Tooth And Nail: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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The pace is fast, and at first I found it slightly difficult to keep the characters straight in my mind - perhaps because as military, they seem to blend together more easily than say, a group of civilians. This document was uploaded by our user. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish Once I put down my smut addiction and delved in earnest into this book, I loved the pacing, the story, the gore, even the present tense writing style that gave me some troubles in DiLouie's other novel, The Infection. Written from the persepective of the soldiers in the military, the book is filled with military jargon and expressions that add to the immediacy of the story in the same way the shifting narrative and the present tense writing style adds to a disorienting and rapid-pulse feeling for the reader.

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This is one of the few books I've read that approaches the zombie apocalypse from where it started. And it shows how difficult it was for the soldiers both physically and mentally. They are sworn to protect the American people and now they have to kill some of them and leave others behind to fend for themselves. I enjoyed this book. It was in turn, heartbreaking, gory, thrilling and scary. With nothing better to do, he grabbed a severed chitin blade of one of the abominations and used it as a makeshift sword. This is my first experience reading author Craig Dilouie and I was pretty impressed. Out of the dozens of zombie novels I’ve read over the years, this was the first to really focus on the military aspect of the plague (other than Jonathan Maberry’s PATIENT ZERO, but that concentrated more on an isolated covert operation and included only a sprinkling of zombie action) Usually the military is used in the periphery, but in TOOTH AND NAIL, Dilouie drags the reader not only into the middle of the action, but into the minds of the soldier. Like any group of people, you have the good and bad, the courageous and cowardly. Craig DiLouie's Tooth & Nail is a zombie story filled with practically non-stop action and very realistic detail. It is obvious that DiLouie did his research before or while writing this novel. Tooth & Nail is very military focused and while I have a little bit of knowledge, I do not know a lot of the details of the military world. Therefore, I asked my husband as I was reading questions here and there about whether this would work, would they really do such and such and each time he affirmed that what I was reading was spot on. The military personal are very realistic and believable, there are no SUPERSOLDIERS who do extraordinary feats. They are simply men doing their job in a world that's gone to hell.

The Irregulars knew that the moments when hope finally shined from the distance were often the most dangerous, so they did not allow themselves to relax and fought with fierce determination. I'm biased towards infected humans over the undead, both fast and slow ones, though novels with such antagonists are few and far between. This is one of them. At that moment, the veil of shadows created by the Shadow Lantern finally dissipated. The Irregulars saw a stunning image...

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But I am pretty sure my ESL students won't be at the level where they are engaging with the 2-dimensional nature of the characters, so I'm not too worried about it. Tooth and Nail features "infected", not "zombies", and the virus is a genetically altered mutation of the rabies virus. So not exactly zombies, but similar, though it reads like a true zombie book. The stone hive, which had been unified and deviously intelligent before, suddenly seemed to lose much of its coordination.Tooth and Nail starts with a disease that sweeps through the city with rapid pace, beginning as a virus with a high mortality rate, and morphing into a 'zombie' disease. Keeping the shadow sword tangible was eating through what little he had left with frightening speed, but the worst offender was the Shadow Lantern. A Divine Memory was as gluttonous as one would think. On top of that, there were the Dying Wish and the Mantle of the Underworld.