The Worm Reviews

“”Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series.””
After 9/11, twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, are the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They are called the ‘First Suicide Battalion’. These boys go into it all with attitude, pop culture references...

This parody of a survival guide is written by Max Brooks, who also wrote World War Z. Now, let me just clue you in here… Mr Max Brooks is none other than the son of comedy extraordinaire Mel Brooks! So, I guess it runs in the family, though, I myself was kind of taken back by how serious World War Z was. The Zombie Survival Guide...

The world is now owned by the dead. The Zeds, or Stenches, now own the lands. They hunt for fresh human flesh to feed upon.
One exceedingly wealthy man was given a warning ahead of time. He springs a plan into action for his hometown.
Make it a fortress unto itself. Bigger and better than anything the military has tried. He tossed as much...

When Hollywood screenwriter and former Border Patrolman Robert Wallace recovers from a sickness that nearly killed him, he finds that his wife has been killed, his son is missing, and Los Angeles has been turned into a zombie wasteland. Wallace strikes out on his own in search of his son, who has managed to keep himself alive after witnessing the death of his mother. It’s a...

The War Between the Dead and the Living Has Begun
Cord McDaniels, nicely promoted to Lt. Colonel, is now in command of Joint Task Force SPARTA along with another freshly promoted Gartrell. The lab is making progress on a vaccine, but so are the zombies in their trek to overrun the facility. They number in the millions, having swarmed and built their numbers crossing the...

We once again see Special Forces operators Cord McDaniels and David Gartrell together again, no matter how much they may dislike one another.
The ‘smart’ zombies seem to be making a trek, gathering other along the way, toward Texas.
McDaniels and Gartrell are sent to a medical facility in Odessa Texas where a team is working on an anti-virus. Their mission is...

So this book has been laying around the office for quite some time, so I decided to take a look. What I was introduced to was a cute collection of cartoons showing every day Finns in social settings. Now, I have never been to Finland and I only know two Finnish people. But from what I can gather, they are highly introverted. This book shows a...

Seen the movie? Brat Pitt was hawt.
Toss out of your head everything you remember about the movie, even Brad Pitt.
This book is nothing like the movie in the least.
Still gripping and exciting, and way better.
The author, Max Brooks, takes us through the zombie apocalypse through interviews with people all around the world, from high profile political...

This book is in my top five list. Not sure what the other four are, but this one, definitely. Pressfield's knowledge of ancient Greek warfare is what makes this novel so special. Yes there is great writing and action and Spartans galore. However, it is descriptions of the Spartan regimen that is the true magic behind this book. I studied ancient warfare in college and none...

New York City has fallen to the zombies. All those millions of people are walking flesh eaters.
In the 1st book in the series, The Gathering Dead, we see First Sergeant David Gartrell sacrifice himself to see McDaniels and the last remaining survivors make it to the Cutter. His ammo is almost gone. He is far from any other military detachments. All he has is...

Major Cordell McDaniels is given the most important mission of his career: lead a Special Forces team into New York City to rescue the one man, and his daughter, who can stop the ghastly virus that reanimates the dead.
The ‘Zeds’ or ‘Stenches’ as the zombies are called, infest the streets, making the Big Apple nearly inescapable. What makes this terrible turn even more...

The City of Angels has always been there for the lost and the damned
Containment Team 6 is sent to destroy a spreading evil most of the world thinks is myth. Vampires.
Things get messy in their mission, as one of their own is taken. The vampires have plans of their own.
Our heroes’ mission becomes a search and rescue, until they find...

Ever since their college days, five friends get together to play a game. They call it the Apocalypse Game. They even keep track from week to week what number they are up to. This week, Scenario #683. However, our presenter is absent, and sends her scenario via voice recording. Her friends wonder, worry even. Do they really know what she does for a living?
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This book holds many short novella style stories. I will review each one here for ease.
Countdown: This is the prequel to Feed. It’s a little bit on the history of the viral manipulation and incidents to cause the Kellis-Amberly virus we see in Feed. It’s pretty much the story of how medical research is wonderful, but as often that happens through history, humans have...

There was no way I was going to pass this book up...I mean, I literally counted down the days until its release. I had pre-ordered.
We find our gang back at it. Yay, George! Yay Shaun! Dr Abbey! The giant scary dog, which are outlawed for being over 40 pounds, but hey, he is well trained.
We finally get to see why and...

With Georgia Mason gone, her adoptive brother Shawn is on a self destructive rampage. The News Organization he built with his much loved sister is at a loss as Shawn spends much of his time poking dead things with sticks, and trying to piece together just what the government is up to. When he is confronted with a new lead, suspicion runs amok, but that doesn't...

In the not so distant future, we see a cure for both cancer and the common cold. Somehow, the two come together and create something completely new, turning the dead into zombies, and infecting those bitten or scratched. It's a world where blood tests and a shower of bleach is a daily, or many times a day, routine.
Our heroes are the new world's journalists,...

A few years ago, I set about to read as many of the classics as I could. I think so many of us talk about how much we love them without really being honest about reading them.
This book was difficult at best to get through. The premise of the story is brilliant and we all are pretty familiar with it from TV, movies, cartoon...

Another review of the source material for the Marvel Avengers movies. Once again, this is the source material, if you have only seen the movies, they loosely follow the concept. Previously I reviewed Infinity War here, this story to me is a bit closer to what was used in the movies...but not really. Here, the bad guy is someone called the Magus, the evil alter-ego of...

So let me start by saying that I read this book because I was video chatting with my teenage daughter one night (I'm currently deployed) and I asked her what she was currently reading. Her excitement over this book made me go on Amazon and immediately buy it so we could read it together and discuss during our video chats.
It is a Young Adult...