Review: Not a typical zombie book but is approrpiate for any YA reader
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
I would have given this novel a higher rating  if it had been properly copy edited before release.  Words have been left out here and there and in other places the words have been jumbled.  I was also irked that the story ends in mid-tale so that the author can sell two more books in order to tell the entire story.  This is a novella, at best, and, in my humble opinion, not worth the price of a full-length novelAnother thing that rendered me unable to give anything more than a rating of three stars is the fact that I didn't care for the protagonist at all.  She seemed to go out of her way to irk everyone in the story and she certainly irked me.  Her decisions were ill thought out and wholly unbelievable.Several ideas were repeated again and again in the book as if the author wrote the book over a long time and forgot that she'd already told the reader things, such as the fact that the protagonist had been on her own, basically raising herself for a long time, that her father had warned her time and again about germs, that her brother had shot her mother, that she was was passionately against guns, etc.  Take all the repeated ideas out and this would hardly be longer than a LONG short story.If these things don't irk you, then you'll probably like this story.  Despite all the shortcomings in the writing, I probably will buy the second book in the series.