Book Review: Dead City

Title: Dead City

Author: Sean Platt and Johnny B. Turant

Genre: Mystery/ Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Series: Dead World

Book Number: 1

Format: Kindle

Publisher: Sterling and Stone; 2nd edition

Published: March 12, 2017

                                           Pages: 448

                                           My Rating: 3 stars

Synopsis

Rising star Ian Keys has climbed to the top rungs of pharma giant Hemisphere-creator of Necrophage, the drug that paused the necrotic outbreak that allowed the infected to live among us.

Ian's new position gives him access to dangerous information that could ruin the company when ominous hints from an anonymous insider set him on the hung for the biggest secret of all, he discovers that the "cure" the company gave the world might not have been a cure at all.  

Now men are watching Ian's house.  They are following his wife wherever she goes.  When he is called to CEO Archibald Burgess's office, he is taken by armed guards, then plied with threats.

What would happen if Necrophage failed? Burgess asks what would become of our society if the disease were allowed to progress again, and all of our well behaved patients slowly turned feral?

There is only one person Ian can take his case to, reporter Alice Frank, who has been trying to blow the whistle on Hemisphere for years.

My thoughts

As I started reading this, at first I thought this was going to be an awesome book.  But as I was reading, I realized that it was basically a zombie like story plot.  Don't get me wrong, the plot was okay and interesting, but because it was a zombie sort of plot, I just couldn't see myself reading more of these books.  It started slow, and it felt like a soap opera.  Thus why I am only giving this a rating of 3 stars!

About the Authors

Sean Platt is an entrepreneur and founder of Sterling and Stone, where he makes stories with his partners, Johnny B. Truant and David W. Wright.

Sean is the best selling author of books that include Yesterday's Gone, and Invasion Series.

Sean is originally from Long Beach, California, but now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children.

Johnny B. Truant is co owner of Sterling and Stone.  He spends his days creating cool stuff with his partners Sean Platt and David W. Wright.

Johnny is the best selling author of over 100 books under various pen names, including the Fat Vampire and Invasion series.

Originally from Ohio, he now lives in Austin, Texas, where he is surrounded by creative types as weird as he is.