Dead of Night – Jonathan Maberry

General Information
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Title: Dead of Night
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Read By: William Dufris
Copyright: 2011
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (2011)
Series Name: Night
Position in Series: 01

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 12
Total Duration: 13:50:29
Total MP3 Size: 381.14
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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Publisher’s Summary
A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed
to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But
all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he can be buried, the
killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world
ends. Not with a bangà but a bite.

Amazon Reader Review
I loved it… I just don’t think there is much more to say! But I will
anyways…

I have read most of Jonathan Maberry’s books, and one thing I love about
him is his ability to create images. When I read a book like this (let
me clarify: when I read a GOOD book of this genre), I tend to see a
‘movie’ in my head. I often assign some actor to a particular character,
and I see the action in my mind, which is what I like. Doing this helps
me connect to the characters. It helps me form an attachment to what
is going on in the book. Maberry is a master at doing this for me.

Desdemona Fox, Dez to her friends, is a mess. A beautiful gulf war vet
turned rural cop. She is damaged, bitter and hard, but that doesn’t
stop Maberry from turning her into a likeable character that embraces
her flaws. Her partner, JT, is your typical cop, or so we are led to
believe. He is in his 40’s, but his love (NOT that kind of love, but
more a father to a young girl) for Dez, gives him another dimension.
Billy Trout, respected reporter for the small town they live in, is
Dez’s on again, off again love interest.

What Maberry does here is create a plausible explanation for the zombies
that are creeping up everywhere. I think that has been done in the past,
and it is always overwrought, almost cheesy, but Maberry crafts a very
believable explanation, and we are left wondering exactly who the monster
is – those that created the ‘virus’ or the zombies themselves? The carnage
in here is typical for this type of book-but there was nothing offensive
or over the top. The isolation the characters must have felt and the
idea that a town could be ruined while cut off from ‘civilization (by
a storm in this case) created a sense of dread that fit the atmosphere
of this book perfectly.

The end actually brought me to tears, and I won’t spoil it for you,
but Maberry left it open for a sequel, and I HOPE he explores this further.-

Great book! Can’t recommend it enough!

EDITED TO ADD: Mr. Mayberry contacted me to thank me for this review.
How cool is that? Made me giddy, but I do think that is why Mayberry
crafts such relateable characters. He seems to really listen and care
about his readers. I think by actually reading his reviews, and emails
(I sent him one before and he answered that as well!) he knows what
his fans want, and that shows in his books.

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