Bleeders: Book 1: The Red Death
DystopianAdded on April 27, 2026
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"Thoroughly impressed. I think fans of WJ Lundy, Shawn Chesser, and Bobby Adair will love this one." -James Cook, author of the Surviving the Dead seriesCan the world's biggest smart-ass survive the apocalypse?All the news channels can talk about is the Red Flu, a nasty strain that came out of nowhere to wreak havoc on the population. There's also something the government isn't telling the public about the Red Flu- both the secret of its true effects, and exactly how it spreads.Brody Tate doesn't care. He's a young smart-ass living in New York City, locked in a dead-end job. His only concern is telling his boss where he can shove it. Besides, the news only exists to scare people, right?But something is wrong. There's blood in his boss's office. A woman is dead on the floor.His boss is eating the cleaning lady.He kills the man in self-defense- not that the cops believe him- and gets carted away for murder. As if his day wasn't bad enough, his boss managed to bite him during the struggle.With the Red Flu tearing up his insides, Brody finds himself in a self-destructing New York, lost in the horrors of a crumbling city while fighting to stay alive. The question now is, if the Red Flu doesn't kill him, and someone with it doesn't, what will be left of him? What will he become?
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Brody is a little bit of a douche canoe, I liked him immediately, (yes, I have terrible tastes in men). His sense of humor and his little comments made the pages fly by for most of the book. I liked Martinez's spin on the zombie genre and the fact that the secondary characters did really seem like they had their own agency instead of just being a support cast to Tate (yep that's our main dude's last name apparently). Things fell apart for me when the group got way bigger and a lot of characters
I really enjoyed the first half of this book - the sarcastic and asshole-ish voice of the main character was an added bonus to the bloody zombie carnage that began to surround him. However, the book seemed to bog down towards the middle, and I had to really push myself to see it through. Didn't like the character of Alison at all.
3.5 stars!As a big fan of post-apocalypse and zombie novels, I was naturally drawn to Bleeders. Like most books within the genre, the story opens right before the outbreak happens so the reader can experience all the horror, panic and confusion that ensues. Inevitably, a group of characters team up in an effort to survive and avoid becoming infected. While Bleeders follows this standard progression for the most part, there are a few interesting twists that help set it apart from standard zombie
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