Review: Not Your Typical Zombie Apocolypse Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
And by that title I mean that this little book is unusual in several regards.First, the story presents as lined loose-leaf pages of note book paper written in a child's printed hand.  The look of the book contributes to the book's grip on the reader (at least it did so for me).  A close examination of script shows that it is a word-processor font, but the illusion of a child's block printing is quite convincing.Second, the narrator of the story is a girl of nine, or so, years age.  That makes this story's narrator unique (at least in my experience).  The story evolves as a series of diary entries which Kellie makes on a nearly daily basis.  The authors do a good job of speaking in a child's voice; which, again, increases the story's grip on the reader's imagination.Third, we, the readers, are by no means assured that we are reading the diary of a survivor who finds her family--or any other living people--and lives to see the end of the disaster.  When reading this story, one is not sure that Kellie doesn't eventually fall victim to monsters; leaving behind only her diary to tell the tale of her last days.As a zombie apocolypse story goes, this is quite a good one.  My one concern is that the authors may not have thoroughly thought out the nature of their zombies.  Are they supernatural walking corpses?  Or are they humans nearly lobotomized by some illness who have become monsters driven to hunt and eat?  Obviously the exact nature of the monsters will have a big impact on the story.Never-the-less, it is an engaging and well crafted story which you should enjoy, if you like apocolypse/disaster genre stories with strong female lead characters.