Rating of 4.5.

Prepare to dive into a wacky, time travelling, zombie filled Marvel novel with Marsheila Rockwell’s fantastic tie-in book, The Hunger.

When a mysterious object falls to Earth, landing in New York city, it unleashes a wave of evil and despair as the world’s greatest heroes are turned into ravenous zombies determined to feast on all living flesh. As the zombified superheroes begin to spread out across the planet, turning or eating everything before them, only Doctor Strange can briefly retain his sanity to try and find a way to avert disaster, but despite his best efforts, his overwhelming hunger threatens all around him.

With no alternative, Doctor Strange is forced to turn to one of the few magic users left unaffected by the zombie outbreak, the librarian of the Sanctum Sanctorum, Zelma Stanton, who reluctantly takes up the burden and imprisons her zombified mentor. Despite her lack of experience, Zelma has access to all the magical knowledge and ancient artefacts in Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum, and she hopes to find some answer to the deadly chaos consuming her planet. But Zelma soon realises that even all the books in the Sanctum aren’t enough; if she wants to succeed, she’s going to need help.

Pulling together a ragtag team of survivors, including Runaway witch Nico Minoru, monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone and the living embodiment of insanity, Deadpool, Zelma hopes that together they can find a solution. But their plan to trap the zombies in a time loop backfires on them, thanks to antics of Deadpool, unsurprisingly. Now with time fracturing all around them, an evil magic threat unleashed, and the zombie horde still determined to eat everything, Zelma and her strange team need to find a way to reverse the damaged they caused while still saving the world. But is this group of survivors truly capable of stopping the flesh-eating nightmares waiting for them?

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Well, I found this to certainly be a novel.

I somewhat have mixed feelings over this novel, as I found it to have a fascinating concept, but somewhat flat characters. As I would read, I didn't really connect to any of these characters and felt like the story was being told to me, rather than being shown to me. Perhaps I'm not as much of a diehard Marvel fan as others, but I did not know any of the main characters in this book outside of Dr. Strange and Deadpool, so maybe this is better for Marvel fans who know the niche better. Of course most people know the typical Avengers and I'm certainly not unknowledgable in Marvel characters, but I kind of spent the story wondering why these characters were picked as protagonists. They're great characters, but I feel as if the writing didn't quite do them justice (I think Deadpool should've dropped some f-bombs for characterization).

Sometimes, the dialogue felt a bit flat as well, leading to me just turning pages to get to some action. Even then, it took a very long time (at least in my kindle) to get to the actual initiation of the time-loop and subsequent mess up. By the end of the story, I didn't really feel satisfied with what had happened, but that may just be a personal preference with time travel stories.

The beginning was a bit quick paced for me. I would've liked a more thorough sight of the start of the zombie infection, maybe a few shifting POVs to help show how *those* heroes are feeling as they eat flesh. How does Spider-Man, Captain America, or any of the heroes feel? I think it would've added a bit more depth to the horror (and quite frankly, this is more of just a general Marvel story instead of a horror novel, so I wouldn't portray it as such).

This story has the wackiness of a typical comic, but lacks some of the awareness and depth needed for just general readers or Marvel consumers. I found myself uninterested in these characters, detached from the story, and wondering what the purpose of this story was beyond being a very strung out story about finding yourself. But, I do give it stars for being a unique tale. Even if the characters were lacking, the world was cool and different than what you're used to. If you're into niche Marvel, then maybe check it out for your favorites!

Don't let my criticisms dissuade you from picking up this book if you are interested. Everyone's taste is different and maybe you'll enjoy the things I found hard to enjoy.

As always, happy reading!


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