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Your New Reviews and Some of Mine

Your New Reviews and Some of Mine. You gave me, Andy Zach, some reviews of my books. And I just reviewed some books in the past month, too. So, let’s share.

I posted my most recent review the other day on Goodreads:

Your New Reviews and Some of Mine – The Eye of the World

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Your New Reviews

December 5, 2025

I first read this book in 1994, soon after it came out. I bought it because of the cover and the blurb. I thought it might be a clever knock-off of the Lord of the Rings.

Author Robert Jordan used some elements of that epic in the beginning of his story, but it is nothing like the Lord of the Rings–but it is still very good epic fantasy.

The book begins in a backwater town of Two Rivers, famous for sheep and tabac. Rand al’Thor, a sheepherder, and his two friends, Perrin ay’Barra, a blacksmith, and Mat Cauthon, a son of a horsetrader, have all been shadowed by a man in black, on a black horse. He then disappears.

That launches them into an adventure where they must flee their village for their safety and the village’s. But safety is the last thing they find.

In this fantasy world, time moves in a cycle, from Age to Age, repeating the same events from age to age. The cycle is dominated by the Dark One, imprisoned in his lair, and the Dragon, the hero for good. Creation is a pageant for the battle between good and evil to play out. Key personalities, like the Dragon, are reborn from Age to Age.

How the Dark One and the Dragon fit into these three boys’ lives is what this book is about.

Summary Blurb

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond’s Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of half-men, half beasts invade the village seeking their master’s enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al’Thor and his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.

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Your New Reviews and Some of Mine – My Undead Mother-in-law


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I got a new review! Someone likes Diane Newby.

Hannah Lawson

136 reviews

February 25, 2026

My Undead Mother-in-law by Andy Zach is a horror comedy that fully embraces its ridiculous premise and runs with it.

Diane Newby is technically a zombie, but that hasn’t stopped her from hosting church bake sales or cooking Sunday dinner. What has changed is her temper. With glowing red eyes, super strength, and zero patience for disrespect, she doesn’t take kindly to being treated like anything less than normal even if “normal” now includes smashing through walls when she’s annoyed.

As society struggles to adjust to the existence of zombies, a powerful criminal mastermind sees an opportunity to control them. The only problem? Zombies like Diane don’t exactly enjoy being controlled. What follows is chaos, divided loyalties, and plenty of over the top mayhem.

If you like your horror mixed heavily with satire and absurd humor, My Undead Mother-in-law delivers action, laughs, and just enough undead madness to keep things entertaining.

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My mother-in-law’s a zombie. And she has anger-management issues.

My mother-in-law, Diane Newby, zombified by accident. She still volunteers at her church bake sales and cooks pot roast for her daughter and son-in-law, Ron Yardley. What ticks her off is when people don’t treat her like a normal human being—with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed. And if she doesn’t get her own way, look out. She explodes and leaves broken plaster and body parts in her wake. Nothing stops her: not brick walls, the federal government, or middle-aged spread.

But the world’s most powerful criminal plans to control zombies. His only problem with zombies is that they have way too much free will. He has a solution for that. But will it work with Diane Newby?

The world divides into pro-zombie and anti-zombie factions. Battles break out everywhere. Which side will you take? Who will live and who will die?

You might not survive this book. But at least you’ll die laughing.

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New November Reviews For You – SciFi and Fantasy

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New November Reviews For You – SciFi and Fantasy – I just curated these for you. I’ll bet at least one of these books will appeal to you.

Here’s a review you’ll only find here, since the book is only on RoyalRoad.com, not Amazon or Goodreads.com. The good news is that the book is free!

Your August SciFi > In Enemy Hands

New November Reviews For You – Review #1

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My Review 4 of 5 stars

Andy Zach

Author 10 books

91 followers

November 21, 2023

Five-year-old Nadia has Hobson’s choice: become a slave to malevolent Elven Mage Morvilind and have him heal her dying brother; or have her brother die and become orphaned as the only remaining member of her family.

