Ashton Memorial (The Memorial Trilogy Book 2)
All are headed to the city of Ashton, which has also fallen to the undead. And conditions a It is the day after the end of the world. And conditions at Ashton Memorial Zoo are going downhill from there Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Ashton Memorial , please sign up. Lists with This Book.
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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Nov 17, Patrick D'Orazio rated it really liked it. Ashton Memorial starts off where Lakewood Memorial left off, with Angie, her two kids, and Parker, the man they met at the hospital in the first book, on the run as the zombie apocalypse has begun. Robert Best continues to heap plenty of action onto this saga, with rarely a page going by without some sort of zombie mayhem taking place. Maylee and Dalton, the two kids in this tale, have learned how to deal with the undead-particularly Maylee, who has become somewhat of an expert with the use of a Ashton Memorial starts off where Lakewood Memorial left off, with Angie, her two kids, and Parker, the man they met at the hospital in the first book, on the run as the zombie apocalypse has begun.
Maylee and Dalton, the two kids in this tale, have learned how to deal with the undead-particularly Maylee, who has become somewhat of an expert with the use of a baseball bat. The quartet make their way to Ashton, a larger city where Park's twin teenage daughters live with their mom and step dad. They figure out upon their arrival that the girls have made their way to the Ashton Memorial Zoo, where Gregory, the step dad of the girls, works. The story works well as an study of how people react to intense situations and start to crumble under pressure and fear.
I do think that perhaps a few of the folks were a bit over the top in how zealous they were and how devolved they were in the face of the horrible situation they faced, but still this was a intriguing journey for the main characters with how they dealt with the undead, the living, and the animals, which have gone berserk as the dead have risen. The changes in the animals was the most interesting part of the book for me. They aren't infected, or so it seems, and they don't have any interest in the undead, but they want to kill the living human beings, as if they blame them for what has happened to their world.
It would be interesting to see if that plays a part in the third book or not, but I thought it was a highly interesting and creative approach to involving the rest of the animal kingdom in the zombocalypse.
Ashton Memorial
Best has also done an interesting job of embracing swearing in both books in this trilogy. I know there are some authors out there, and plenty of readers, who would prefer that there be no swearing or cussing in their stories, but Robert has gone the opposite route, making an effort to have his characters become master vulgarians.
It serves as comic relief, in my humble opinion, as you read the story. Certainly, I think the story could have been done with less cursing, but some of the verbal combinations are so creative they are actually impressive. So I guess the key is to note that the cursing is ample here and just embrace it. Overall, this book, like the last one, are fun, gory, action-packed zombie apocalypse novels filled with mayhem and chaos aplenty. The author has no fear of killing people off, and does toss in some good surprises for the reader along the way. Again, I think there were perhaps a few overreactions by some folks in terms of how desperate they become and how willingly violent they are just a couple days into the zombocalypse, but I certainly wouldn't put it past some folks out there to go completely bonkers within a few hours of seeing the dead rise.
Beside that minor gripe, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to the final chapter in the Memorial trilogy. Sep 18, Heather Faville rated it liked it. Parker Welch, who also survived the initial battle, joins them in their escape from the hospital, but has a mission of his own. He needs to get to Ashton where his daughters live with their mother and stepfather. Ashton Memorial is very fast paced and action oriented, which, for the most part, worked well for me. Robert R Best did a good job putting the characters in situations where they needed to think their way out and use items that were available to them to clear their path of the shambling masses.
Although, there were a few instances here and there where I felt a scene was maybe too easily escaped, especially with no injury or death. I loved that the survivors end up in a zoo. This was a new and very interesting location when dealing with hordes of flesh-eating fiends. I enjoyed many of the characters, both old and new, and was glad to see that we continued to follow the story of the Land family along with Park as he searches for his daughters.
I will admit that the Park storyline left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth, but not because of bad writing or storyline. His story just hit on some personal issues from my life and I found myself wanting to quickly get past certain scenes. There were, also, a couple of characters that we come across that I feel went off the deep end a little too quickly and too easily.
