My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Normally I would wait until a month before the publishing date to review a book from Netgalley, but since I see that the ebooks were "published" already, I thought it would be okay to go ahead and post my review. Once again, I'll say thanks to Netgalley for letting me read this egalley, as well as Marshall Cavendish, the publisher.
I'm kind of surprised by how many zombie books I've begun to read. And really, while yes, this is a zombie story, the zombies play a pretty small part. They are there, they are a danger, but again we're really reading about the story of the people not infected. In this story the zombies are humans suffering from a scientifically enhanced version of rabies. One that takes humans over and can change them into almost beast like creatures, hairy, running around on all fours, or still pretty human looking. The title of this, The Weepers, was hard to find on Goodreads at first. That's because most of the book listings for this are under the title The Other Life #1. The title "The Weepers" is due to the fact that the creatures all look as if they are crying, they have "tears" running down their faces, and their eyes are swollen as if from crying.
The beginning of the book reminds me a bit of
The story line was good, and I like the science behind the disease. I also like that there is government intrigue in what could be going on. However, and I don't know if it's just because what I read was an egalley, and maybe not quite ready for publishing, but there were some grammatical errors. First, one sentence that really stood out and bothered me was this: "On the fifth floor we didn't have more luck". I think it's missing the word "any" before more luck. Just doesn't sound right. There were a few other things like that. Nothing that won't hopefully be fixed with a quick edit before publication if there is time.
Also, we get these flashbacks of Sherry's life before all this started. And while at first they seemed to fit in okay, towards the end they didn't really fit where they were going. Again, I'm wondering if that has something to do with it being an egalley, and maybe there is something wrong with the formatting of the pages. Don't know. I like the idea of flashbacks leading up to the current time, they just need to fit into the story more smoothly. I will recommend it, the story is good, just a few editing things to get straightened out to make it the best it can be.
This will be the "W" on my A-Z Reading Challenge.
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Grammatical errors in books really irk me. I know that the best editors miss things but I read one recently that had typos and actual grammar errors sprinkled throughout the whole book. I could barely finish it.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bummer you didn't like this one but you did give us an honest review and that's what matters, Lisa!
It's not that I didn't like it so much, I actually did like it. I just hope they fix the things I noticed before actual publication.
DeleteGreat honest review.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI didn't really get the significance of these flashbacks because they were SO different from what was going on. I read the paperback, UK edition (published by Usborne) and I don't remember any grammatical mistakes so that might have been an ebook issue.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's so odd that the UK title is simply The Other Life, without reference to the Weepers!
I'm glad you enjoyed it as well (apart from these errors ^^) :) xxx
I actually had a hard time finding it on Goodreads at first because what I had for my egalley listed it as The Weepers, and it was listed as The Other Life. Always interesting to see book differences between countries.
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