Published: March 27, 2011
Words: 14,764 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452438658

Short description

It should be easy to tell who the monsters are in the middle of a global zombie pandemic. The blank-eyed swarms of animated corpses who want to gnaw on your flesh are the obvious choice. The reality, though, is it’s not always that simple. I learned that less than a week after the outbreak started, and it was like getting hit in the head. In this case, literally.

Extended description

In the early days of the global zombie pandemic, Ellen Hale learns a brutal lesson. Sometimes the shambling animated corpses aren’t the worst thing that can happen to you. Sometimes the monsters are human, hiding their thirst for violence behind deceptively benign masks.
While trying to survive the hoards of zombies, Ellen is abducted by a band of marauders and subjected to abuse almost beyond her ability to endure. When she is rescued, she is broken both mentally and physically, and fears she could become a monster herself.
Living at The Compound with a growing band of survivors, she meets Quinn. He seems determined to help her, but he looks like everything she’d ever been taught to fear. How can she trust him, when someone who had appeared so harmless had subjected her to such sadistic horrors? How can she help the teenage captive who was rescued with her, and find her own place in this altered world?
Ellen’s story is one of deep despair and emotional chaos as .. (Read more) In the early days of the global zombie pandemic, Ellen Hale learns a brutal lesson. Sometimes the shambling animated corpses aren’t the worst thing that can happen to you. Sometimes the monsters are human, hiding their thirst for violence behind deceptively benign masks.
While trying to survive the hoards of zombies, Ellen is abducted by a band of marauders and subjected to abuse almost beyond her ability to endure. When she is rescued, she is broken both mentally and physically, and fears she could become a monster herself.
Living at The Compound with a growing band of survivors, she meets Quinn. He seems determined to help her, but he looks like everything she’d ever been taught to fear. How can she trust him, when someone who had appeared so harmless had subjected her to such sadistic horrors? How can she help the teenage captive who was rescued with her, and find her own place in this altered world?
Ellen’s story is one of deep despair and emotional chaos as she fights to regain some of what she’s lost. In the aftermath of captivity, amidst the constant threat of zombie attacks, she must find a way out of the darkness and set foot on the brighter path of hope.
Set in the world of Living With the Dead by Joshua Guess, Monsters Unmasked will make you question the nature of good and evil, monsters and saviors, and how we cope when our entire reality has been changed forever.
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Review by: Ingrid Foster on Jan. 30, 2012 :
When I first started reading Monsters Unmasked, I was expecting it to be just another zombie melodrama. Yes, I enjoy zombies and the like but this story was different, not at all what I expected. From the first page I was hooked on Whitman's tale about Ellen, her betrayal by someone she knew and a view into pandemic life that never in my wildest nightmares would occur to me. Still the strong, determined heroine didn't give up, she stayed true to herself and through her story I was reminded of the best in human nature.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Ingrid Foster on Jan. 30, 2012 :
When I first started reading Monsters Unmasked, I was expecting it to be just another zombie melodrama. Yes, I enjoy zombies and the like but this story was different, not at all what I expected. From the first page I was hooked on Whitman's tale about Ellen, her betrayal by someone she knew and a view into pandemic life that never in my wildest nightmares would occur to me. Still the strong, determined heroine didn't give up, she stayed true to herself and through her story I was reminded of the best in human nature.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Ingrid Foster on Jan. 30, 2012 : (no rating)
When I first started reading Monsters Unmasked, I was expecting it to be just another zombie melodrama. Yes, I enjoy zombies and the like but this story was different, not at all what I expected. From the first page I was hooked on Whitman's tale about Ellen, her betrayal by someone she knew and a view into pandemic life that never in my wildest nightmares would occur to me. Still the strong, determined heroine didn't give up, she stayed true to herself and through her story I was reminded of the best in human nature.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Scarlett Black on Jan. 14, 2012 :
Monsters Unmasked is amazing! A very different zombie story--instead of showing simply blood, guts and humans screaming--It gave a very human side to a zombie pandemic. The events, effects and what life would be like afterwards. From the very first paragraph, I was hooked and I didn't put it down until the end.
Lori Whitwam gave EVERY character a life, voice and story of their own. If you are looking for a great zombie/human story--this is the book for you!!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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