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    Down the Road: The Fall of Austin (Book 3)

    By Bowie Ibarra

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    AN ALL NEW STAND ALONE NOVEL SET IN THE DOWN THE ROAD UNIVERSE!

    When the dead rise, the living must unite.

    Officer Mike Runyard of the Austin Police Department and his partner, Derek Tucker, are stuck in the middle of a city overrun with the living dead. With resources and luck running out, Runyard is flung into a fight for survival among the living, the dead, and a wave of criminals released from jail into the streets of central and south Austin.

    Meanwhile, the U.S. military fights to reclaim Texas, with failure meaning the complete loss of the capital, Austin. A military Humvee traveling down IH-35, headed into the zombie-ridden city, holds the key to a plan meant to turn the tide in the fight. It’s a simple plan, but it’s a plan that’s about to fail with devastating consequences...

    "Zombie apocalypse delivered like a punch."--Craig DiLouie, author of THE INFECTION

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPermuted Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2011
    ISBN9781934861905
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    Down the Road: The Fall of Austin (Book 3)
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    Bowie Ibarra

    Bowie Ibarra is the horror author of numerous books, including Down the Road. When he's not writing, Bowie teaches theatre arts. He currently lives in Texas with his wife and daughter.

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    • 2/5
      The problems I have with this story (comments may seem vague, but don’t want to have spoilers): George (main character) – Ibarra can’t seem to make up his mind to have a moral or an amoral lead character. There are times he helps people and risks himself to do so (e.g., the fellow teacher at his school) and other times his actions are too extreme for the situation (e.g., getting away from the road block where cops are ticketing people; no reason to do what he did to the cops – could have just sped away).Too many mistakes in the story, e.g., gets into (steals) military Humvee and is glad to see he does not need a key to start it. At end of this trip, he exits the cab and tosses the key to someone.Scenes/plotting do not segue well; e.g., I thought he was headed out of town to go see his family and then suddenly he is headed for his school. Good points: I read it in a day so I didn’t feel I wasted a lot of time. The ending was pretty good.
    • 2/5

      Six out of ten.

      One man tries to get home to his family during the middle of a zombie outbreak. On the way he has to deal with military roadblocks, thugs and of course, zombies.

      Quite typical zombie fare. Not the best but readable.

    • 3/5
      Down the Road: A Zombie Horror Story is Bowie Ibarra's first novel and is a respectable effort. The book follows George Zaragoza, a teacher, as he tries to make his way home through a zombie infested wasteland. Along the way he has to fight through zombies, FEMA road blocks, and other survivors. While the story keeps you interested and the book is well paced, it just lacks the moxie that some of the better zombie novels have. I'll start with the good in the book, which makes up most of it. First, Down the Road explores the possible role of FEMA in apocalyptic situation. It seems that FEMA in Down Road was heavily influenced by the reaction to Katrina. It also feeds into the heavy conspiracy theories that several of the characters have. I also like that the Ibarra never really gets into trying explain what caused the outbreak as generally it just bogs down the story and in many cases strains your suspension of disbelief. Instead Ibarra uses the characters speculation on what may have happened. Down the Road does several other things right. The action scenes are very well described and I, at times, could feel my heart rate rising. Now that is an indicator that the scenes are framed well. Another thing that I enjoyed was the description of how small towns and civilians reacted to the outbreak. I think that Ibarra portrays the small town "call the men to duty" defense down properly. There are also some very nice twists to the story that will throw you for loop, and maybe one of the best endings I have read in a zombie novel. Now the things that I didn't like so much. The first thing that jumps to mind is that the zombies, while Romero style, had no personality. In most zombie novels the zombies have some defining moment. Like in Kim Paffenroth's Dying to Live there are several and in Z.A Recht's Plague of the Dead when there is an outbreak at sea. Down the Road just never has that one moment where the true terror of a zombie plague shows through. I'm not against sex and romance in zombie horror, but the sex scenes in Down the Road did not seem to serve any other purpose in the story than just to have a sex scene. These scenes did not in anyway move the story forward or contribute anything meaningful to it either. The only thing it does show is how people hump like bunnies when faced with certain death. Nothing new there. Ibarra's writing style, while not bad, was not inspiring either. At times the story just seemed to jump from one thing directly to the next leaving the reader questioning why. I point the finger at the first sex scene as an example. Overall, though, for a first novel the writing is pretty good. So, where do I stand on Down the Road? Well, it's an entertaining read with an interesting main character and does introduce some new elements to the zombie genre but lacks the character of some of the better zombie books. However, if you are a zombie fan this a good read and should not disappoint too many.