This of course may all just be me reading into the author’s intentions way too much, to try and find something good to say about it, and also to find a reason why I kept on reading. And so the “shocked” reader continues to read the story in order to find out what will happen to the characters in the end and whether they do go completely mad. This is in the form of the running theme of the human mind and perception of reality, using the “invisible” monsters to illustrate this.
However, despite this, and strange as it might seem, I found the book to be quite addictive to read once you picked it up, despite my intentions to put it down! I think this is because the author has set up an “alternative” interest and a form of intrigue for the “shocked” readers who don’t care much for the mindless gore. Just think of ‘Shaun of the Dead’, but as a book, and you’ll see what I mean. If the book was in film form it probably wouldn’t be so bad, but something which can be quite comedic on screen can become very much less so when everything is described in detail. In general 'zombie' stories do contain large amounts of gore and bloody battles, but I found this book’s description of mutilated bodies, the actions of some characters and in some cases, no-other-choice murder, to be quite disturbing. However, while this storyline does flow better, I thought it lacked the complete originality of the first book and seemed a bit like a spin-off with a descriptive violence overload. It continues to follow the hapless heroes David Wong and his friend John, but this book is also quite different in some ways from the last the storyline is much less fragmented and instead follows a main one the author placing his characters in a messed up zombie-style end of world story for which they are the cause, and leaving them to deal with the situation. After reading the first book in this series, 'John Dies at the End', I was pretty much prepared for the weirdness, boyish humour and obscene language I knew I would find in the second book of this series.
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