Hey. Was wondering if you had just given up on this series all together and weren't going to bother with this book. Sorry then about giving spoilers away about what ended up happening to Lilly in that comic thread a while back. So what did you think of having to read four of Jay's books just to get the grand finale of Lilly getting her foot cut off?

And yeah about the villain of the book. You could take all of the villains throughout these past four books and they were all basically the same exact character with different names.

I personally thought this was the worst book of the four. This series pretty much ruined Lilly Caul as a character. She would have turned out so much better if Kirkman gave Telltale the rights to tell her story after the prison arc. I think TellTale storytelling has dipped in quality a little bit as well. But their games are still a thousand times better than these past four books have been.

 

What ever happened to our Jay anyway.

 

Was that really him? I always figured it was just some poster poking fun at the books.

 

It was a troll. But he was hilarious. Lol

 

So @Neuropyramidal I'm assuming this particular series is finished than right? Havn't seen anything about the next upcoming novel plus there isn't much they can do with Lilly as a character now since she only has one foot.

Still wouldn't mind another Walking Dead novel series. Definitely needs a writer that will take it more seriously than Jay did though. One idea might be to follow Magna from the beginning of the apocalypse until her and her group reaches Alexandria (don't think Kirkman has plans to delve into their backstory too much in the comic).

I have always pictured Magna as how Kirkman would have written Lilly if he chose to keep her in the comic to eventually join Rick's group.

 

Hmmmmmm

 

I'm so glad that I stopped reading this series before Lilly lost her foot. lol

Was it a Hershel style walker bite deal?

 

Oh we could see the whole thing coming from a mile away. Only question was since this was the last book of the contract they have was it going to kill Lilly.

Basically one of the characters in the Woodbury group (Tommy, who has been around since Descent or Invasion I believe) got separated from the group with about a hundred pages left in the book. It was extremely obvious from the very beginning that he was just getting separated so he could come save the day at the end. Sure enough that was what happened as the main villain of this particular novel took all the remaining characters hostage (all of Jay's books seemed to end with someone getting taken hostage at the end), Then right as the story was trying to make you think all was doomed for Lilly and co. here comes Tommy with gun in hand shooting the boss from behind.

The main boss put Lilly's group in a pit and after Tommy shot him I guess he didn't bother to kill his brain (you'd think this far into the apocalypse that would be second nature to these guys by now as this story is supposed to take place during the timeskip of the comics I believe). So as Tommy is trying to rescue the group and help them out of the pit the main boss reawakes in zombie form and falls into the pit right around the area where Lilly was at and nabs her on her ankle. Just before that it was revealed that Tommy was bit just prior to getting back to Woodbury.

So it ends with Tommy and Lilly being bit and the book wants it to be an emotional moment with both wanting to sacrifice themselves for the other.

Tommy was one of the kids of the men that Lilly had one of her short romances with. For the first several books you could guarantee that Lilly was going to have a sex scene about halfway through (just like all bad movies do in order to keep people watching until the end). I think it went that way for about four or five books and in each book the guy died by the end. Guess Jay decided to stop giving her these very predictable romances and in place of that he gave Lilly a mother/child relationship and Tommy was placed into the role of the child.

 

Thanks for the synopsis. I stopped after the evil Reverend guy who had the caravan where they ridiculously kept driving around. So I skipped the last two books.

So Tommy ends up chopping off Lilly's foot? Wasn't there anyone left that could save them both? lol

 

Yeah there was like four or five other people down there. I think the deal was that they only had one bullet left amongst the group and both Lilly and Tommy was wanting that bullet to be used on them and have people save the other. It really didn't make much sense but Jay was again forgoing realism in order to play out a dramatic scene.

 

Wow, that's even bad by Jay's usually low standards.