This book is not your usual horror/thriller. More sci-fi/horror, and I'm here for it. I wish more books like this existed. The writing complimented the story very well.

I found this novel to be very amateur with a peculiar plot that didn't make sense. It was a very slow read that I almost didn't;'t finish. Overall, I would not reccomedn this book

This book had my interest for a little bit but after 100 pages or so. I lost the story and had no desire to finish it. Thanks to #netgalley for giving me the chance to read this.

All the Tommys in the World by Javier Gombinsky is a horror book that has a pretty interesting take on zombies. Lilith and Nate are horror YouTubers. A zombie outbreak happens in their hometown but it seems to be just the start of something big going on. This novel is set in a town that is based off the author's hometown, which I thought was really interesting! For me, the book had a really interesting plot idea, but I think that the time jumps in the chapters kind of threw me off. It was hard to keep up with WHEN we were in the story. I would have loved a bit more continuity in the story instead of it being so jumpy. It was just a bit much for me to keep up. But otherwise it was a great book!

A great idea, but poorly executed. I had high hopes for this book and was so disappointed I couldn't even finish it.

Kind of crazy and chaotic storyline that wasn’t really my thing. I hate to leave reviews like this but the book did nothing for me.

Nope, not my kind of book.
Thought this would be a bit more The Walking Dead” it is not. Reads somewhere between a juvenile YA book and a graphic comic book.
If you are a fan of comics , and have been hoping for a book rather than a series, you will probably like it.
Just not the kind of storyline I enjoy

So this book was really really confusing. We’ve got zombies with green blood, zombies with no heads, a zombie whisperer controlling the zombies with no heads, a pack of dogs hunting non-zombies and zombies with no heads, and a girl who’s not a zombie. We jump back and forth through time with the same characters and quite frankly it’s hard to follow. I think it has good bones but needs a good edit and the ending (if I understand it correctly) was completely out of character for the hero and didn’t make any sense....

I look forward to the author's next book, but this first foray into zombie fiction was not my cup of tea. While there was good descriptions, the plot wandered and was difficult to follow. I would not recommend this book to readers.

Lilith and Nathan are the two main characters in the story; All the Tommys in the World. For them zombie movies are a way of escapism. When a real zombie uprising, in the town of Newport, is thwarted the familiar looking ghouls are hiding somewhere.

The story has two parallel threads as one follows the story of Lilith as she fights a zombie that is in a way physically impossible and the makes her way back to the town of Leatelrench which boast the largest cemetery in the world.
Nathan is the leader of a group of boys he encounters at a hospital. He leads them to a safe place and they fall asleep and wake up right years later having green blood but are not zombies the reader is never told why they are not zombies.

Disjointed scenes or concepts make the story impossible to be any unified work.
Ideas that don't hold together and two of them are never resolved.

It's a zombie apocalypse - complete with slayer teams and zombies that follow the trope. The two main characters, Lilith and Nate, spent the beginning of the zombie apocalypse hidden in their home, engaged in posting reaction videos of horror movies. They soon realize that the zombie behaviour is very odd, indeed. The zombies seem to behave too predictably - they obligingly die at the slayers hands, just like the zombie trope, yet their behavior is a little off.

Nate and Lilith set out with Lilith's parents to escape the city. Predictably, the characters split up while running from zombies and we get to see the apocalypse from their POVs. All roads seem to lead to the modern necropolis of Leatelranch, which is revealed to be the place where both Lilith and Nate lived as children and left later. The zombies are busy converting the living and are converging on Leatelranch- are they organized? Are they following a plan? Is there a master directing them behind the scenes? Why did all the dead wake up and become zombies? Will the apocalypse end or will humanity bite the dust? These are the questions answered as the story follows the main characters down the ominous, gory body part-littered path to the conclusion. The story switches between the past and the present multiple times, for both the main characters and there are POVs from some minor characters as well.

The time switches were confusing and almost relegated book to my DNF shelf, but the conclusion was worth the effort of soldiering on. This book is sure to appeal to zombie lovers who nerd out on predicting likely locations of hypothetical zombie apocalypses and calculating the rates of spread during said apocalypses. I will certainly be on the look out for more from this author.

The zombie apocalypse is in full swing as the reader starts the book. Nate and Lil are Youtubers that watch and review scary movies for their audience. Lil's parents come by and say they are going back home and taking both of them too. But they don't want to go because that town is in the middle of a giant cemetery!

The parents also seem to be goading them to run with the zombies! Many people are doing this it seems, along with people killing them. It's like running with the bulls in Spain but more biting, less horns! So, the parents get them to do crazy things!

avier Gombinsky wrote, at the end of this work in a section titled “About the Author”, that “Since then, he’s been consuming all things horror and zombies, and keeping a list in the back of his mind about all the things he wanted to happen, but didn’t. This list ultimately became All the Tommys in the World”. He is well and truly in touch with his work.

There are many problems with Tommys. Let me list just a few. The zombies all share a sort of hive mind and give creepy knowing smiles from time to time. The big question, set up by the book’s blurb above, is what do they know? What do they want? What is their plan? While there clearly are answers intended for those questions they are never revealed to the reader.

The zombies know the future – until they don’t! That’s a tension point, why do they believe they know the future and why has this ability suddenly failed them? While there clearly are answers intended for those questions they are never revealed to the reader.

