Clickers II: The Next Wave
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The first wave was just the beginning….
The United States is in ruins. It has just suffered one of the worst hurricanes in history; the people are demoralized, and the president is a religious fanatic. Then things get really bad – the Clickers return.
Thousands of the monsters swarm across the entire nation and march inland, slaughtering anyone and anything they come across. But this time, the Clickers aren’t blindly rushing onto land – they are being led by an intelligence older than civilization itself. A force that wants to take dry land away from mammals. Those left alive soon realize that they must do everything and anything they can to protect humanity – no matter the cost. This isn’t war; this is extermination.
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S. J. Belz –
A worthy sequel!
Just finished Clickers II: The Next Wave and I was very impressed with the story all-around. I feel its strength lies in the B-story of the book. A religious president slowly being claimed by insanity, seems like a tactic that King would use.Summary: So it is about a decade later after the events of Phillipsport, ME. We learn about the government doing its best to cover up the incident through various newspaper clippings. Then we are thrust to present day where a large hurricane is baffling meteorologists with its trajectory. Then the Clickers strike. Following the rules of a sequel, the Clickers are bigger, badder, and more pissed off. They strike at various points of the Eastern Seaboard. We meet the White House Cabinet and President Tyler. Tyler sees this as his opportunity to set the country onto the path of being Saved. The Clickers raise hell and are followed by The Dark Ones who are seeking revenge for being hunted by the military back in Phillipsport. Amongst the war breaking out is Colonel Livingston. He quickly takes control of the battle and he soon finds himself fighting a two-sided war. On one side are the deadly Clickers and the Dark Ones, but also a civil war between the followers of President Tyler.This book is very character driven. The favorite of mine is President Tyler. He becomes unpredictable in his stead-fast plan to Save the country. The reader quickly grows to hate him and hence why I love him. His character evokes the most emotion out of all of the cast. Rick Sychek returns with his woeful tale of living underground from threat of government assassination. We learn that things did not turn out all that great for the survivors of Phillipsport. There are other characters that I enjoyed. Colonel Livingston started to become too cliched for my taste. Either way this is a great sequel and I cannot wait for Clickers III to be made available onto Kindle.The best news of all is that Clickers vs. Zombies is currently in the works by both of the great authors.
Stephen Kozeniewski –
The original CLICKERS was an excellent, intimate little story
Yowza! What an upgrade! The original CLICKERS was an excellent, intimate little story. You know, boy meets girl, girl gets head swallowed whole by giant lizard monster, pretty standard stuff. CLICKERS II ups the stakes, ups the ante, ups the characters, ups the gore – it takes just about everything to the next level.At first I wasn’t sure if this would be the sort of sequel where a whole new cast of characters steps in to replace the original crew, with the exception of maybe a cameo. A lot of movies, B-movies especially (and the CLICKERS series is definitely the prose form of a B-movie series) end up that way. But I turned out to be wrong. The cast was just bigger, but all of the survivors of the original were woven into the fabric of the story, more or less organically. There were a few coincidental meetings that made me roll my eyes, but, you know, suspension of disbelief and all that. And, besides, once the main crew stopped beating their four or five individual paths and came together, the story really started to gel.Taking place in 2006, Keene and Gonzalez present us with a George W. Bush analogue in President Tyler, a religious nut who seems harmless until the s*** hits the fan and decisions need to be made. I enjoyed the political satire quite a bit. It could have been handled with a little bit of a defter touch, but in a gonzo horror novel I guess that’s not the greatest crime.A little more irritating to me personally was how the military is portrayed. I know, they say doctors shouldn’t watch medical dramas, etc., but I reached a point where I couldn’t just go with the flow. I was willing to give a pass on a retired O-6 bossing the Secretary of Defense around and some oddball stuff like that, but when people were assigned ranks like “Chief Lieutenant” and somebody declared a CNN broadcast to be a mandatory briefing and called a bunch of marines “soldiers” I was just shaking my head. Then again, though, this is part of Keene’s 13 universe, so maybe CLICKERS II takes place on a level where all of that is perfectly reasonable. Yes. I’ve chosen to decide to believe that.Aaaaanyway, some little technical details aside (YMMV, of course, and I assume the marine biologists in the crowd will have a whole other perspective) and some editing issues, this is a really killer book. There’s some personal, claustrophobic horror, and there’s major devastation and even a civil war. This is a gripping, exciting book. Oh, and my chief complaint about the last book, which was that The Dark Ones felt like an afterthought and a distraction, was completely reversed this outing. I thought they were excellently integrated into the whole, and got a chance to not only be a coherent part of the universe but to be genuinely terrifying in their own right. The addition of a Dark One character may have had a little something to do with that.In any case, if you liked the first CLICKERS even a little bit, you’ll definitely want to pick up the sequel, and to be honest, if this is where you’re jumping into the series, you’ll probably be fine, too. Now I’m off to complete the trilogy!
moof3r –
Clicker Carnage continues
In the second installment of the Clickers series, J.F. Gonzalez is joined by Brian Keene, and all mayhem breaks loose. The U.S. has suffered a gigantic hurricane, and what could be even worse? That same hurricane is driving the Clickers species back on land to once again attack the human race. The president is an insane religious fanatic that doesn’t believe the U.S. is coming under attack from crab/scorpion like creatures, and is completely oblivious to the needs of his fellow Americans. The Clickers though are being led on land by a force unseen, and their intentions are clear : take over the land of Americans for their own, by any means necessary. The gory horror continues with the second book in the series, and definitely does not disappoint one bit. Fast paced and page turning, this is a must for horror fans!
Buckeye Nick –
Why didn’t they listen?
This was an awesome followup to the great homage to B movie horror Clickers this time around we have some of the survivors of the Phillisport disaster come back into the fold only this time the threat is not only the giant crustaceans and their lizard men masters oh no, this time we have a crazy over religious president who is as scary as the monsters themselves. This was a collaboration between two of my favorite authors and I love the fact that Deadite brought this back to print since it was so hard to find on the secondary market. I highly recommend this great paced and highly action filled sequel and look forward to reading the rest of the Clicker anthology.
Shaun Lawton –
Following on from first book, this is set a few months afterwards, which was a bit of a let down (there’s a few flashbacks and comments) i would have love to have it expand more on it BUT, when the book gets going, it’s moves into high gear, Blood and guts everywhere as the war with the Clickers and Dark ones start to invade the mainlandIf you read the first book, pick this one up
Petegrinder13 –
Gonzalez and Keene make a great team. As good as the first and I will be starting the third book soon!