The same is true for zombie horror, and The Lazarus Impact is of the latter sort. Come on, how many stories about swords, wizards, elves, and orcs can there be? As it turns out, quite a lot, and much of it garbage, but some of it enriching, inventive, and entertaining. Yet as with any genre or topic, there will be excellent representations as well as shoddy efforts. After all, how much undead and apocalypse can we take, with Dawn of the Dead, World War Z, Warm Bodies, The Walking Dead, Cell, Dead of Night, City of the Dead, Zone One: A Novel, I Am Legend (OK, those creatures are more like vampires, but I’m counting it), The Road, and countless others. With this zombie apocalyptic novel, Todarello delivers a wild ride that is richly entertaining, surprisingly funny, and deeply thought provoking.īut hasn’t zombie horror run its corpse, I mean course? Hasn’t apocalyptic SF been done to death? Well, some may think so. I’m not much of a horror fan, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this book, even though I knew it had something to do with flesh-eating zombies, desperate survivors, and lots of blood. He promises to return to his complex fantasy myth in the near future, but for now, he’s cutting his literary teeth on gritty SF realism, exploring new narrative techniques, developing engaging characters, and letting more of his dark humor shine through. Check out this review of The Lazarus Impact from Professor David Hogsette, the same writing and English literature professor who reviewed Fifth Stone: LAUGHING IN THE FACE OF HORRORĪfter releasing his very first and quite successful entry into the world of mythopoeic fantasy literature with The Return of the Fifth Stone, Vincent Todarello returns to the literary scene in a surprising and rather shocking splattering of flesh, carnage, and mayhem with The Lazarus Impact.

The Lazarus Impact by Vincent Todarello