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The setting of the small fictional southern California town of Castor is very vivid and part of the appeal.

Yes, there are crazy mutated zombies that grow together like giant spiders but the characters are the underrated tool in the RCT toolbox. RCT does a bang-up job getting to the fears and hopes of kids this age and is expressed in a fantastic scene where the kids end hiding for a night in the high school they were dreading going to at the end of the summer. I don't remember a zombie story focused on middle school-aged kids. One thing that separates Hissers (part 1) is how young the characters are. If you didn’t care about the characters it would just be a ball of mish-mash craziness.

These books are not high art, they are written for fun, from time to time the expert storytelling skill elevates moments to make this the novel equivalent of a b-movie that shows hints of the author's skill. Hissers 3 works all by itself but the trilogy but it is a character-based monster mash that balances a new take on zombies with familiar story beats that will give genre purists what they are looking for. This review is of the final book in this trilogy lets be honest I am selling you on the trilogy.

Zombies that meld together to become multi-limbed spider-like monsters is pretty fun stuff. I mean Thomas didn’t have to worry about the effects budget. I mean maybe now with CGI a movie could but the hissers themselves are nuts. Hissers on the other hand ejects the realism for gonzo over-the-top insanity but takes the zombie story and evolves it in a way that a novel can uniquely do. He has expanded it into a trilogy and all of them are entertaining but that first novel is savage. His early novel The Summer I died is a bloody classic that is a bit of a survivalist horror. Thomas if you are not familiar with is a San Diego author who I met hanging out at books events and author gatherings.

So I was ready to dive back into this story. The first Hissers is one I have thought about a couple of times since I read it. I didn’t want to know much as I was looking forward to reading it. Anthony and I talked about this novel quite a bit before he started his pass. I have known Ryan for a few years and Anthony are writing/podcast partners. I am going to admit to some natural bias.