It's very interesting to get both sides of the story. While Dwayne's perspective has me heartbroken and distressed, Maria's is filled with trepidation and horror. They complete each other.Ĭombining romance and terror is a great feat that is done impeccably in this novel. The relationship between them is established from the start and you can easily feel their connection. Their romance, kept secret because of their rank, is the perpetual undertone of the story. Maria's not alone at the core of this book, either, we also have Dwayne sweet, caring Dwayne is Maria's rock, as she is his. She's incredibly easy to root for and basically becomes a friend, someone you grow to care about throughout the story. The Last Bastion of the Living introduces us to Maria: a fierce, capable, transcendent protagonist who is perfectly flawed with fears and uncertainties that make her genuine. In all seriousness, I've come to not only expect, but to look forward to the exceptional characters who consistently breathe life, soul, and heart into Rhiannon's novels. Yes I know, the world I've come to know in As the World Dies has come to a close, but it's ok, because this completely new futuristic world, where zombies have evolved to fantastically creative proportions, is absolutely mind-blowing. I was told of an upcoming zombie novel she was writing: In my glass case of emotion, I was ecstatic, squealing with joy my worship was born. It was terrifying, it was heartbreaking, there were zombies - I was hers. Rhiannon and me, it was love at first sight. My god I can't even begin to tell you how much I LOVED it. She takes zombies to a whole new, unimaginable level, adds in some romance, intrigue, and - as usual - excellent characters! GAH. I'll wait til I read the finished product but I can promise you this is absolutely brilliant and like nothing you've read before. It's fascinating, definitely unique, and completely blew my mind. Rhiannon really outdid herself with this one. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Pre-review that I will leave here because I think it's epic Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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