Review: An excellent zombie tale, with a twist...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2012
As a connoiseur of zombie fiction, I'm always pleased when I stumble across a zombie tale that brings something different to the table. In this case, the tale is set in England. Yes, England, land of the 2012 Olympics, Monty Python, the stiff upper lip and very few firearms. So, can you make a good zombie story without guns? Based on results, most definitely and refreshingly so!The plot is good, the characters likable and the dialog, once you get used to the British style of banter, enjoyable. The characters seem genuinely human and are definitely not of the superhero sub-type from which zombie-lit so often seems to suffer. They suffer, make mistakes, learn from their experiences, endure tragedies and, in so doing, you come to care about them.The sole complaint I had was the annoying error of dropping the "s" from the word "she". It got so bad that for awhile I was questioning whether the main character might be gay since his wife's actions were always "he said this" or "he did that". Not that there's anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld might say. Still, as the genre goes, with it's general host of misspellings and syntax errors, this was a minor mistake that eventually sorted itself out and didn't end up detracting from a thoroughly fun and different read. Five stars! I definitely look forward to reading more books by this author.