Zom-B Gladiator

Shan, Darren. Zom-B: Gladiator. 2014. 162p. ISBN 978-0-316-21407-0. FIC SHA on the library shelves.

Following B’s disturbing meeting with the Zom-B baby, she decided at the end of Zom-B: Baby to return to the Angels at Country Hall, and join Dr. Oystein in his fight against the evil Mr. Downing. B settles into the routine of inspecting buildings around the hall, and every time they discover humans they bring them back to the Hall so they can be safely removed from the city.

On one such encounter, B meets a mother and her young child. After the initial scare and much discussion, the angels and the mother decide to go back to the Hall, but B follows Cian to get a toy in one of the many abandoned toy stores around London. There they get separated, and B is captured by Barnes and Coley, American hunters B had a run in with in Zom-B City. This time B is captured, and turned over to the Board, a coterie of human villains who are bent on dominating what’s left of the world but in the meantime, for lack of a plan, like to entertain themselves by holding gladiator games.

B is pitted against combinations of zombies three to five times a day, and every fight exhausts B’s strength a little more. Caught in the cruel clutches of the Board and of Dan-Dan, a serial child murdered, will B continue to fight against all odds or will it become time for death?