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American Recovery (Living With the Dead Book 6) Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date14 Mar. 2013
- File size1.4 MB
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- ASIN : B00BUFF0OU
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- Publication date : 14 Mar. 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 1.4 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 333 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 6 of 7 : Living With the Dead
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About the author

My name is Joshua Guess. I used to have one of those impersonal third-person biographies here. I thought it would be a nice change of pace to just say hello and tell you a bit about myself.
Let's see...I wrote Living With the Dead, which is probably how you found my author page. LWtD was a serialized tale set in the zombie apocalypse. It's a little different from most zombie fiction in that it's told in real time and in blog format. Which means that you got a literal day-by-day look into the lives of people working to survive and rebuild in a world destroyed by the dead.
In March of 2013 I went full-time as a novelist. Since then I have published three novels--Victim Zero, Dead Will Rise, and Next--and have many more planned for the near future. For more, check out my author website (which is a blog) at JoshuaGuess.com
That's my work, though. I want to share a little about me as well.
I'm an avid and voracious reader. I have been since I was a kid. One of the things that pushed me to write in the first place was a deep love of the art form. In LWtD and "Beautiful", you'll see a lot of my personality and interests coming through. I've had a lot of hobbies and I'm almost pathologically curious, which shows in my writing.
For example my character in LWtD, who is simply a fictional version of me, has skills that include: Martial arts (Aikido, Judo, and some sword training), training as an EMT, a nurse's aide, Fire/Rescue, Carpentry, and many others. His scope of knowledge is wide and random, from physics to history, horticulture to biology. All of that stuff is from real life. I'm a huge nerd, and I love to learn.
I'm a big fan of animals. My wife and I have three cats, two dogs, and a pair of ferrets. We're right across the road from a nature preserve, so we get all manner of winged fowl in our neighborhood, as well as deer wandering our streets. It's pretty neat to have nature walk so casually across our paths.
Pretty random, I know.
One thing that draws me to authors is reading or hearing them talk about the craft of writing. Too often, it seems, writers forget that in fiction the idea is to entertain. At least, that's what I hope to achieve. It isn't my intent to beat anyone over the head with my beliefs, but instead to provide a good reading experience and hopefully make people sit back and think while they enjoy.
It is also my goal to be as interactive and responsive as possible. Part of the reason I set up my author website as a blog (other than my lack of ability as a webmaster and unwillingness to overpay someone to build me a website at the moment) is because I love talking with readers. I'm thrilled to get emails from people that have checked out my work. I love reading reviews and responding to them, good or bad.
That's me in a few hundred words.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2014I loved everyone of the 7 books on this series. Not my usual read either but it was gripping even humorous in places. I was quite sad that its finished, but read there will be more in the not too distant future, looking forward to reading some more of Joshua Guess.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2013Theses books are always good , got my other half reading them aswel now , hope theses will become availed in paperback at some point
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2015Well written book. It kept me entertained throughout. I would recommend reading it.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2015Love this 7 book series!!
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2014Great series, a bit different,slightly too engrossed in his main characters depression for me BUT didn't really spoil it.
Also read follow ups which are highly enjoyable.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 March 2013Fantastic! Realistic, humanity's struggle amidst a Zombie apocalypse : so real and informative. 10 out of 10 for this author!
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- Jett CatReviewed in the United States on 30 April 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Still good as ever!
Love this series. I was amazed when i stumbled on the first set! I mean how brilliant, write as a person writing a blog during the zombie apoc! Publish as a record of events! Love it! Love the characters! Love everything, keep it up!
One of the better zombie series out there! And dear lord have I absorbed all level of them!
This account has it all! Zombies, survival, fights, questioning of morality.
I suppose what makes this series stand out is
1) the zombies evolve (so not for hard core zombie traditionalists)
2) the descriptions of the adaptations the survivors have to make to be safe and to eat
3)the personalized feel of all posters (self doubt, disagreements with eachother over structure of the compound, dealing with outsiders, learning to fight)
4) several groups that are well described including the mauraders, and bad guys in later books
These are just some of the things I really. It is a really immersive story, on occasion you want to rush to the compound/Haven and help them survive the next problem. The characters are just normal people in crazy circumstances, attempting to do the right thing and occasionaly failing miserably. But they persevere, and I keep reading.
- Jeff NashReviewed in the United States on 31 July 2013
4.0 out of 5 stars If you like zombie books - you'll love this series.
If you like zombie books - you'll love this series. Another great zombie series. Well written and engrossing. Excellent character development. An overall great read
- MariecabbitReviewed in the United States on 22 July 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked Max Brooke's book "World War Z, You'll probably like this series
A lot of books about the zombie apocalypse are nothing more than a list of bloody, gruesome ways to die. This series is about a group of people surviving.
Josh and his wife have turned their neighborhood into a small fortified city. It was written as a blog, a man sitting down at the end of the day to write about what he has done, is planning to do and his worries. The main character, Josh is based on the author and so are several other characters. Many other people in the book are based on real people. This series has kept me awake. I kept needing to read just one more blog entry.
In this book we find out about a group of people who have taken refuge in an underground shelter. They are beginning to move around and want to consolidate the surviving communities under their control.
I originally got the first 4 books when they were on sale free. I've enjoyed them so much, that I deleted the books from my library so I could buy them again and put money in the authors pocket. He needs to write more.
- White QueenReviewed in the United States on 11 August 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars LWtD: Sad but Excited!
I have now read the final(as yet released) collection of the LWtD blog, culminating three years of experience through the eyes of the writer in his fictional self in this alternate reality where the dead walk but aren't the only thing to fear.
Sadness is but brief, as I can now move on to not only his first novel set in the same world (see "Victim Zero") but also, and herein lies the Excited!!, a collaborative effort between Josh Guess and another of my favorite authors writing in the same genre of post-apocalyptic zombie fiction - James Cook! (doing the happy dance here, may you enjoy that little mental image... oh, wait, you don't know me. Hmmm... imagine me at about 135 with long nut brown hair and matching eyes that reflect my natural humour. Now I can be happy, hehehe.)
Back to the second book - check it out, and I think that I can safely say that even though it takes place in James' world of "Surviving the Dead," it most assuredly can be enjoyed as a stand-alone piece.
So, after having spent several weeks joyously immersed with Josh, his family and friends living in New Haven and beyond... I have a sneaky suspicion that I haven't seen the last of their tale. LWtD is a fantastic and almost eerily realistic look at a "what if?" scenario, and the manner of its presentation is refreshingly different.
Do I need to really say how much I recommend this book, and thus in essence the series as a whole? Yeah, I am a Master of the Obvious. READ!
Thanks, Josh.
- ItsatushyReviewed in the United States on 5 February 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars I am so involved with this series
I am ready to pack up and plead my case at the gates of new haven.
Guess takes post zombie apocalypse to a gritty and real level.
These stories are about human nature, real survival, interpersonal relationships, crisis management and hope.
You will not find Rambo, or and other inhuman zombie killing machine here. You will see real people with real problems struggling in a world that just happens to be over run with zombies.
This is a vast, real zombie world that is a pure joy to take part in.