Nadia saves her brother’s life and begins arduous training as a thief for the mage. He sends her to get magical and historic artifacts for his collection. Her failure would mean her brother dies, as well as herself.

Then comes the greatest challenge of all–stealing a magical tablet from a billionaire. What’s worse, there’s another mysterious agent prowling around as well. And he has no shadow.

New November Reviews For You – Review #2

Get Your Zombie Turkeys Laughter
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S. Policar 4 of 5 stars

Author 24 books

135 followers

November 20, 2023

On to the good stuff! If you’ve seen Poultrtgeist: Night of the Chicken Dead or Thankskilling and liked them, you’ll LOVE this. The sarcasm is there, the humor is dark and twisted, and our killer Tom Turkey wakes up every day feeling great and ready to see who he can kill in the state of Illinois with his massive flock of wild and domesticated zombie turkeys.

I loved this book. The end is a bit predictable given the fact that it’s a series, but it’s definitely the predictable you’d expect from something like this. I think this book would make a great low-budget movie like the two I mentioned earlier; and let’s be realistic, thanksgiving is a pretty much open holiday in the book and movie business.

I give this book 4 of 5 Paws and I look forward to reading the rest of this series.

New November Reviews For You – Review #3

Andy Zach

Author 10 books

91 followers

November 17, 2023

I enjoyed The Big Easy novella enough that I was disappointed when it ended. But on the other hand, it didn’t seem to have the same stakes and tension the other novels in the series had. So I rated it as an Average, three-star apocalyptic fantasy.

I consider RPG novels as fantasies since they involve magic.

My rating scale:
5 stars = best of the genre, still selling after 50 years.
4 stars = above average for the genre
3 stars = average for the genre
2 stars = below average for the genre
1 star = execrable, not worth reading.

Finally, Your Fourth Review #4

Secret Supers in Space: The further adventures of disabled teen superheroes

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Andy Zack is my favorite author!

November 11, 2023

I met Andy Zack at ChambanaCon several years ago. I walked by his sales table looking for something to read in the hotel room. The title “Zombie Turkeys” caught my eye so I bought a copy. I read it and found him to be so interesting that I sought him out again and we talked about the setting of that book. He knew all the places that I knew and described them accurately. I then bought all his new books as they came out, and I am now one of his biggest fans! I hope he keeps writing because I brag about him to my friends and family, and I want to add to my Life After Life and Secret Supers collections! I’ll buy everything he ever writes!

Do you have any questions? Any books you want me to read and review? Let me know by clicking here.

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Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books and Reviews

Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books and Reviews. These are best books I’ve read and reviewed this month, or someone else’s opinion.

Here’s a review you’ll only find here, since the book is only on RoyalRoad.com, not Amazon or Goodreads.com. The good news is that the book is free!

Your August SciFi > In Enemy Hands

Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books – My Review #1

This is a mamoth series, of over 350 chapters released over the last two years. It’ll be published soon as multiple books.

The book blurb: The Butcher of Gadobhra

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Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and can only find work online in VR worlds. And it’s getting worse. The old internet is unusable and hacked to pieces. The new system needs AI to run things, but most of them are destroyed. Now everyone is scrambling to get into the GENESIS ENGINE, as it becomes the new global market place

Everyone wants a piece of the new game. The guilds are competing to be the first to find the dungeons and kill the biggest monster. The corporations are claiming land and putting in their online market places. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck.

Four friends find they are locked into five year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, and can’t go adventuring at all to gain money and buy their way to freedom. They don’t have many choices. They can work as a blacksmith, barmaid and shepherd for all those years….or they can cheat and find ways they can take advantage of the system.

When they give you a mop and not a sword, you have to find the loopholes and change the rules.

Get Your October SciFi – The Butcher of Gadobhra

My Review

This is the first book I’ve read by the Walrus King. It’s a classic RPG (Role Playing Game) set up: a dystopian world where the poor a placated by putting the in pods where they can spend all their time in a virtual game world.

