\u2019s stunning By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept<\/em><\/a>. This short novel is lyrical, sad, shocking, and ultimately, maybe even uplifting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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