I received “Vertical City” ahead of time to provide an honest review. It’s apparently part 1 of a 4-part series. There’s not much new ground to be plowed in the zombie genre, but this book does it, primarily because of the ingenuous setting. Instead of trying to outrun the zombies, the survivors of a plague decide to live ABOVE them. Not sure why someone hadn’t thought of this cool angle before, but this small group of evacuees crash-land (a la “Lord of the Flies”) on top of a building at the height of the crisis and then begin to colonize it and several other buildings, stringing wires between structures, using ladders, etc., all so that nobody has to set foot on solid ground (unless they want to) which is overrun by the newly-risen dead.
The hero’s a young building-climber who operates in a small “ledge jumping” team of grunts who swing between buildings to forage for useful gear, food, weapons, tools, etc., to be brought back for use by the community. This first book, Part 1, sets up the world and the dynamics that exist inside the main building “Vertical City 1,” and the other outlying structures. When the hero and his team-mates aren’t risking their lives evading the zombies (called “Dubs” here) or swinging on the wires that crisscross the buildings, they’re trying to survive and make their way in the different castes that exist inside the confines of the buildings (which have been sealed off at the tenth floor as a security measure against the zombie hordes). Book 1 was exciting and set up quite a bit of potential conflict between the characters (kind of reminding me of “Wool”) that I assume will only grow in subsequent books. Looking forward to Part 2.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2015
