The last book for me so far this month, and my 23rd of the year, is the sequel to Thomas Flower’s Island of the flesh eaters that I reviewed earlier this year.

City continues exactly where Island left off, detailing what was going on while the character from the first book, Mark, was off hunting for his sister.

Franco Hernandez, a dockhand, seemingly delirious and suffering from a fever after being attacked by the Captain of an otherwise abandoned ship, is rushed to a nearby hospital, but it isn’t long before he succumbs to his wounds and is declared officially dead.

As his body is on its way down to the morgue however, Franco rises from the dead and proceeds to attack others in the hospital - infecting them in the process...

And just like that, so the zombie apocalypse begins...

Before long, the whole city of Houston is in danger of being overrun. A handful of survivors band together to try and seek out some kind of escape, but as the army of the dead continues to grow, so too do their odds of survival start to stack up against them...

When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead shall walk the earth...

This was a great book, and a wonderful, nostalgic, short, sharp read  that is the perfect follow-up to Island of the flesh-eaters. Whilst that book could be described as ever so slightly derivative at times, City  stands out on its own and is the perfect tribute to zombie movies of the early eighties when this book is set. With shows like Stranger Things all the rage at the moment, the eighties have never been more popular and Thomas Flowers here perfectly encapsulates that with this, his latest novel in his Flesh-eaters series.

At the end of this book, that finishes on a real ‘wtf happens now’ moment, Flowers teases a third instalment, Empire of the flesh-eaters, and after reading this, I’m definitely looking forward to it and hope to see the characters from both these two first books finally meeting up.

Even if they don’t, the way this book ends, Empire promises to be every bit as epic.

Meanwhile, if you only read one zombie book this autumn, I for one recommend it be this one...