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4.5
Rise of the Governor was easy to read and kept a good pace throught the entire book. The author, Robert Kirkman, has an excellent vocabulary, which I think helped keeping this book moving and enthralling. This is not merely a post-apocalyptic hack-and-slash. At this stage in the storyline, people are just figuring out what has happened and are unaware of any future resolution. One could easily relate to at least one aspect of each character, giving the reader the opportunity to think about how they would respond in the same scenarios. Glimpses of the darker sides of people developed, in believable progression, into what eventually motivates them from this point forward.I think that this book could have been joined with the follow-up, The Road to Woodbury, into one, large tome. I don't know if it should have been, but that adequately describes how the two fit nicely together. You could read either one in no particular oder and still be satisfied.Both books are definitely for mature audiences. But the mature content was not handled in a gratuitous manner - everything written was essential to the storyline.Reading this book on the Kindle was pleasant and the Kindle edition is Text to Speech enabled, so kudos to the publisher for that.
