The second book in the Zom-B series. Waking up in an underground military complex, months after the zombie outbreak, B has no memory of the last few months. With no idea what has happened in the outside world, B is forced to focus on life underground. As B learns more about the zombies held in the...
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  • The Guilded Earlobe

    The Guilded Earlobe | 08 May 2013

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE AUDIOBOOK OF ZOM-B UNDERGROUND

     

    Note: Zom-B Underground is the 2nd Book in the series, and this review may contain spoilers for Book 1. You have been warned. And...

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  • YA big BOOKworm

    YA big BOOKworm | 25 May 2013

    B has become a zombie! Yet, she can still remember everything; she can still think. So what is she doing in a room full of zombies and leather clad killers? Then it hits her. Tyler, a black kid...

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  • City Book Review

    City Book Review | 10 April 2013

    Zom-B: Underground is a book for middle aged kids who are seasoned readers. The storyline is about this girl who survives the zombie apocalypse, only to be turned into a Zom head (which is a...

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  • Secondary English Reading

    Secondary English Reading | 08 April 2013

    If I was stranded on an island with no electronics, the only option I would have is to read books. My first choice would be a zombie book called Zom-B by Darren Shan; it’s a 12 book Series. I...

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  • Booklist

    Booklist | 03 April 2013

    Endings don't get more shocking than the final page of the series starter Zom-B (2012), namely spoiler alert the death-by-zombie of its main character. This sequel picks up six months later, as B...

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  • School Library Journal

    School Library Journal | 27 March 2013

    After the events that ended not only the first book but also her life, B Smith is surprised to wake up in the middle of a deadly fight between zombies and heavily armed figures. Thefigures turn...

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  • From The TBR Pile

    From The TBR Pile | 24 March 2013

    he first Zom-B book was a surprise for me. It was one of those books I ended up liking a lot more than I expected to. So, I was excited when my library got the audiobook for the second book in....

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  • Blurbage By Schizo Smiley

    Blurbage By Schizo Smiley | 24 February 2013

    For my book reviews, I’m combining two. The first two are the first two books in Darren Shan’s new Zom-B series. The first is entitled, appropriately, ‘Zom-B’ and its sequel is ‘Zom-B...

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  • Ms Yingling Reads

    Ms Yingling Reads | 14 March 2013

    After throwing Tylor to the zombies, B has been turned into one, and is being held at an undergroung military facility after coming back to some semblance of consciousness. There are revived...

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  • Blog Dangerous

    Blog Dangerous | 13 March 2013

    *SPOILER ALERT*

     

    Continuing on from Zom-B, the first book in the series, “Underground” offers a fascinating insight into the life (or unlife) and thoughts of a zombie.

     

    The first book...

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  • More Than Just Magic

    More Than Just Magic | 11 March 2013

    I am constantly amazed by how much content Darren Shan can fit into so few pages. Zom-B Underground comes in under 200 pages yet, once again, I feel as though I’ve been on this crazy, emotional...

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  • A Librarian’s Library

    A Librarian's Library | 06 March 2013

    **Disclaimer: If you have read Zom-B, this review will be spoiler free. But there are unavoidable spoilers for Zom-B. You have been warned.**

     

    My experience with Zom-B was an interesting...

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  • Gates’ Gazette

    Gates' Gazette | 01 March 2013

    Zom-B is a book about a girl who is one of the revitalizeds (zombies that regain consciousness) that experiment on the reviveds (idiot zombies). This is another series from Darren Shan, the same...

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  • Spantalian’s Book Reviews

    Spantalian's Book Reviews | 19 February 2013

    *WARNING* THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS!!

     

    o this book was not as good as the first. Yes its still gory (a zombie gets his head cut off but his head and body still work until his brain...

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  • Fiction State Of Mind

    Fiction State Of Mind | 18 February 2013

    In this second volume we learn what’s next for B after having her heart ripped out. B wakes in a windowless room surrounded by zombies. She can barely move and her limited vision can only take in...

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  • Ink Bitten

    Ink Bitten | 11 February 2013

    Judged By Cover: Second is the best~
    If you have seen my recent posts, you know that this is currently my favorite series on the market, I read these two books and I'm obsessed. I really like...

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  • TeenReads

    Teenreads | 07 February 2013

    Darren Shan's zombie horror series stars a butt-kicking, bull-headed girl in the vein of recent post-apocalyptic novel heroines like Katniss of The Hunger Games and Tris of Divergent --- except...

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  • Book Reporter

    Book Reporter | 07 February 2013

    Darren Shan's zombie horror series stars a butt-kicking, bull-headed girl in the vein of recent post-apocalyptic novel heroines like Katniss of The Hunger Games and Tris of Divergent --- except...

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  • Bookbitz

    Bookbitz | 02 February 2013

    B had a hard life and death certainly isn’t proving any easier. Raised by a violent racist father, plagued by moral uncertainties and in serious danger of failing to gain any GCSEs, a zombie...

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  • Into Geek

    Into Geek | 01 February 2013

    I'm going to try and write this review without giving spoilers to the first book, Zom-B, because I think that it's one of those books that you need to read without knowing what is going to...

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  • Pretty Deadly Reviews

    Pretty Deadly Reviews | 01 February 2013

    this series is one of the strangest and more interesting series I've discovered in a long while, and I really, really enjoyed the first one. The second one was even better.

     

    These novels are...

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  • Reviewer’s Digest

    Reviewer's Digest | 28 January 2013

    Darren Shan’s second instalment in the Zom-B series has just been released (sometime in January 2013), a long-awaited novel after the nasty little cliff-hanger Mr Shan thought would be funny to...

