Review: The Great Dead North
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
As a person who lives in British Columbia (and is very familiar with the region where this books takes place) as well as a lover of all post apocalyptic novels I could not resist downloading this book as soon as I came across it! I loved everything about this book! From the obvious immense amount of knowledge (or research) done about the region, the weather conditions, the sparseness of population, and most of all the characters. The people I know up in northern B.C. are definitely a very eclectic group of individuals and that was something that came across quite clearly in this author's writings.I also very much enjoyed the lack of "how did this happen" that I find so often in many books along this line, which is something I never understand when I see it happen... after all, if the zombie apocalypse were to actually take place I have always had a hard time believing that people would really waste too much thought on how or why, at least until everyone has potentially found a very real safe haven away from the non-stop fight to just survive! I would recommend this book with no hesitations to anyone who is looking to just curl up and disappear in a very different "reality" for a while! From beginning to end it is non-stop adventure made all the more exciting by the depth of reality of the environment where the story takes place... I could literally picture some of the places named in this book as they were described so aptly, making it all the more real feeling (and creepy) as I read basically non-stop from the moment I began the first paragraph. If you know northern BC and like this sort of writing, you cannot miss this book! If you don't know the area, but want to read a truly well written zombie book that is placed in a very real environment, with very realistic individuals, you cannot afford to miss this book either! I hope others enjoy it as much as I have!