Review: what does it really mean to be A Very Good Man
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
The last in the four book series, Dead End.The blurb says In this stunning conclusion, nothing is left unanswered, except one question; what does it really mean to be A Very Good Man.  I was a little disappointed.  I didn't find it a `stunning' conclusion, although it was for me a fairly satisfactory one.  Although there did seem to be a fast wrap up, skipping over a lot of events needed to get to the ending.  There was a small feeling for me that the author got tired of writing, and finished up the way kids do:  and then, and then, and then, and then, the end.I could buy into the whole zombie thing.  (After all, if not, why be reading a zombie apocalypse book?)  But the creation of a world filled with other `races/species' of folks with all kinds of super abilities got to be a bit much, kind of overkill.  This reader began to feel that they became necessary to bail Jake out of the zombie corner that the author wrote himself into.  Without the special powers people, there was no way to clean up the zombie situation.  I guess I like my zombie stories with some teeny potential of possibility.  I mean, an asteroid hitting the earth and everybody becomes zombies?  Nah.  But an accidental unleashing of a nano-something infection caused by a scientific experiment gone awry?  OK,  that could make some frail sense.A lot of preaching about what the humans have done to totally wreck the planet.  OK, I get it.  We have screwed up.  Stop sermonizing at me and get on with the story.