Great action adventure, the second in a series. I do not normally care for zombie stories, but let John Ringo have at it, and you can guarantee gratuitous death and destruction on a huge scale. Excellent tale with a zombie plague spreading across the earth. Former Australian soldier Steve Smith gets his small family out to sea in a boat. At thid point in the series, he is building Wolf Squadron, made up of boats manned by survivors, who start reclaiming other zombie-inhabited ships and boats while making contact with people buttoned up in Cheyenne Mountain. Ringo is big on action and big guns and this is quite an interesting take. ( )

Super exciting, funny (though darkly), and intense. One of the most bad-ass of characters ever created, and she, Faith, is only 13-years-old. Clearing cruise ships on the ocean while fighting zombies in close quarters is a bloody, dangerous, and exciting job! Faith is Ellen Ripley and Starbuck, plus an AMazon. So very cool.

Highly recommended! ( )

If you have to read just ONE zombie apocalypse series, Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is it! This is the 2nd book in the series and is just as good as the first. 98% of humanity is either dead or has been turned into 'zombies'; insane, flesh eating and mindless people. Technically not zombies, they aren't undead; ghouls would be a better description anyway, but that's a minor technicality. At this point in the series, the emphasis is no longer on survival. Steve 'Wolf' Smith and his family have rescued 100's of people from the Atlantic and are rescuing more as fast as they can. Now the emphasis turns toward rebuilding and maintaining a civilization and finding somewhere to make vaccine. This is fast paced military fiction. Its a little unrealistic, Steve and his family are all super-human, but this really isn't serious fiction. If you like this sort of book, its very well done. Better than 'I am Legend' and 'World War Z', by far. There are a few moments of 'are we doing the right thing?' but they are few. I'm interested to see where this goes, rebuilding civilization with so few people would be very difficult. ( )

Loved this one, too. Where the heck is Captain Wolf's wife, though? I'm still not believing in these young girls doing what they're doing, but it's a fun read, nonetheless. ( )

I hate zombie trash fiction. ( )