I must vanquish these abominable bugs! If I kill enough... I might get a hug from Master Winter! Oh, I can't wait!' Tooth and Nail starts with a disease that sweeps through the city with rapid pace, beginning as a virus with a high mortality rate, and morphing into a 'zombie' disease.

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I'm biased towards infected humans over the undead, both fast and slow ones, though novels with such antagonists are few and far between. This is one of them. As a new plague related to the rabies virus infects millions, America recalls its military forces from around the world to safeguard hospitals and other vital buildings. Many of the victims become rabid and violent but are easily controlled-that is, until so many are infected that they begin to run amok, spreading slaughter and disease. Lieutenant Todd Bowman got his unit through the horrors of combat in Iraq. Now he must lead his men across New York through a storm of violence to secure a research facility that may hold a cure. To succeed in this mission to help save what's left, the men of Charlie Company will face a terrifying battle of survival against the very people they have sworn to protect-people turned into a fearless, endless horde armed solely with tooth and nail. Journalist Jim Stevens from Knots and Crosses and non-Rebus book Watchman makes a cameo appearance, again basing off his status quo in Watchman. This particular book (1) terrified the hell out of me and (2) made me very glad I am no longer active duty. Then again, this book is about an Army battalion. For the record, the Marine unit took over Staten Island and killed everything. Oorah. The biggest issue for me though, was that for some reason the author decided to skip past chunks of story that, as an apocalyptic/horror/action fan, I would have liked to have read. He also chose to cut to different scenes pretty abruptly, deciding to wrap up the previous scene by telling the reader what happened instead of allowing us to "see" it for ourselves.OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Tooth and Nail from its blurb quintessentially seems to be a zombie military novel and whilst I went in with those thoughts, the actual book turned out to be a bit more than that. Craig DiLouie's Tooth & Nail is a zombie story filled with practically non-stop action and very realistic detail. It is obvious that DiLouie did his research before or while writing this novel. Tooth & Nail is very military focused and while I have a little bit of knowledge, I do not know a lot of the details of the military world. Therefore, I asked my husband as I was reading questions here and there about whether this would work, would they really do such and such and each time he affirmed that what I was reading was spot on. The military personal are very realistic and believable, there are no SUPERSOLDIERS who do extraordinary feats. They are simply men doing their job in a world that's gone to hell. I read this as an ESL teacher. I'm trying to find ways to help my students improve their vocabulary.

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Sunny killed a few more enemies, barely avoided a stream of acid that one of the monstrous insects spat, and retaliated by neatly severing its body in half. The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as when it was first newly published. Then, something strange happened. The veil of darkness enveloping the lower part of the slope suddenly flowed forward and drowned a large swath of Nightmare Creatures assaulting their defensive line from the flank. It seemed....... it seemed that the persistent corrosion, which the Cruel Sight had learned to reflect thanks to the Wormvine's miasma, turned out to be more powerful than Sunny had thought. Much more likely than that, though, was that it just happened to finish off the mighty abomination after it had been brought to the very edge of death by Sky Tide, but before she could deal the killing blow.

From a reader perspective....yeah. A bit less. Other reviewers have said that some of the writing is very awkward and weird, and it is. And I don't mean the "SAT word" sentences. Like, it's going to be hard to use academic vocabulary this much, you know? I expected some weirdness. But some of these sentences were just like, WEIRD. No one would talk like this, ever. Again--this isn't about using the big words. It's just.......wow these characters are unbelievable. The whole situation is pretty unbelieveable. The phrase “tooth and nail” is said to have originated from Sir Thomas More’s In A Dialogue of Comfort and Tribulation, published in 1535, where it is stated as; “They would fayne kepe them as long as euer they mighte, euen with tooth and nayle.” Oh, and the infected ARE the main threat here. The only one. None of that mohawk wearing, dirtbike raiding gang of accountants-turned-marauders nonsense we get to read in so many zombie novels.

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The writing is cumbersome and difficult to wade through, the tenses are not consistent, the dialogue is truncated and distant and the editing is nearly non-existent. Tooth and Nail features "infected", not "zombies", and the virus is a genetically altered mutation of the rabies virus. So not exactly zombies, but similar, though it reads like a true zombie book.At the same time, Soul Reaper Jet broke through the ranks of the hive and joined the crescent battle formation. As you read this mystery, you will encounter more than 1,300 words commonly found on the SAT, each one highlighted in boldface. The best part is, you'll remember the words better because you've learned each one in context, or in relation to the other words around it. And one thing the SAT will always test is your ability to comprehend what you read, and your knowledge of words in context. Did you ever imagine you could study for the SAT by reading a mystery novel? If that sounds like a better way to go, look inside. The Mad Dog angle and exponential rate of infection is a good one, as is the military rescue of the scientist who identified the Mad Dog strain and its methodology. Absent are the 2 biggest clichés of the genre: the ordinary folk turned zombie slayer at the blink of an eye; and 'zombies are not the biggest threat'. For a zombie-type book, it had enough of a different bent that it wasn't like just reading another self-published fanboy/fanfic piece focused on guns, gore, guts and rape scenes.