A Town Called Dust: The Territory 1, by Justin Woolley
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A Town Called Dust: The Territory 1, by Justin Woolley
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Stranded in the desert, the last of mankind is kept safe by a large border fence ... Until the fence falls. Squid is a young orphan living under the oppressive rule of his uncle in the outskirts of the Territory. Lynn is a headstrong girl with an influential father who has spent her entire life within the walled city of Alice. When the border fence is breached, the Territory is invaded by the largest horde of undead ghouls seen in two hundred years. Squid is soon conscripted into the Diggers-the armed forces of the Territory. And after Lynn finds herself at odds with the Territory's powerful church, she too escapes to join the Diggers. Together Squid and Lynn form an unlikely friendship as they march to battle against the ghouls. Their journey will take them further than they ever imagined, leading them closer to discovering secrets about themselves, their world, and a conspiracy that may spell the end of the Territory as they know it.
A Town Called Dust: The Territory 1, by Justin Woolley- Amazon Sales Rank: #1860532 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .68" w x 5.98" l, .98 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 302 pages
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Not to be missed, best Zombie story I've read in a long time! By Mandy Rosko I will admit that I didn't think I was going to get too much when I was offered the chance to read a book about zombies. Don't get me wrong, I love zombies and they have to be one of my favorite monsters, even though I'm nowhere near caught up on watching The Walking Dead.I guess it's just that, after a while, you know what to expect. You've basically seen it all. Zombie stories are about survival, and are more about the people trying to survive the zombies than the actual zombies because, well, they're zombies. They have no motivation to kill, no hatred, and no fear. They don't even scream in pain when you cut their arms off or whatever like a good old human slasher might.So anyway, this book was offered to me as a free read in exchange for a review. It took me a while to get to because of an enormous TBR pile, and to be honest, I wasn't feeling in the mood for it anyway.Literally, in the first couple of pages, I was hooked. The writing itself pulled me in, along with learning about Squid and his life on a dirt farm, and then having to find out what a dirt farm even was and why they were important to surviving in the territory.It wasn't even just that. Be warned that there are so many things that are different about these zombies and this world that I might end up spoiling things I didn't realize were meant to be spoilers. I'll try not to do that, but if you don't want to read on and get spoiled, just know that I still give this book 5 stars.Anyway, one of the sort of spoilers is the way these zombies act. They're not shuffling around calling out for brains, though they do shuffle a bit in the beginning. They're searching for moisture. Any moisture, and that tends to mean humans. Their saliva, their eyes, and their blood and skin. The zombies eat these things not because of a "need to feed" like you'd hear in Resident Evil, but because they're so dry and dead that if you cut their arms and legs off, the fallen limbs might turn into part of the red dust of the land.Of course, they get faster as they've eaten, which makes sense since their limbs would be a little more fluid, I suppose.I was up hours past the time when I should've been sleeping trying to read as much as possible. The world building was also wonderful. It was like a teen dystopian set on the backdrop of political and religious corruption.Speaking out against the church is cause for exile or execution, and the church is very powerful in this book. It's not the same as Catholicism, there wasn't anything as obvious as that, but you could definitely see the similarities with any large religious organization that gets too big and powerful as to think itself above the law and above any morality but its own. This seems to be more of a church that preaches how the sins of the father are to be visited on the son. So not a lot of forgiveness here. It also has something to do with how they believe their ancestors caused the plague of "ghouls" to visit them in the first place.Then there are the "Diggers." These guys were my favorites. They were like the knights of this book. I assume they are called diggers because everything is dust, and the ghouls themselves can turn into dust if they're dry enough, but either way, the way they fought on horseback, trained and made friends with each other (or enemies) was awesome. There was one character in particular who I nearly cried for when he went, though I won't say who it was ;_;The Diggers don't usually fight such enormous hordes, but when the gate that keeps them all out breaks down in one spot, it allows the horde inside of the territory, and now they were picking off small towns on their way to the capital, so the Diggers must get ready to march.So many awesome things to say about this book. Squid is intelligent and pushed around by his aunt and uncle (and I love that trope), something of a coward though, but he has lots of time to grow, and Lynn is a wealthy girl from the capital on the hunt for vengence against the people who killed her father, and will do anything to avoid joining the Sisters, whom she openly hates. This is something that puts her in danger several times since blaspheming is such a sin to them. Then there's Max, who is a pleasant surprise and an apprentice in training, and a good friend to Squid when they meet.I bought the second book in the series immediately after finishing this one. Can't wait to get to it. This is a zombie story to really watch. I'd recommend this one for sure.5 Stars
