Review: Just not what I look for in a zombie read
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
I'm not giving this story 2 stars because of anything the author did or didn't do per se.  Unfortunately I just couldn't get into this.  I found the premise to be very new and different which is wonderful for a genre that's been bombarded like this one has, but this just didn't work for me.  Part of the reason I love zombie stories so much is the gore and utter hopelessness of a dystopian and dying world but with this kind of story it kinda takes all of that out of it.  The zombies in this story are actually the living and breathing people and its the actual zombies that are considered to be human and normal so they hunt down those that are still living and seeing because they are the scary monster zombies.  Not the ACTUAL zombies, who act totally normal (this kind of defeats the reason why I love this genre in the first place).  This was a prequel to a longer novel titled "The Dishonored Dead" and unfortunately this short story just showed me that it wouldn't be a book I would appreciate as much as others might.  I'm sure there are some great philosophical and psychologically interesting points in the book itself but that's not really what I was looking for in this.