Zeeka and the Zombies
About
Zeeka and the Zombies is the first book in the mind-blowing Revenge of Zeeka five-book science fiction series.
It is the year 2036 and it is a high-tech world.
Dr. Raynor Sharpe has a vision of zombie-like men with small heads walking on the beach. He awakes to find a female doctor, Janet, who is engaged to another man sleeping in the other room in his beachfront villa.
He is confused and more so when he receives a phone call from the Chief of Staff to go to the Gosh hospital urgently for a meeting.
He and Janet rush to the hospital where Dr. George Brown had summoned the other doctors. He is surprised to hear Dr. Brown say that a zombie visited him, he sedated him and placed him in Room Nine.
He had no name and he called him Number Nine.
The zombie told him that his Master was Zeeka and there were fifty others like him planning an attack on the hospital.
The mystery deepens when Number Nine disappears from the hospital.
Was he really a zombie?
Who is Zeeka and why does he want revenge?
Was the attack carried out?
Since this is the first book in the series all secrets are not revealed but will all be unveiled in Books 2 to 5.
Zeeka’s Child Book 2,
Zeeka Returns Book 3,
Zeeka’s Ghost Book 4,
Resurrection Book 5.
Reviewer:
“An intriguing start to a promising series.
I can even imagine this book as a good movie.”.
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Praise for this book
What I love about this first short story in the series is how, like King, the author has her characters Mark and Raynor going about their normal lives when eyes really start to play tricks on them, and the question is for us, dear readers, is positioned thus:-
Can we trust what we see with our own eyes, or is this a vision, hallucination, or some other mind trick being played on us by some evil entity?
Possibly the answer is yes to each element of that question.
Rather than being a full blown horror, this first story serves as a tasty morsel (I really shouldn't use such lines in a review about flesh eating zombies!) to what is to come. Who is the mysterious Zeeka? Why does he want revenge? Not everything is answered here, but will be in future stories in the series. At its relatively short length, it is the perfect introduction to this author's writing, which I am seeing a great growth with each work she pens.
My favourite character is actually Detective Jack Wildy. There is so much that cold be done with this charcter, he reminds me of Jack Lord of Hawaii-5-0 (original, people!) fame.
This is an action packed novella that has several plot lines running, but at no time did I feel lost. Each character seamlessly interacted with others, and there's an interesting man hunt happening which will stretch resources of the said Detective to breaking point. Raynor's impending marriage to long-time love Janet might not happen after all.
"It is the perfect introduction to this author's writing."
These different plot lines keep you reading and keep you guessing. Despite its length, I did not read this book in one sitting. I wanted to absorb the cleverly interlinked plotlines. In fact, there's not a lot of the mysterious Zeeka of the title in this first story, and I think that's a clever decision by the author.