Dead Bitch Army

Mary Jane Mezerak, wife to football star Carl Mezerak, was killed in a fatal accident. But she's not dead. Now known as Bloody Mary, an ethereal walking corpse, she's out to seduce followers into a cult that worships her. Her right hand man is Griff, who has telekinetic abilities which he calls "coaxing". He has the ability to read minds and force people to see things that aren't really happening. Mary Jane wants her two-timing husband dead, and after being introduced to the self-centered, narcissistic Carl, you won't blame her.Hard on Mary Jane's tail is Natasha (Tasha) Armstrong, wanted by the police for all the atrocities Mary Jane has committed and out for personal revenge. It was Mary Jane who kidnapped and killed Tasha's son. Following Tasha and the new cult of Mary Jane is reporter Linda Ludlow, who becomes involved in the story in a more horrific way than she could have imagined. The cult of Mary Jane is spreading, and with a rave planned for New Year's Eve 1999, will there be anything that can stop her?I looked forward to 'Dead B!tch Army' and am sorry to say I was highly disappointed. The writing is stilted at times and disjointed at others. Nonsensical sentences like "That wouldn't account for the times that she wasn't wearing it tasted the weight of her fist, elbow, and foot even" abound. There's missing words and punctuation, misspelled words (gnawing spelled knawing, throne spelled thrown), runaway sentences, and plot-less meanderings that made reading the book difficult.The ending is abrupt, followed by random epilogue stories tied loosely, at best, to the main story. I was really frustrated by this book. I've read some great short stories by this author (The Bizzaro Starter Kit) and was anticipating 'Dead B!tch Army'. This feels like a freshman effort, in need of some strong editing. However, I'm not ready to give up on the author yet, as such an imagination deserves another chance.

this would make a grat movie... or maybe even better... a re write ofthe original story. everything about this book screams GREAT READ! but as other reviews have pointed out its a bit hard to follow. but if you can get past that, there are some very good scenes and the authors descriptions are almost to real at times (in a good way). my advice is sadly to skip this book but buy the second book 'Jesus Freaks' bythe same author. which is much better and a real kick in the pants both intelecutally as well as action wise. so ill sit and wait 'till the next installment in Mr. Duza's library...

Duza wrote the story on note cards, half great material and half bad material. He them threw them all up into the air and published them as they lay.The parts that are good are really good but the parts that are bad are just boring. The style is schizo and so you never know what style the next page will be. This is both good and bad.

Although I was impressed by the author's imagination, I found the book to be almost unreadable due to problems with the writing -- things that any decent editor should have caught and corrected before the book went to press. Examples are careless changes in point of view in mid paragraph, characters knowing things that they can't possible see/hear/sense, and excessively ornate descriptive language. Another set of distractions include, for example, two characters on the tracks in front of an onrushing train having thirty seconds or so of conversation and action without being hit by the train just described as being 40 feet away. At 60 miles per hour, it takes a train about 1/2 second to close a 40 foot gap.This is an author in search of an editor or a writing course. I hope he finds one or both and I look forward to reading his writing afterward.

The name Mary Jane usually conjures up thoughts of something good and wholesome. But in DEAD BITCH ARMY by Andre Duza, Mary Jane Mezerak is anything but good and wholesome. In fact, she isn't even alive. That's right, she is a gun toting, axe-wielding corpse with a bad attitude. She is adored and held in the highest esteem by her merry band of renegades. They believe in her and her cause, which has become twisted from years of hatred mixed with a fanatical desire to extract revenge on her ex-husband. She has spent years building and training her army, a small troop made up of runaways or individuals she's kidnapped. One members of her team has special telekinetic powers while the others have a proclivity for cruelty. They have been responsible for years of gruesome death and destruction among unsuspecting targets. Yet, in the bigger scheme of things, Mary Jane desires to build an even bigger army of all her true believers in order to change the world.Natasha Armstrong appears to be the only person who knows the truth about Mary Jane, or, more exactly, the only one willing to believe all she's seen about Mary Jane. Believing that Mary Jane killed her son, Natasha has been seeking revenge for the last twelve years. During this time, she has entered a world filled with many unexplained oddities that would make any person question his or her sanity. In fact, the authorities want to question her because they believe she is responsible for the now famous Bloody Mary Murders. Because of her close proximity to nearly all of the murder scenes and numerous eyewitness accounts, there are many who feel Natasha is responsible for all the horrible deaths. Captured by the cops and condemned by the media, Natasha can only sit back and plan her next attack. Will she stop Mary Jane?Andre Duza's freshman effort is one totally horrific and bizarre tale about retribution, hatred, justice and all-consuming wrath. It was hard for me to mentally grasp the concept of a dead person with normal human abilities and seeking revenge, which is why I was not feeling this book at first. After getting past that and into to the story, I found it to be fast-paced, gory as all get out and a nail biter. Many of the scenes seemed so real that at one point during the ensuing days after this reading experience, I found myself checking my rearview mirror for a black van pursuing me. That's just how creepy this book was. As much as this book got under my skin, I did note a few editorial inconsistencies that caused some distractions. Aside from that, I will mention that the artwork provided in this book was on point and really matched the author's description. I'm sure this author's unique perspective in providing an entertaining storyline will amass him a nice following as he continues to publish more books in the future.[...]