What’s Alaskan Undead Apocalypse: Containment about?
Running. Hiding. Surviving.
Anchorage, once Alaska’s largest city, has fallen. Now a threatening maze of death, the city is firmly in the cold grip of a growing zombie horde.Neil Jordan and Dr. Caldwell lead a small band of desperate survivors—including young Jules and Danny—through the hellish undead maelstrom. With their refuge compromised and behind them, Dr. Caldwell and the others place their faith and their lives squarely in Neil’s hands.
With life and death hanging on every decision, Neil must face each new obstacle without breaking. And the group presses on toward their last hope: that this nightmare has been contained, and there still exists a sane world free of infection.
But to reach it, they must survive and escape…
Our Alaskan Undead Apocalypse: Containment Review
The sequel to Alaskan Undead Apocalypse finds the characters from the first book still struggling to survive. The group is dealing with their own dynamic when they meet another survivor, Maggie. Her inclusion in their activities leads to some interesting events and reveals to the readers some of the inner turmoil that is happening inside the mind of Officer Malachi.
Sean Schubert’s second book in this series is just as edge of your seat suspenseful as the first. We get more background on the characters and its done in such a way that it flows within the action. Containment picks up where the first book had ended and really hits home the impact that the outbreak has on the characters. Set in Alaska, the remoteness and beauty of the state are brought out in such a way that the reader is placed square in the story and is breathlessly fighting alongside the characters as they run and hide and hide and run.
What is a nice take on real world disasters akin to the Haiti earthquake a few years back, is the way that some survivors react. Their mental state, actually anyone’s mental state, is affected by the events around them. Some people can handle disruption of their ‘stable’ world and others can’t deal with it. Maggie is a good example of someone who falls back on a twisted sense of righteousness. Without spoiling the story, I’ll only say that her character as portrayed is not someone you want to be with in the aftermath of any major disruptive event. If you’ve read or seen the film ‘The Mist’ you might have an idea about what I’m talking about.
Sean Schubert’s writing is crisp, the action scenes intense and descriptive. The movement of the characters can be traced using Google Earth and it makes sense where they go and what they do. Alaskans are known for their resiliency and Schubert portrays that nicely within Alaskan Undead Apocalypse – Containment. What sets this apart from other novels in the genre is that the focus is on the character’s actions and interactions not so much on the zombies. By now, most of us know what the zombies will do so we don’t need entire chapters dedicated to their actions. The primary focus is always the survivors and how they deal with a changed world, as it should be.
Overall, I say this novel is one of the better ones out there. If you haven’t read book 1 in this series, go get it. Then read this one and eagerly await the next.
One little thing Sean in case you read this: a stubby clip magazine. It’s one or the other, a clip or a magazine not both. Just an FYI.
Where can you buy Alaskan Undead Apocalypse: Containment?
Alaskan Undead Apocalypse: Containment is available on Amazon
