 Okay, so, uh, Jesus Christ, zombie killer, book of John. That is the most colons I've seen in a title since Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War. But, I mean, the title says it all. This, you already know what this book is about. Lázaro, levántate y anda. Viva Jesús! Jesús, ha hecho un milagro. Muchas gracias. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So, I think you already know whether or not this book is going to appeal to you. It takes place 2,000 years ago in Judea while it's part of the Roman Empire, and a necromancer raises some zombies, and then a group of Jewish folks needs to kill all the zombies, and one of them is Jesus of Nazareth. He is not the main character. The main character is actually John, who I believe is supposed to be John the Apostle from the Bible. Because, you know, he's friends with Jesus, he hangs out in that area, yada yada. But, yeah, just based on that, I think you already know if this book appeals to you or not. You're going to either hear that and think, well, that sounds like fun. Let's check it out. Or you're going to hear it and think, that sounds really, really stupid. I'm staying far away from it. All that said, I do still want to go into a little more detail with a review here. You know, just go into critique about things it does well, things it does poorly. Because this story is a bit more serious than I first thought. You know, this isn't like a screwball comedy or anything. It does treat itself pretty serious. Kind of like Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, if you ever read that. You know, based on the title, it sounds really stupid and silly. And it kind of is. But it treats itself pretty seriously. And it works well in that regard. Whereas Jesus Christ, Zombie Killer, kind of does. Like, there are a few goofy bits. But for the most part, it is treating itself as a serious story. And so I feel it deserves real critique. So I'm not going to go into a lot of detail because I think you already know more or less what happens in this story. Like, you know, zombies come, humans fight them, people die along the way. It's super sad and stuff. I'm not going to go into super spoilers, but you get the gist of it. If you know anything about zombie stories, you know that. And I will also briefly mention that if you're a hardcore Christian, this may offend you. Because Jesus is not the Messiah here. If you're not a hardcore Christian, you'd probably be okay with that. But just felt the need to bring it up. Basically, the first issue I have is that this book starts with an extended prologue. So we have a character named Herodias, who is a little girl, and her parents drag her off to a temple of Morda, who is the god of death. And they're going to try and sacrifice her to bring her brother back to life. But the priestesses of Morda stop them and then take her away and they raise her to become a priestess slash necromancer. And that's how she learns how to use her powers and stuff. And I say that and I call it a prologue and you might think, okay, that's like 10 pages or 15 pages and then it's over, which is what I thought it would be too. But it actually keeps going for a while and winds up being like 40 pages before this bit's over. Because we also cover Herodias growing up and how she learns to use her powers, how she finds out exactly what zombies are and how they work and that sort of thing. And there's a bit more detail than we really needed here. So I was kind of thinking, okay, can we get going? And then when that's over, it moves to John and goes into his backstory where he is like a shepherd. But one day his village was attacked by Marauders and his wife died and then he couldn't cope with it so he became a drug addict afterwards. And that's also fine, but it also takes a little while and I'm thinking, okay, we're getting a little more detail than we really need here. I think this would be more effective if it just kind of gave us a few little bits of information in flashbacks. And then when that's over I'm thinking, okay, so we have the two main characters like the Protagonist and the Antagonist are together. Let's actually go into the story. But no, then we go to another character named Facilus. At least I think that's how I'm supposed to say it. And we go over her whole story. She's the wife of King Herod, or actually they call him Tetrarch Herod in the book. I believe that was his real title in real life because he was a real person. He was the leader of Judea. But a lot of times he's also called King Herod so I'm probably going to keep calling him that. But anyways, Facilus is his wife and they're having marital troubles and she wants children but he's infertile and he's also cheating on her. And there's just problems going on there. And hers, I'll admit, was even less interesting than the first two because the first two were at least kind of good whereas this one just feels like a necessary evil to get to the story. And finally, when Facilus' bit is done, all three storylines kind of come together and the actual story begins. And once that happens, things get a lot better. Like the story becomes much more quick-paced and much more fun and I'm just more interested in what was going on. But it took a while. That's the biggest issue with this book is it takes a while to get going because I got partway through Facilus' bit and then I just said, you know what, I'm not interested in this, I'm going to come back to it. And then I set the book aside, read the entirety of Del Torrequest and then came back to it and finally started reading it again. And yeah, once that happened, when I was able to take a quick break it got through it much quicker and it was much more enjoyable. But that opening bit is a bit of a slog. One problem that might seem kind of small but really isn't is how Herod, King Herod and Herodius, or Herodius, I'm not totally sure how