This was a fast paced easy read. When my daughter used to read Twilight and other vampire books I used to laugh thinking it was moronic. Then the zombie wave hit and I have to admit I got caught up in it. I only started back into reading about two years ago so I just judged everything and I think I still judge too much - in fact I know I do. Since this is a sci-fi based zombie novel I'll explain why I thought the vampire and zombie fascination troubled me. Honestly, I think that if aliens were w...

2.5 StarsColdbrook should have been an easy five star book for me... After all it is written by my favorite author of the last year, Tim Lebbon. It is a post apocalyptic zombie thriller which I always adore. Finally it is about the multiverse, which also happens to be my real world obsession. Unfortunately, all these amazing parts did not add up to be a great whole.As for being a horror novel, this is the weakest Lebbon fiction that I have read. There is little here to scare you or to gross you

** Edited as review is now live on Kendall Reviews! **Way back in 2015, my life was going through significant change. To take a minor step back, in 2013 I decided to really make a change. I switched sports. I was competing in shot put and as certain areas of my body broke down (mainly my elbow and wrist) I decided to make a 360 and I lost 100lbs and began to compete in the winter sport of bobsled. Throughout my time in sliding, reading was a constant anxiety reducer. I had a horrible coach and w...

3.5* This was pretty good, I got through it quick and it was a fun take on zombies but what the fuck was with the ending? rushed much?? I would've preferred things to be cleared up a bit more but overall it was enjoyable

THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT HAS CHANGED FOREVERTHE REASON IS COLDBROOKThe facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure and the only cure is genetic re...

Wow. I read this in a white heat over two days, as ravenous to know what was going to happen next as the undead hordes streaming through these pages were eager to bite their hapless victims ...The premise is prosaic: in a research laboratory under the Appalachian Mountains, known as Coldbrook, scientists have created a quantum portal to another world, another earth. Then one day what appears to be a human being shambles through from the other side. Except it is not human. Cue the swift descent o...

Interesting concept. Dragged all the way, though.

Reviewed on Adventures in Scifi PublishingSeeing my enthusiasm for this book’s kickbutt ending, a friend teased me: “you and your zombies.” Yes, I still love zombies, but the more I read them the more I need the story and characters to stand out and excel. Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon suits every tastebud of my zombie fettish, even sprinkling on a little bit of multi-dimensional warfare into its apocalyptic plate. Do you remember when the TV show Fringe expanded its horizon by opening up the multi-di...

This one started out strong and finished weak. By the time I was around 80% done with the book it sucked. I was expecting more from this book.

I've read a few zombie books, they frighten me in the same sort of way that roller-coasters do - I enjoy it but shake like a fool for twenty minutes afterwards and have the occasional issue with walking to the toilet on my own in the night for a couple of days.Coldbrook blew them all out of the water.As far as zombies go, Lebbon created the scariest ones I have encountered. Which is impressive because until now I would have replied to a statement like that with 'but surely a zombie is just a zom...

An alternate earth, seen through 'the breach' created deep in the ground of the Appalachians. In the Coldbrook facility, decades of experimentation finally pays off. The Eradicator provides an instant death to anything that enters the breach, maintaining safety protocols. A bipedal form approaches the breach and passes through unscathed. After all, it can't kill something that's already dead. As alarms blare and the facility goes into lockdown to prevent anything from escaping to the surface, Vi...

The author bio in the back mentions that the author has been lately working on screenplays for TV and film. It shows. Coldbrook seems like it was written to be adapted into a blockbuster film. Lebbon used to write original stories with complex character psychology and emotional depth. What we have here is just another zombie novel. Bringing quantum physics into it (barely) and calling them "furies" doesn't make it different. I wish him success with his current endeavors but I miss the old Tim.

Not just another zombie apocalypse story here. A different idea that follows through to the end. I enjoyed it a lot.

Two stars because the story was unique. I love me a good zombie movie/tv show/book and this had some pretty awesome twists and turns I didn't not expect and thoroughly enjoyed.What kept this from being a 3+ stars was that although the story was great, the characters were such a bloody drag! It's hard to root for a positive outcome when you kind of sort of hate everyone involved. This was 509 pages of following around a handful of characters that either really sucked or like Jayne, Sean, Marc and...

A great concept, combining particle-physics-based science fiction and zombie horror, that goes completely off the rails with a marvelously and most entertainingly inept execution. Author Tim Lebbon didn’t apparently bother to familiarize himself with American English, American culture or American geography before writing a novel set in America with mostly American characters. Both the narrative told from the perspective of American characters plus the actual dialogue of the American characters a...

It's like reading the script of a B-movie from the SyFy Channel. It reads fast, has a few unexpected twists and turns, and the characters are the usual ones to be found in a low-grade movie. That being said, I liked it. Don't read this expecting something new and ground-breaking in horror. Read it simply to be entertained.

Coldbrook, a research facility in the Appalachian mountains is filled with scientists from multiple disciplines attempting to do the impossible--create a breach within our reality and establish contact within the multiverse. A scifi tale of scientists trying to do something to see if they can, not thinking if they should. Like all humans when put to any task, they believe their preparations are enough to render the unknown safe, but quickly find out they are wrong. The author is trying to do a l...

Since it's October, I felt the need to add a horror story to my list. Enter "Coldbrook", a zombie entry, which happens to be my favorite monster genre. Coldbrook is the name of a scientist, who helped to design a facility to open into an alternate reality, or multi-verse. The team in this layered structure has studied the flora and fauna through an artificial opening. There is a protective high electrical field to protect anything living from entering our world that could be detrimental to our l...

This is a multi-verse sci-fi zombie apocalypse with enough human drama for a Lifetime movie. Lebbon has combined science, religion, and manifest destiny to create a jaw dropping villain. This is a must read if you like original works of zombie.

3.5 StarsLebbon successfully managed to make zombies feel fresh by bringing in a fascinating science fiction twist. Personally, I love when horror and science fiction mix and this was done very well here. I do generally enjoy zombie fiction, but I have grown a bit tired of tropes of the genre which can become a bit repetitive. However, this story felt different with the inclusion of the multiverse angle. I thought that the characters were well developed and overall enjoyed the story.