Review: Not sure why the author decided to tackle a zombie story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
This is the third story I've read by the author848 (Dark Bites)andLike Cats and Dogs (Dark Bites)are the other two).  Ropars seems to have a clear respect for the history of horror, which should translate into a passion for the genre.  None of that passion, however, makes it into the story.A young woman, Crow Lee, is awoken from a bizarre dream by a sudden sound.  At first she thinks the sound is an earthquake, then she thinks it is a plane crash.  As she logs on to her social networking sites and turns on the news, the truth turns out to be something even more unsettling -- a meteor has struck downtown Chicago and it is having a strange effect on dead bodies.  Crow finds herself having to fight her away out of her high rise apartment building with only the weapons she has on hand.Ropars states that his intention was to place strong women in classic horror situations.  The problem with this story is that the situation was a little too classic -- Crow is surrounded by stock 1960s-style zombies, right down to their muttered pleas for "brainsssss."  I wish he had put a bit more of his creative energy into the scenes -- some innovation would have gone a long way.Fans of strong female characters who don't mind a standard situation will still find a lot to enjoy in this story.  It eliminates some of the problems with pacing and appropriate level of detail that I found in the other two stories in the series.