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A tad long-winded but interesting... By Lynxie A Town called Dust: The Territory 1, is a long-winded, Dystopian-esque, Young Adult, zombie adventure story that is accessible to just about any audience.Let me unpack that sentence for you.Young Adult: The protagonist, Squid is a young boy (aged 15-16) and the other primary character is Lynnette who also happens to be the same age. One thing that doesn't happen (that seems to happen in a lot of YA/Dystopian stories these days) is a love triangle. Or really, romance of any sort. This was refreshing.Dystopian: Squid is being raised by his Uncle and Aunt on a dirt farm (yes you read that right) in the red, barren Australian outback in the general area of Alice Springs/Central Australia (I am assuming this based on some of the names in the story). Except, this version of Australia is overrun with ghouls (dried out strobe-moving creatures that thirst to ingest your bodily fluids) and it is jointly run by a parliament of sorts, and the Church (but not our church). These institutions run the world with an iron fist and the consequences of breaking their rules are quite harsh. This of course is a perfect setting for a dystopian story.Zombie: As I breifly mentioned above, the ghouls are, for all intents and purposes, zombies. Their mannerisms are not all that different from your usual type of zombie. But there is one real difference. Instead of eating brains, these ghouls thirst for liquid because of their perpetual dryness. Their skin flakes off as they move about in the big red outback.Adventure: Well of course, Squid and Lynnette end up having an adventure. That's pretty much agiven.Long-winded: Probably the only real negative point for this book is the length of time it takes to see some real action. A great deal of the book is spent in one of two locations. Dust, where Squid's Uncle's dirt farm is, or the walled city of Alice, the major 'town' that Lynnette lives in. There isn't a lot of movement other than that.The world building was great. The reader is given plenty of opportunity to get to know the ghouls, the protagonist and main characters, Dust, the city of Alice, the Church, the Ambassador who heads the parliament... pretty much everyone. This is where we could probably do with a little bit of a cull. Some of this comes across as being a bit stuck in the minutiae and really could be left to the readers imagination.I knocked one star off for that.The second star was dropped off because the villans aren't really villans. What I mean here, is that they aren't dark enough. This could be because of the Young Adult genre, but I've read far more 'evil/bad/crazy' villans in other YA work. The villan/s fell a bit flat for me in A Town Called Dust.Overall, I think the book is accessible to all readers, with parental guidance recommended for younger readers because of the violence that crops up from time to time.**Note: I was provided an electronic copy of this book in return for an honest review**
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. By telling a bloody good story. As a writer By Layne flint When it comes to art and literature I am not much a fan of three things: Genre, market comparison, and rating systems, oh and there is, or was until now, a forth – zombies. But every now and then a young writer comes along and innocently tap dances through the mire of industry expectation to plug straight into the every age adventurous spirit. How did he achieve this? By telling a bloody good story.As a writer, editor, and reader of about fifty books a year, I read this effort so fast. At times I found myself noting certain grammatical placements and usages that could have done with some extra work or thought, but in the end I just went along for the ride because the writer gave me enough trust that he would, and is in the end committed to delivering the goods to the best of his ability.Now there are lots of five star ratings so far for this book and I have no doubt they are all well intentioned. As said, I myself do not like the labelling system, but unfortunately Amazon will not allow my review without a rigid counting of stars for you the user to consume from.I give this writer five stars for effort, but it is not a completed five star novel for me; in light of so many great masterpieces that would be ridiculous. Although very entertaining I rate this work 3 stars with the knowing that some time in the future this writer will most definitely earn his five.The market place seems to love a zombie because for many reasons it fits into an easy sell basket with futuristic legs.Genre aside, if you are entertaining thoughts of exploiting the role of the zombie inside and outside of the human condition. Watch what Justin Woolley is doing with it first.
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