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  • Writing From The Tub

    Writing From The Tub | 28 January 2013

    I’ve been a long time fan of Darren Shan’s writing. I remember picking the first few titles from the Vampire’s Assistant series when I was at the beginning of my university days and devouring...

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  • The Book Gazer

    The Book Gazer | 22 January 2013

    Ehmm.. Zom-B: Underground was interesting, quite interesting! It didn't have the racial theme in there as much as Zom-B, and quite frankly it was a good thing. The racial aspect was very good in...

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  • The Herts Advertiser 24

    The Herts Advertiser 24 | 21 January 2013

    ZOMBIES are big at the moment, from the cult American TV show The Walking Dead to the soon-to-be released World War Z at the box office; it seems that we can’t get enough of walking,...

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  • Books And Writers JNR

    Books and Writers JNR | 19 January 2013

    B Smith is back, but this time as a zombie! Due to the events of the last book, B was turned into one of the living dead. Now she has woken up in a lab, as a zombie with a human consciousness She...

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  • So Many Books, So Little Time

    So Many Books, So Little Time | 16 January 2013

    SPOILER ALERT: Although I’ll try not to spoil anything, there may be the odd spoiler for Zom-B.

     

    I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading Zom-B so I couldn’t wait to get stuck in to...

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  • YA big BOOKworm!!

    YA big BOOKworm!! | 15 January 2013

    B has become a zombie! Yet, she can still remember everything; she can still think. So what is she doing in a room full of zombies and leather clad killers? Then it hits her. Tyler, a black kid...

    Read full review: YA big BOOKworm!!
  • Annan Academy English Department Blog

    Annan Academy English Department Blog | 14 January 2013

    At the end of Zom-B by Darren Shan events took an unexpected turn but in the sequel – Zom-B Underground - B isn’t going to let a little thing like having her heart ripped out and eaten stop her...

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  • What A Review!

    What A Review! | 13 January 2013

    Only read if you have read book 1, or read my other review

     

    I can’t think of a snappy title about this book! All I can think about is how amazing the Zom-B series is and its only on book 2...

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  • SFX

    SFX | 13 January 2013

    THE FIRST IN THIS 12-part teen zombie series had some laudable features: two killer twists about protagonist B, and a strong anti-racism subtext. This second entry isn’t quite as strong.

     

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  • Ficlov

    Ficlov | 12 January 2013

    Darren Shan is one of my all-time favourite authors, and I've grown up reading his Cirque du Freak and Demonata series. So, you can probably imagine how excited I was when he announced he was...

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  • Cheezyfeet Books

    Cheezyfeet Books | 11 January 2013

    Having read Zom-B and found it to just be okay, I wasn't sure what I was going to think of the sequel, Zom-B Underground. To be honest, I picked it up to read because it was the shortest book in...

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  • Terror-Tree

    Terror-Tree | 11 January 2013

    Darren Shan, successful children’s horror author, has launched this new zombie 12 part series for kids (and discerning adults). The first novel, Zom-B, starts in the Irish village of Palliskenry...

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  • Phoenix Grounds

    Phoenix Grounds | 10 January 2013

    If you haven't read the first book in this series, Zom-B, then what are you doing??? Go out and buy it.

     

    Here, I'll even be nice and give you a link - ...

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  • My Best Friends Are Books

    My Best Friends Are Books | 09 January 2013

    The first book in Darren Shan’s Zom-B series was an explosive book that introduced us to Darren’s zombie horde. Like many of Darren’s fans I’ve been eagerly awaiting the second book in the series...

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  • Books of Amber

    Books of Amber | 07 January 2013

    There will be spoilers from the first book, Zom-B, so please DO NOT read this review if you haven't read the first book. There are two twists in Zom-B that you honestly would never want spoiled,...

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  • Ashley Manning

    Ashley Manning | 05 January 2013

    Darren Shan has done it again. He’s taken a well-known, and loved, genre and recreated it. I’ve been waiting for Zom-B Underground, the second book in his zombie series, since I finished the...

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  • Empire Of Books

    Empire Of Books | 05 January 2013

    WARNING!!! If you have not read the first book in the series, Zom-B, then please do not read this review. There are some HUMONGOUS twists that you do not want spoiling. Trust me...

     

    5/5...

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  • The Bookbag

    The Bookbag | 04 January 2013

    Ok. Before we begin. If you haven't read the first book in this series, DON'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first book, read the first book itself, then come back....

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  • Book Expectations

    Book Expectations | 04 January 2013

    DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FIRST IN THE SERIES.

     

    B wakes up in an underground facility. There are different types of zombies and scientists are experimenting to try and...

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  • Young Adult Books Central

    Young Adult Books Central | 03 January 2013

    I'm loving this new series by Darren Shan. For teens who grew up with Cirque Du Freak, it is the perfect next step. The focus is on zombies rather than vampires, and it has just the right amount...

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  • Reading Junky’s Reading Roost

    Reading Junky's Reading Roost | 03 January 2013

    I'm loving this new series by Darren Shan. For teens who grew up with Cirque Du Freak, it is the perfect next step. The focus is on zombies rather than vampires, and it has just the right amount...

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  • The Book Zone

    The Book Zone | 28 December 2012

    WARNING: This review will contain spoilers for Zom-B, the first book in Darren Shan's new series. Seriously, if you have not yet read that book then you should click away from this review right...

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  • Starburst

    Starburst | 24 November 2012

    One of the perils of reading a multi-part series is the fear that it could fall to what the scientists are calling the Miracle Day effect. In effect, it’s where the series doesn’t have enough...

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