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Ex-Patriots: A Novel (Ex-Heroes) de Peter…
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Ex-Patriots: A Novel (Ex-Heroes) (edició 2013)

de Peter Clines (Autor)

Sèrie: Ex-Heroes (2)

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Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. HTML:

The second novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series.

It's been two years since the plague of ex-humans decimated mankind. Two years since the superheroes St. George, Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth gathered Los Angeles's survivors behind the walls of their fortress, the Mount.

Since then, the heroes have been fighting to give the Mount's citizens hope, and something like a real life. But now supplies are growing scarce, the zombies are pressing in . . . and the heroes are wondering how much longer they can hold out.

Then hope arrives in the form of a surviving US Army battalion--and not just any battalion. The men and women of the Army's Project Krypton survived the outbreak because they are super-soldiers, created before mankind's fall to be better, stronger, faster than normal humans--and their secure base in Arizona beckons as a much needed refuge for the beleaguered heroes and their charges.

But a dark secret lies at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it wield an awesome and terrifying power.

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Títol:Ex-Patriots: A Novel (Ex-Heroes)
Autors:Peter Clines (Autor)
Informació:Crown (2013), 432 pages
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It was okay. Barely a three. The series is barely holding on for me. Not sure I will read the next one. ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
I think I enjoyed the sequel to Ex-Heroes more than the first book. It’s more of the same - superheroes and zombies - but with a stronger plot and much more tension. Once again it’s really just a big bundle of comic book cliches, this time we have the addition of the super soldiers, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a really, ridiculously fun ride.

The plot is tense! I was really quite stressed out reading it for the most part! It was inevitable and obvious - as Zzzap says you can never trust the government in any zombie movie - but that made it worse when you had to watch the heroes walk into a trap. I was actually genuinely scared for them, which is something I never felt reading the first book! Over all the story was better, not only did the jeopardy feel more realistic, but there were some good twists. Of course the ending action scenes were just as bonkers, so fans won’t be disappointed there.

There were a couple of new additions whom I did like, despite Captain Freedom being so obviously modelled on Captain America! The Driver was a bit too two dimensional, and it would have been nice to have his role expanded. Stealth had more of role in this book, getting right into the action. She is so badass, I do love her! Danielle got a bit of character development which I did appreciate as she’s is only of my favourites, and its good to get her out of the suit a little bit - I mean I still want her kicking ass as Cerberus, but it’s good to know the woman inside it too.

It’s difficult to say much without spoilers, and really it’s just a trashy read so there isn’t a lot more than zombies + superheroes = still awesome!

I ordered Ex-Communication but I think I need a break from these, they get a bit testosterony! I’ll let Boyfriend get ahead of me (he’s obsessed, basically ripped Ex-Patriots out my hands as soon as I finished!). ( )
  ImagineAlice | May 8, 2023 |
10 word review: heroes and zombies again, I love smart & maniacal super villains ( )
  lmorganjr | Dec 21, 2020 |
I gave up at p. 160.

Clines is trying so, so hard to make characters that are Diverse and Representative, but in so doing is only highlighting his own internal biases all the more.

So we have Stealth, Female Character #1, incredibly beautiful, sick of being objectified--so she spends all of her time in a mask not using her real name because she's sick of men just falling in love with her all over the place. Yeah. OK. Do you know an incredibly beautiful woman in real life who is sick of being objectified? I'll bet you do. I know a lot of them. Do ANY of them SPEND THEIR LIVES IN MASKS? No. They don't. Why? Because as it turns out, Mr. Clines, being an "incredibly beautiful and intelligent woman who is sick of being objectified" is only part of a full personality. Other motivations, other feelings, and the need for basic fucking human interaction do come into play.

Same with Danielle. Oh good, she's a doctor! And she wears an enormous fighting soldier suit that makes her all but invicible! Go Dr. Ass-kicker! Except that she is a bundle of fainting terrified nerves whenever she is not in her suit. So Danielle gets to be the Girl Who is Very Smart But Still Fragile and Scared. And that's it. That's her entire personality.

But it was Captain Freedom who really did me in.

Captain Freedom, the Black Character. The character who is Motivated by Freedom Because His Great-Grandfather was A Slave. Can you come up with anything more offensively racist. I read about his back-story and his need to fight for Freedom everywhere because of the history of slavery in his family, and I saw the rest of the book laid out before me: Captain Freedom, fighting for the wrong side because they represent the old government of the US, the government who (formerly enslaved but then later) freed his great-grandfather, and who apparently has no mixed feelings or ambivalence due to the significant residual racism in the US since that time, but wait! This army he is fighting for! They have enslaved the superheroes! Then he will switch sides and join forces with St. George and Stealth, and they will win the day.

Nothing could make it clearer that Mr. Clines does not see people of colour or women as actual people than his insulting portrayal of them as one-dimensional cut-outs motivated by nothing more than some half-assed understanding of one part of their racialized or sexualized experience.

This isn't a book about zombies. It's a book for zombies. If you have a brain, don't waste your time. ( )
  andrea_mcd | Mar 10, 2020 |
Zombies and superheroes, what's not to love?

This was a very good addition to this series. I loved getting to see the Heroes team up together to take out more zombies and military dudes. The action was really intense and there were so many surprises this time around that I never saw coming. The dialogue, especially the stuff that came from Zzap, was hilarious.

I still loved the writing and story-telling here and I enjoyed getting to see glimpses into the "Then" lives of various characters. Dr. Sorensen's "Then" story was especially sad to me.

The final showdown was my favorite action of the whole book. Things were looking so intense and hopeless that I truly wondered if all of the Heroes would make it out, especially Cerberus. Legion is going to be one hellish enemy to deal with since he can control the zombies and knows where the Heroes and their survivors are, even if it will take a while to get to them. ( )
  Moore31 | Feb 25, 2018 |
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Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. HTML:

The second novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series.

It's been two years since the plague of ex-humans decimated mankind. Two years since the superheroes St. George, Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth gathered Los Angeles's survivors behind the walls of their fortress, the Mount.

Since then, the heroes have been fighting to give the Mount's citizens hope, and something like a real life. But now supplies are growing scarce, the zombies are pressing in . . . and the heroes are wondering how much longer they can hold out.

Then hope arrives in the form of a surviving US Army battalion--and not just any battalion. The men and women of the Army's Project Krypton survived the outbreak because they are super-soldiers, created before mankind's fall to be better, stronger, faster than normal humans--and their secure base in Arizona beckons as a much needed refuge for the beleaguered heroes and their charges.

But a dark secret lies at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it wield an awesome and terrifying power.

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