Early on the story splits into two parallel threads, one following Lilith and the other Nathan. After a long sequence of zombie scenes and adventures Nathan has taken up care of a group of children and they think they have found a safe place. They fall asleep and wake up eight years later. With green blood but totally alive and not zombies. Why? I don’t know. No effort is ever made to explain either of these facts. I literally could go on with a dozen other examples of plot lines that just get dropped for no explicable reason. While there clearly are answers intended for those questions they are never revealed to the reader.

There are other smaller issues that raised my hackles but would have been more palatable if there was a plot that held together. Lilith is in the back seat of a car and attacks a zombie in a way that is physically impossible, she would have to have been in the front seat, and she definitely was not. We get a description of her grandmother’s eyes and their movements and are told that her eyes are closed. How does that work? One very interesting character has an eye patch and moves it from eye to eye based on what he needs to see, but we never find out why.

In the end, we come back to the author’s story notes that he collected over the years. There are a number of specific scenes and ideas that are interesting, any one or two could have been a sound foundation for a story. The fundamental flaw in the work is that it never rises above a collection of disjointed scenes or concepts to become any sort of unified work. The ideas don’t hold together and too many of them are never resolved. There is no solid foundation but rather a series of separate bricks to walk on. It’s a shame really.

Ok, so this is a zombie book. I know, I know, it's nearing Halloween, so out come the horror novels. Well, this one is a little different because it is also a mystery. So, pick this one up and enjoy!

First I want to thank NetGalley for giving me an ARC for my review. All the Tommys in the World is a zombie novel. It’s not like any zombie book I’ve ever read. This is a completely different take. The story feels fresh and unique.

The book is hefty at 554 pages. There’s a lot going on. I was never bored and I was completely invested in what was going on and what was going to happen next. There are some very creepy moments. This is not the zombie apocalypse we would want to happen.

I enjoyed reading this book. It did take me a few to like the characters but when I did I was torn between rooting for them and also not wanting a happy ending. I don’t read horror for everyone to be saved at the end.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book. The cover grabbed me, and the premise sealed the deal. I love a strange book, and this puts an ultra-modern twist on the zombie tale with the use of YouTubers Nate and Lil as central characters. I love that they watch and review horror movies. This is a fun premise for any book - and a realistic one, considering how many horror channels and podcasts are out there these days. I will say that I found some parts of the book confusing - kind of hard to keep up with or put together. And notice I used the word "fun" back there - this was just that, not very scary or disturbing, if that is what you are looking for.

All the Tommys in the World was definitely not a book that I enjoyed.
This was the strangest thriller I have ever read. I do like zombie thrillers
but this one was so flat and the characters were one dimensional.
There didn't seem to be much of a identifiable plot.
I wanted to like this one more than I did, but I just didn't.

I was approved to receive an ARC e-Galley of All the Tommys in the World from Pigfarm Press and NetGalley for review consideration. What follows below is my honest review, freely given.

I rated this novel 3.5 stars.

Zombies are near and dear to my horror loving heart, after the original mummy movie (not Fraser, even before him), zombies are what called me to the genre as a kid; scared me something fierce. I remember sitting on the couch, feet pulled off the floor for some reason, zombies are not mice after all, convinced that as long as I didn’t move until my parents came home from work, the zombies wouldn’t get me. I had just watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time, forever changed. Every shadow was a staggering corpse on it’s way to get me! Every creak in my century old house was the sound of a rotting body dragging itself closer and closer to my bedside! And I never said one word to my parents, because then they would have taken away the movies and the books, now wouldn’t they? This novel was an ode to zombies, in all their different forms, the author says so in the very back. He wanted to have a book that had them all in there. I can respect that, though I think having that note at the beginning may have done more good.

See, while reading this book, you very quickly can tell there is a main plot, involving the cemetery town of Leatelranch. To me, everything about it caught my attention, drawing me in to what I was sure to be a grand reveal, a key to the whole reason for what was going on. To me, sadly, things also became very muddled. Random, odd happenings would spring up, sometimes they would have an explanation given later, most times not. Sometimes they would fade out, almost like they were forgotten about. The last fourth of the book I wasn’t sure if I would finish it, but I rarely dnf a book that late in the game, so I kept on. The author’s note cleared some of my confusion up, but not all, the story still has some flow issues, but I know what the vision was and if I had known going in I may have been able to read it differently. Maybe this is an indicator that I don’t much about zombies, newer zombies? Maybe it seemed muddled because I didn’t recognize them? I’m not sure now. But I did like what I consider the main story plot with the town Leatelranch.

Three stars from me, which translates to, "I liked it!" I tend to stay away from zombie books and shows (I haven't even read The Stand, and Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. Also, I have never read or watched The Walking Dead). Despite not reading or watching the most popular (IMO) examples of zombie tales, I gave All the Tommys in the World a shot, and I was not disappointed. I did not love it enough to consume only zombie tales from here on out, but I may seek more. I will certainly BOLO more from Javier Gombinsky. I think my favorite part of being granted this ARC was the exposure to a new-to-me author.

An interesting zombie thriller that follows two youtubers in the middle of an apocalypse.

Our youtubers Lil and Nate review scary movies and now find themselves in a real full on zombie outbreak. This was an interesting fresh new take on the genre that has been at this point a little bit overdone so I was really excited to give it a try.

The book had many strange moments and there are many interesting concepts that are being explored. However I did find it at times confusing and when I start to get confused while reading a book it can quickly pull me out of the story. Another thing that is important for me in a book is the characters and I was unable to establish a connection with them.

However this book was still a fun read and would recommend it if you really love zombie stories and can not have enough of them.