Review: Excellent zombie fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
I caught wind of this book as a sample at the end of another less-than-impressive zombie novel I was reading, and I gotta say this book grabbed me. It was really quite good as books generally go, and indeed excellent when compared to most other zombie fiction. I see a lot of reviews saying it could have used an editor, but I didn't really feel that (perhaps it has been edited since those reviews were posted).There are a lot of good things to say about this book. The writing was pretty good with only a few minor issues here and there (such as some drawn out descriptions, some descriptions about characters or places being repetitive as they'd already been talked about in such a way previously, etc). Where this story really shined were the characters and the atmosphere of the setting. Not all of the characters were interesting, but they all felt like actual people, 3 dimensional, rather than the card-board cutouts of cliched lines and stilted conversation that you run into a lot in this genre. The quiet tension of the setting was well conveyed, with the tension ramping up into action as necessary. Some people may have a problem with some of the descriptions of gore, but anyone who is an avid reader of zombie fiction should be pretty used to it. It's not over the top, but it is direct and gruesome.Anyway, this is some excellent zombie fiction, and I highly recommend it. And, if you enjoy this one, you'll probably enjoy the entire trilogy, but this book still works great as a standalone as well. :)