Review: The nightly appearance of meandering zombies fills a farm family with many questions!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
How will a family living on a farm deal with the fallout of nightly visitations from zombies? When John and Ruth Bell discover the row lines in their vegetable garden pulled down, they assume its livestock getting loose at night. It's only when John notices messy footprints that he realizes it must have been a person. Several nights later, while latching his pens and fences, John sees a zombie dragging itself across his yard. Instead of panicking, he calmly tells his wife later on that night.He hadn't felt threatened by what he saw, so he decides to tell his three children the next day over breakfast. His two boys display shocked expressions, but his youngest child, Cecilia, is unimpressed. She's not sure what a zombie is. John explains to her it's a person who's died but who has come back to life minus his or her soul. Cecilia asks if she can tell her teacher about the zombie her father saw, but John tells all three children to keep the information to themselves to avoid a panic breaking out. That night, he, his wife Ruth, and their oldest child, Seth, witness several zombies stagger through their vegetable garden.Mr. Elkins and the Zombies of Elbert County isn't a typical story about flesh-eating zombies. Author Thom Adorney has written a tale about meandering deceased individuals looking for a second resting place and the compassion a family in addition to several residents in the community exhibit for the zombies' plight. When Cecilia draws a picture of the first zombie her father saw, how will the revelation impact a rural community? When a spectator recognizes one of the zombies, will she be able to help him find a final resting place?