{"id":714,"date":"2013-08-07T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2013-08-07T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T23:14:15","slug":"review-ex-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/review-ex-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ex-Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7793307\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1347510099m\/7793307.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ex-Heroes\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7793307\">Ex-Heroes<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3396842\">Peter Clines<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/688845505\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Well that was a rock n\u2019 roll good time. I\u2019ve read a few zombies novels and none of them were very good. Until now. Heck, this was better than just better. This was actually pretty damn kick-ass. <i>Watchmen<\/i>, <i>Avengers<\/i>, <i>Heroes<\/i>,<\/i>Walking Dead<i>, call up whatever comparisons you like. Here\u2019s a bunch of superheroes, familiar enough to be believable but not so familiar to be cheap copies. Zombies, but Clines gives them a new nickname, and enough gore to keep you scared but not too much to just demoralize and gross you out.<\/p>\n<p>Some love, but not too much. Some inter-personal animosity, but not too much. Some moralizing, but not too much. Can you dig it, a zombie novel that\u2019s neither existential or nihilistic?<\/p>\n<p>Clines nerds-out in a few places, and while I\u2019m not saying he loses control, there\u2019s definitely sections where momentum nearly gets the better of him. But so what. What\u2019s a tiny jot of inconsistency when you\u2019re watching zombie heads getting shot, crushed, chopped off, torn asunder. What\u2019s a little repetition.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and spoiler alert, for a change, we get the zombie origin explained in no ambiguous terms. So refreshing. Then again, the hero explanation isn\u2019t ever mentioned, but\u2026 well, I guess one out of two ain\u2019t bad.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/688845505\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well that was a rock n\u2019 roll good time. I\u2019ve read a few zombies novels and none of them were very good. Until now. Heck, this was better than just better. This was actually pretty damn kick-ass. Watchmen, Avengers, Heroes,Walking Dead, call up whatever comparisons &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/review-ex-heroes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Ex-Heroes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}