Comments on: Review: Beautiful Dead (Book 1 Jonas) by Eden Maguire

By: jared

jared — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:06:25 +0000

it was a great book all together

By: Alaina Margaret

Alaina Margaret — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:15:41 +0000

I actually really enjoyed this book; I can relate to some of the characters. The whole ‘zombie’ thing is just Eden’s personal oppioin, that’s all, she mixed it up a bit. I could read this book, again, and again. I can’t wait to read book two(:

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:37:58 +0000

I liked this book for just the reason you disliked it. Well at least one of the reasons anyway. I’m not a fan of the literal interpretation of zombies so this departure made use of that element much more pleasurable for me. Now, I haven’t read as much paranormal literature as you likely have so I may not be able to see the weaknesses but I thought it was a good first step into that sub-genre.

Was it perfect? Not by any stretch. There were story flaws and definitely some predictability. But all in all I like the concept of a girl still living helping those who have died find closure.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:56:48 +0000

I agree with you on the zombie thing. I feel a lot of authors are using the word zombie for their characters, but they are not actually zombies.

I was suppose to receive this book from Teen Fire. I won it in a contest, but I guess it got lost in the mail. Maybe I will pick it up to read later. Thanks for the review.

Oh, and here is an award for you over at my blog: http://sarah-myworldofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-awards.html

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:51:56 +0000

The plot sounds like an amalgamation of a dozen different anime shows. Not very original.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:32:51 +0000

This whole concept of “zombie romance” really wigs me.

Then again, most of these “zombies” are just various degrees of reanimated dead of which you can have so many types and so many names…

For me, the term “zombie romance” calls to mind “s/he only loves me for my brains” not… reanimated dead who still have a consciousness beyond overriding hunger for flesh.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:36 +0000

I think this is my main problem too. It seems zombies want to be romanticized now and I don’t feel they can evolve the same way the vampire did in general.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:57:23 +0000

I’ve seen this book all over the place the last couple of weeks, and the reviews have been very mixed. I’ve seen only a couple who really loved it, a bunch who couldn’t stand it, some who didn’t finish it, and not much in the middle.

That really bugs me that the dead kids are called zombies, when they’re clearly not really zombies. Zombies are night-walking, brain-eating, flesh-rotting beings. They are not able to interact in any meaningful way with the living.

I think I’ll give this one a pass. The whole non-zombies-zombies would get on my nerves too much.