A group of friends has played previous gaes and eavesdrops on a virtual conference about a new game from ‘The Genesis Engine. It’s more realistic than ever before, inseparable from reality. So the gamers all join together as some of the first players.

The company, Acme, rooks them by making it impossible to free lance and gain points. They have to work. The company has given the crazy strength and endurance and immunity to boredom and depression so they can work sixteen hours, sleep four, and be happy.

Most weapons are not allowed. Everything is stacked against them. But our intrepid band of gamers outschemes the schemers through sheer hard work.

You get the general idea of the characters and their approach in the first few chapters. They make steady progress, but hide it from the company.

Complexities ensue, as they get better and better at dungeon diving.

Highly recommended! Click here to start reading for free online.


Don’t miss this book or the series. 355 chapters, and he’s still writing.

Andy Zach
Author 10 books, 87 followers, October 31, 2023

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October 17, 2023

Fun Read. Andy’s take on Zombies is fresh, unique, and above all… entertaining. A group of zombies working for the US Government but not employed by the government get up to a lot of mischief taking out Crime Lords, more Crime Lords, and aliens. Who know that Zombies had hobbies like knitting and scrapbooking? The Korean adventure is a highlight of the story.

Brad Secrest

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Bodacious Creed: a Steampunk Zombie Western

The blurb:

U.S. Marshal James Creed has known loss, starting from the untimely death of his wife and daughter in a sudden fire. His work, chasing down and arresting outlaws across the Wild West, is all he has left to live for. Then one day, in 1876, the infamous killer Corwin Blake catches Creed by surprise and guns him down.

Creed awakes after a mysterious young woman resurrects him in a basement laboratory beneath a brothel. Half alive, Creed feels torn between his need for justice and his desire to fall back into the peace of death. Creed’s instincts drive him to protect the city of Santa Cruz, California, from the outlaws it harbors while searching for Blake.

He uncovers a secret criminal organization, likely protecting Blake, determined to use resurrection technology for its own ends. The former marshal, now faster, stronger, and a more deadly shot than ever before, must work with a brothel madam, a bounty hunter, and the remaining marshals to uncover the criminal syndicate before they can misuse the machines of rebirth and create more mindless zombies. Meanwhile, he must also stop Blake, before the outlaw kills the only people he cares about.

His own death can wait.

Your October SciFi Fantasy Review

After a slow start, this novel took off and I finished well-satisfied with it.

I didn’t care much for the characters at first, they seemed somewhat underdeveloped. Perhaps more backstory or flashbacks would have helped. But as they went through adventures together, you cared more and more about each.

I especially liked the last half of the book when author Jonathan Fesmire gave the villain’s point of view. This humanized them and made them seem more realistic.

I recommend this book for lovers of historical fiction and steampunk, mixed with magic and zombies.

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Then you have Zombie Detective

Where reporter Sam Melvin becomes an amateur detective specializing in zombies.

My Undead Mother-in-law


Next we have:

My Undead Mother-in-law

What happens when your mother-in-law becomes and unkillable zombie?

Get Your Latest Books
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Your August SciFi

Up next is Paranormal Privateers Click to listen

The zombies are sent around the world by Presidential decree to fight US enemies.

After that, you’ve got Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse

Following my Life After Life Chronicles, we go to my disabled teen superhero series, we have two audiobooks.

Secret Supers is available in Audible for free if you subscribe or if you’re from the United Kingdom.

The next book in the series is Villain’s Vacation, the second of my three Secret Supers books.

Get Your Latest Books
June Books
More May Books
Best 2023 May Books
Best 2023 April Books
Produce Your Audiobook
Your August SciFi

Finally, my third book, Secret Supers in Space, just came out this year!

Click here to get an autographed copy now.

Click here to get an ebook or paperback from Amazon.

For all free audiobooks, click here to get them from me.