Product Description

Two very different women flee into the Texas Hill Country on the first day of the zombie rising. Together they struggle to rescue loved ones, find other survivors, and avoid the hungry undead.

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Product Details

Publisher	CreateSpace
ISBN	1438250800
Number Of Pages	298
Format	Paperback
Author	Rhiannon Frater
EAN	9781438250809
Label	CreateSpace
Studio	CreateSpace
Title	As The World Dies: The First Days: A Zombie Trilogy
Publication Date	2008-08-14
Manufacturer	CreateSpace

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Customer Reviews

Zombie Trilogy

Review by Peggy B, 2010-08-31

This trilogy is very imaginative, but the writer lacks good writing skills. Too many phrases used over and over again, uninspired descriptive passages. While the story was good, I found myself roadblocked by the bad writing. Authors like Stephen King or Dean Knootz can make you get lost in the story - while you are reading their work you feel like, no matter how outragous the story, you are living it. This author does not inspire that feeling. You find yourself picking apart her writing style when you should be lost in a good story. Read it for the idea of the story and not the execution.

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Really good zombie novel

Review by Kevin Brown, 2010-08-16

I enjoyed the book very much. Well written with interesting characters. The romantic sub-plots are a little silly with many of the characters acting with the emotional insecurites of 13 year-old girls but that is a minor complaint. Overall very exciting and enjoyable and I have already ordered the second book in the trilogy.

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Worst Zombie Book I've Ever Read

Review by Dan Shea, 2010-08-07

This is absolutely the worst zombie book I've ever read. I should point your attention to the fact that this book was independently published, likely as no respectable publisher wanted much to do with it. The reasons why this book was lousy and amateur are numerous. To get to the point, ill list a FEW examples of problems with this book that are indicative of how bad it is overall:

The outbreak of zombies is never explained. Why are people zombies? Why are the dead coming back to life? Never explained.

Every character just accepts the fact that "its the end of the world" and "everything is different now" mere hours after the initial outbreak of zombies. This is too much of a stretch of the imagination.

The author constantly recycles the same phrases, "tiny little fingers", the car "shifted into gear", the dog was "at his heels" which makes reading the book a chore.

The characters are developed poorly. Multiple characters meet and just fall in love with each other. Too much of a stretch.

They meet an adolescent stray dog that is instantly obedient and on the same page as the humans with fighting zombies. Too much of a stretch.

Housewives that likely never even held a gun are instant sharpshooters getting constant zombie head shots.

This book makes a massive attempt to show a different perspective on the zombie apocalypse and that's why I got the book. However its terribly poorly written. Things constantly go unexplained. Character development is awful. The scenarios the characters get in are poorly thought out and the only thing MORE poorly thought out are the ways in which they ultimately escape danger.

In a zombie genre there are allowed to be constant stretches of the imagination, after all it is a fantasy book. Ultimately what you receive here are massive stretches of the imagination derived by lack of creativity and skill from the author here.

This book is awful. This book was a waste of my money and my time. I would not read the 2nd or 3rd installments of this book if i was given them for free and had nothing else to read on a 22-hour flight somewhere. I honestly feel like the people who left positive reviews read a different book. I cant see how anyone would enjoy this book.

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Count the Sighs.

Review by L. Clouser, 2010-07-27

It's an almost given in any zombie novel, that there's bound to be some quick reconcile to normal life that wouldn't be entirely realistic. Otherwise we'd be following around a bunch of characters moping about their dead family and friends. BUT. The turning point that made this book ridiculous, was when Jenni managed to utter that she was glad the world went to hell in a handbasket, because gosh darn it, she was stronger for it. She did manage to showcase a little bit of the required emotion for her two dead children with the constant reminder of seeing small fingers scrabbling under a rickity door without weather stripping, but otherwise.. Jenni seesawed violently from a tragic, broken woman to a spunky, carefree girl. The girl was so forlorn and beaten, she tried to smooch her lesbian comrade for some guaranteed protection, but when faced off with some manly construction men, she was diving head first into teasing relationships, and flirting carelessly. I just couldn't dig through all the character flaws to find her convincing.
The empty headed view of lesbians kind of threw me for a loop. The constant reminder that yes, Katie is gay, is aggravating. Jenni is a woman, and they show up together, so they must be a gay couple. It's really just a little over the top cluelessness for me. The fact that Katie can change from full bore lesbian to in the closet bisexual with the introduction of Travis, irritated me.
The story wasn't all bad, and I probably could have overlooked a lot of the characterization and silly plot twists. I just got hung up on the silly, awkward dialogue and the lack of any humanity. It's one thing to kill something trying to maul you or chase you down, but to wish the living dead were nearby so you'd have something to shoot is another. Another Jenni dilemma. Everyone was quick to turn mushy over their own lost, but they were just as quick to forget that the zombies used to be people. At least the majority. I recommend Mira Grant's Feed. I picked As the World Dies on a zombie high because of the cover. I wasn't surprised to learn it was self published. A little peeve, you'll eventually start to count how many times someone sighs in this book. It's as irritating as a public speakers "um's".

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The Greatest Zombie Trilogy To Date

Review by Sigmund, 2010-07-23

No spoils whatsoever. I will simply state that this was the greatest zombie series that I have ever read and the first time I ever took the time to actually email an author stating such. A very moving trilogy. Thank you.

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