Even with the few things that bothered me, you can chalk one up to another enjoyable read by Robert R Best. Sep 23, Felicia A rated it really liked it Shelves: An action-packed follow up to Lakewood Memorial. If not for all the wild animals, that is. But seriously, the zoo is kind of like the Noah's ark of the zombocalypse. While I did enjoy this book, the situations that Angie, Parker and the kids got out of time after time when all others they encountered wound up dead got to be a little unbelieveable.
I like bo An action-packed follow up to Lakewood Memorial. I hope Parker comes to his senses; I hope Angie finds a home for her kids; I hope Dalton can make people more like him and take back all that humanity has lost May 19, Andrew Neill rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Was not a fan, it was too much oh look a threat beat it, oh look another threat beat it and so on, and the same characters that entered left, did not feel like finishing the trilogy. Feb 15, Robert Beveridge rated it it was ok Shelves: Best, Ashton Memorial CreateSpace, After finishing up Lakewood Memorial , the first of Best's projected Memorial trilogy the third should be released later this year , I wasn't thrilled, but I was intrigued enough to check out the second volume in the trilogy given that while Best wasn't really doing anything new with the material, he could at least write it well enough to keep me interested and minimize the damage from some of the shortcomings.
Now I've finished Ashton Memorial , book two, and what I most feared occurred: The first of these shortcomings, which was more restrained in book one than the second, has been mentioned in any number of reviews, so I'll just touch on it here: Best's use of profanity has gotten way, way out of control. While it wasn't at a level in Lakewood Memorial that showed the kind of thoughtful precision I would have liked a great example of what I mean by that is Joseph Finder's wonderful novel Paranoia , he at least kept it to a dull roar.
Not so here, and other reviewers have already posted the most unintentionally amusing examples. The second is a bit more distressing, and yet it hasn't been addressed by anyone. Best is attempting to make the personalities of his characters age-appropriate, and to an extent that is to be commended. But Best's younger characters tend to sound and act much, much younger than they are; Dalton's age is given a few times as twelve, but without that, I'd have pegged him at seven or eight. Same with the supposedly sixteen-year-old Ella; even now that I've finished the book and know there are no references to it within, I wonder whether Best meant her to be mentally challenged, because there's no way a sixteen-year-old, however immature, would do and say some of the things Ella does.
Those two criticisms can basically be tacked onto my review of the first book and the conglomerate could stand verbatim; other than a change of scenery and an Evil Overlord TM , there's really not much difference between Lakewood Memorial and Ashton Memorial. Those two criticisms, however, are enough to drag the rating down an entire star. Will have to think for a while about whether I want to pursue this trilogy to its conclusion.
Jun 28, Donny rated it it was ok. I am curious about the escalation of the outbreak. But the sheer number of near misses for characters really escaped plausibility several times. I am aware I am writing this about a novel with zombies.
I think the big thing that took the score down was a few of the deaths near the end of the book. I am not going to spoil who bites it. But after the insane near misses throughout the book, the first one that goes had me literally saying no way. The next one, I just knew, there was no way this charac I am curious about the escalation of the outbreak.
Ashton Memorial (Memorial Trilogy, #2) by Robert R. Best
The next one, I just knew, there was no way this character was going to die. Which just meant they had to. Given how he was taking his daughter's corpse off, I expect him to be a Governor figure in the 3rd book. The one character that almost gets everyone killed constantly is friggin immune!
I really loved the first book in the series. I will be picking up the third book in the series. I think that is an excellent idea. That will give the readers a group of people to get invested in and get the surviving characters to a new less whiny place. I am also looking forward to the in development werewolf novel from Robert R. Jan 11, T. Brown rated it did not like it.
I have to start by saying I don't take pleasure in writing a bad review. Just because my site is called Brutally Honest Reviews, that does not mean I sit in a room with a hatchet, waiting to pounce on some poor, unsuspecting writer. That said, there is not one thing I could think of that is nice to say about this book. The Independent Sep 10, Best , Laura Best , Deedee Davies.
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