World War Moo Review

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I expected World War Moo by Michael Logan to be a sort of silly parody of apocalypse novels involving zombies and hoped it would have the dubious honor of being my first certified crazy review. The book is a sequel to a novel called Apocalypse Cow that’s premise involves zombie cows causing an apocalypse. The sequel deals with the after math of the zombie infection spreading to humans and pretty much every other living thing in Britain. Sadly, the book wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be, instead of laughing at the ridiculousness throughout I stopped reading on page 89(of 308).

The biggest reason for leaving the book incomplete is that the head hopping was ridiculous, there’s a new point of view literally every chapter , as a result by page 89 I still didn’t know who the main character was . In a disaster movie this sort of approach works just fine since a movie is only two hours and honestly most people go to those sorts of movies to watch monuments blow up more than anything, but in a 300-page book head hopping so often bogs down the story and is simply annoying.

The author slowed the story even more by having characters go on “humorous” tangents that went nowhere. To illustrate why I didn’t like them here’s a tangent on why a political figure should shave their mustache from page 45-46:

“You need to lose the moustache” she’d said in her post-interview debrief. “It makes you look like a mad dictator. You do know you pet it when you’re nervous, don’t you? You look like a Bond Villain stroking his cat “

“Oh, Come on. It’s just a bit of hair.”

“No, it’s a symbol of all that is dark, cruel and twisted in Mankind. Think about all the evil leaders with moustaches. Hitler being the obvious one.”

“Mine isn’t a toothbrush moustache though is it?”

“You’re right. It’s more like a dental floss moustache. Still has to go.”

This conversation goes on for another 100 words before the book finally gets back to the plot and there are severally more like it throughout the pages I read.

Finally the last thing that really bothered me about the book was that pop culture references were everywhere. Like mos

t things such references are fine in small doses, but this books had way too many and they started to grate on me after a while, especially when the references distracted from the actual story being told.

Not all of it was completely terrible, there were a couple characters I liked (and wished were the main characters), but they simply didn’t get enough screen time to salvage the book for me. I even chuckled a few times before the jokes got incredibly stale, but again there weren’t enough to make me want to finish the book. Without a doubt, World War Moo by Michael Logan is bad certified.