to say it, the main villain of the story, their names are way too similar. And that's a bad idea in books in general because, you know, people can get confused easier. But in this case it's even worse because most of the time where Herod and Herodius are on screen, they're on screen together and they're talking with each other. So it'll be like, Herodius said that and then Herodius said that. Wait, did Herod say it or Herodius? Like it's easy to get them mixed up in your head. So, yeah, like I would say if you're going to have King Herod in here, that's fine and, you know, keep his name because he was a real person. But Herodius is a fictional character. You could have come up with a better name for her, I think. Like just one that's a little bit different. So it doesn't just literally contain Herod's name in there. It just, I don't know, it sounds like it's not a big deal but it was very annoying. Now, I will also say that I think the idea of fighting zombies in a time before modern technology is really cool, really fun idea and I've been wanting to see that for a while. Like I've been wanting to see like medieval knights fight zombies and stuff for a long time because without firearms and such, you're gonna have a much more difficult time breaking open the skulls of a couple hundred or a couple thousand walking corpses. It's gonna be difficult for you. And in fact, I've noticed that in a couple of zombie young adult stories that I've read, like specifically ones where adults turn into zombies and kids don't for whatever reason, like The Enemy and the Reigns. I've noticed in those they go to great lengths to try and get rid of firearms from the story or at least minimize firearms impact on the story because, you know, it's just a little bit more intense and a little bit more dangerous if they are not able to just shoot their way out of trouble. And so for that reason, I've really wanted to read something kind of like Jesus Christ's Zombie Killer for a while. And for the most part, that is what they do. You know, they fight zombies using stabs and knives and stuff, and that's really good. That's a lot of fun. But at the same time, they also use magic in the fight against zombies, and that kind of takes away from it, you know, like, because obviously magic does exist in this universe. That's how zombies are created with necromancy. And then there's another character who comes in who has this thing called the Light of Apollo and basically they can use that to like either send out beams of light and burn zombies or they can use it to sort of armor their friends so that basically if you get bitten by a zombie, you'll still, you know, get bitten and bleed and stuff, but you won't get infected and turn into one. So just, it winds up taking away from the story a little bit and so we lose out on that whole, okay, they're in an even more desperate situation without firearms. So I was a bit disappointed by that. It's not a huge deal admittedly because, you know, at the end of the day, it's a zombie story. You kind of know how this is going to go and there's only so many different ways that you can do it unless you do something really weird and different with it like the Reigns did. But nonetheless, it is, it was disappointing for me. Overall though, very fun book. I liked it. It was a lot of fun. And I do think that most of the issues that I had here, both the issues I brought up and some of the smaller ones, like for example, there's one or two grammatical errors here, which is a problem, but it's nothing too major. It's just like they forgot to put a space after the period at the end of a sentence and stuff like that. But anyways, I think another draft of the author going through would have fixed that, but she really wouldn't do that or at least wouldn't be able to do that because from what I've seen, Camille Picotte or Picote, I'm actually not totally sure how to say it, she is a Amazon self-published author. Like all of her stuff seems to just be independently done, which is great. I do want to help promote people like that whenever I can. And she actually hasn't been writing all that long, but she already has a bunch of books out. Like her Goodreads page has more than 30 entries on it. And I think what that means is because she's putting out multiple books a year, she doesn't really have time to focus too much on the quality of them. Like she's just pumping them out as quickly as she can and because it's self-published, there is a very short turnaround between finishing it and then getting it edited and put out. And I'm not trying to criticize her for this, I think that's actually very impressive because even if you're not the greatest writer in the world, which I want to specify, this is a fun book, I think she's a good writer, but even if you're not the greatest in the world, just being able to write that much is a very impressive skill, I think. Like, I believe it was Napoleon Bonaparte who said that quantity has a quality all its own and granted, he was talking about something different, but you know, either way, it's an impressive skill and so I think that the author just wouldn't be able to do another draft and really spend time on this book to make it as great as it could be and I don't know, I'm not really working towards a greater point with that, it's just an interesting observation I noted, but you know, yeah, Jesus Christ, Zombie Killer, Book of John is a pretty fun book and I think you should check it out if you get the chance. And of course, Vavictis, you are all the best. If you want to get your name on here and get early access to videos and vote on other video topics, then consider becoming a patron. If you don't feel like doing that, you can always just tip me on YouTube or become a channel member or even just like the video, comment on it and subscribe to my channel. 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