Dying Light - Nightmare Row

Good intro to Dying light and quick read. Helps fill in the gaps of the beginning of the game and a new look at the affected.

This book is amazing! I even went into the game to try to find nightmare row.

I really enjoyed the pace of the story, there was no filler in the book just to take up space. I did not want to put in down, and it was not a predictable zombie story either in my opinion. The only reason I did not give it a 5/5 is because there was very bad punctuation with the extreme over use of commas. There were multiple commas in almost every sentence which took away the immersion of the story at times, and it made me slightly angry too. I think someone needs to edit this book and re-publish it to Kindle format again. I do not think this is how Raymond Benson put it out, it seems like it was translated from English to another language, and then back to English from a non-native English speaker. I have read other novels from Raymond Benson, and his pseudonym of David Michaels, such as several Splinter Cell novels, and Artifact of Evil where the grammar and punctuation are perfect, so I know this did not come directly from him. This is still a good read as it is, but would be outstanding if the punctuation is fixed.

The most interesting zombie fiction I've read til now due to the peculiarity of the main character and the realistic cause and effect scenes.

That's certainly a great story, doesn't matter if you've played the game itself, you'll like it. Want a hardcover now)

I somewhat enjoyed Dying Light - Nightmare Row because I LOVE the game on which it is based. The story itself was fine--that would be the part I enjoyed, despite the heavy-handed foreshadowing. What put the damper on it for me was the... editing, I guess? I thought the book was written by someone for whom English was NOT their first language. I was shocked to find it was an American author who's been writing for decades.Let's see... Dying Light - Nightmare Row was originally written by an American author in what I assume was English, but published first in Polish (translated by a third-party, I again assume) in January 2015. They've just released the English version a little over a year later, and it's as if they had a Polish person translate it back into English instead of using the original manuscript.My problems with it:1) They used WAY too many commas, and so a lot of them are poorly placed. While it's not as bad as using no commas at all, it had the effect of jarring me out of the story constantly, and I had to re-read some sentences to make sense of them.2) Blatantly incorrect words that should have been caught in editing. Things like using "wretched" when they meant "retched", and "pleased" rather than "pleaded".3) It seems as if the author doesn't know the difference between "stallion" and "mare", that those words cannot be used interchangeably, and that they actually require gender-matching pronouns.4) The author has a habit of suddenly switching from using the protagonist's name, or pronouns like "she" or "her", to just calling her "the athlete". Again, this technique had a jarring effect, and was used so many times as to become tedious.I cannot recommend this short novel to anyone unless they are fan of the Dying Light video game, and even then ONLY if it's on sale. For the prices charged for the paperback and Kindle versions, they should have done a better editing job. If I was the author, I'd be embarrassed about how this book represented my writing skills. He's even written some other video game tie-in novels that I was previously interested in, but now? I don't know.

Great read. Love the game so I'm giving it five stars 👌

I got the kindle edition of this book and really enjoyed it. Zombie apocalypse books tend to run very similar, and that's a problem they all suffer from. However, I really liked the setting description, and the character development at the end! That was well done imo. One thing I have to really point out is that I never even knew there was a game of the same name. After I was done reading it, I watched a few YouTube walkthrough videos of the game, and I felt like it was exactly as I had already read. The scenery and plot and story were dead nuts on target to the game. Anyone who likes the game should really like the book.Well worth the buy and read!