Monster Island

     This story was kinda hard to get into. I'm not much of a zombie fan, so it was new for me to read about this zombie story. From the beginning of the story, it seems like each chapter was a new character that was telling the story. At first this confused me, but after a while It got interested to have a story that switches a person perspective of what is happening.  It wasn't until when near the middle of the story that I started to figure out who is our main character and what was going on (the plot of the story). It turns out a plague has spread and turned most of the people into zombies and Manhattan has become a zombie-infested island.

     There is a character that I do like, the doctor Gary that is a zombie.  What makes him different is that he has control over his urges and tries to help the main character Dekalb and the group of teen school girls (East African girls with their AK-47's). The reason why he has control over his zombie cravings is that he did experiments on himself and the result was him turning into a zombie but still have his brain. This makes this easy for him to blend in with the rest of the zombies and not be attacked, and having him with Dekalb and the girls, makes valuable to have if they need him. There is a interesting kind of friendship or trust with between Dekalb and the zombie doctor Gary. Gary seems to be the only one that will listen to Dekalb and wants to help him and his group to get the medicine and get back on the boat. Even though Gary is a zombie, I think Dekalb is glad to have someone to talk to and think of plans of escaping/ killing the zombies.

     I did fund that the parts with these trained girls with of guns killing zombies was a little bit funny. I just wonder why it was mostly girls and Dekalb, I think when gathering a team to go into New York, they could have found a boy (in his teens or older) to help and fight. If there were illustrations to this story, i bet the schoolgirls with guns would look a bit funny. Towards the end I feel bad for Dekalb, being the only adult in a group of young girls killing zombies (with a terrible battle plan), and he's never used a gun in his life. And he's risking his life to go into New York to get AIDS medicine. Then he and his daughter Sara will have citizenship and will be placed in the safes place in the world. Dekalb is trying his best to make it through this and to be back with his daughter, but no one on his team is taking the time to listen to him. Until when something happened to their commander and the rest of the girls are waiting for orders from someone. Like all they are able to do is respond to orders and fire their AK-47's.

       There are two more parts to this story and maybe there is more detail to be discovered in the other books. As for this first part of the trilogy, I thought that the idea is interesting, but I would like more detail of the characters and about the settings (more detail to get an image of the story). I'm not much of a zombie fan to read these types of books, but it was interesting to read something different than what i usually read. I would say for anyone who likes stories about zombies, then they will be satisfied with this book.