Review: I had high hopes
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
I wanted to like Deadlocked since I love zombie fiction. Unfortunately, I just couldn't do it. What you get in this book is a fast-paced story - too fast paced. The author falls easily into a trap common with 1st person narration. He tells instead of showing. The result is a narration that feels like stream of consciousness rather than a thought out progression. That style has its place but fails to deliver here. Two stars because there was real potential in the story line.The book reads like a YA reader, however the language is wholly unsuitable. An irksome addition is the "Author's Notes" at the end of the book. Taking more time to read than the book itself and better written than the story, I might add, the notes just try too hard. I don't need to be convinced that a book is good. Some insight at the end of a novel is nice - Neil Gaiman does this very well - but laying out, point by point, why your story is unique and praiseworthy comes off as possibly pretentious and mostly desperate.A.R. Wise has some other free works available, which I will try. I will not, however, be paying to continue this series.