![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The format really broke the world for me and I didn’t feel like I was immersed in the story. It reads like a carefully crafted memoir. Kate’s diary reads like an edited book, not a diary:Īs we walked slowly among the stones and bones, I began to pick out distinct islands: leaves, moss, whole ferns torn up by the roots, all pressed into the earth and all of it mixed with the long, coarse fibers I now recognized as hairs. Brooks sprinkles in interviews with experts, such as rescue teams and scientists to flesh out the world for us, but it doesn’t really work primarily because of the diary format. It uses similar storytelling as WWZ: a diary from a resident, Kate Holland, who has left us a first hand account of the massacre and remains missing. Big, big fan.īut I did not like this book. I fangirled hard when I saw him at Comic Con on a zombie panel. I read it in university and – being a history major – loved how it used primary source documents (first hand accounts of historical events, such as interviews, diaries, or letters). I’ve been a big Max Brooks fan ever since I read World War Z. The residents fear they might run out of food, unaware they are about to enter into a territory war with Bigfoot. After a volcanic eruption, the community is caught off from the rest of the world. Greenloop is a community built on the idea of creating sustainable, eco-friendly living. ![]()
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