All the Tommys in the World: A zombie thriller

By Javier Gombinsky

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9083128504
• ISBN13: 9789083128504
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Pigfarm Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A very different zombie book

I was approved to receive an ARC e-Galley of All the Tommys in the World from Pigfarm Press and NetGalley for review consideration. What follows below is my honest review, freely given. I rated this novel 3.5 stars. Zombies are near and dear to my horror loving heart, after the original mummy movie (not Fraser, even before him), zombies are what called me to the genre as a kid; scared me something fierce. I remember sitting on the couch, feet pulled off the floor for some reason, zombies are not mice after all, convinced that as long as I didn’t move until my parents came home from work, the zombies wouldn’t get me. I had just watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time, forever changed. Every shadow was a staggering corpse on it’s way to get me! Every creak in my century old house was the sound of a rotting body dragging itself closer and closer to my bedside! And I never said one word to my parents, because then they would have taken away the movies and the books, now wouldn’t they? This novel was an ode to zombies, in all their different forms, the author says so in the very back. He wanted to have a book that had them all in there. I can respect that, though I think having that note at the beginning may have done more good. See, while reading this book, you very quickly can tell there is a main plot, involving the cemetery town of Leatelranch. To me, everything about it caught my attention, drawing me in to what I was sure to be a grand reveal, a key to the whole reason for what was going on. To me, sadly, things also became very muddled. Random, odd happenings would spring up, sometimes they would have an explanation given later, most times not. Sometimes they would fade out, almost like they were forgotten about. The last fourth of the book I wasn’t sure if I would finish it, but I rarely dnf a book that late in the game, so I kept on. The author’s note cleared some of my confusion up, but not all, the story still has some flow issues, but I know what the vision was and if I had known going in I may have been able to read it differently. Maybe this is an indicator that I don’t much about zombies, newer zombies? Maybe it seemed muddled because I didn’t recognize them? I’m not sure now. But I did like what I consider the main story plot with the town Leatelranch.