Review: Good vs Evil Apocalyptic Tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
As the title states this is a Good vs Evil Apocalyptic Tale. This is not quite a zombie story nor is it a dreary end of the world apocalyptic tale but yet it has much of the best of both. As you have read the other reviews yes there are truly zombies in this book but they are simply not the true evil in this book. I have read many odd comments / reviews on this book, my favorite being that this is a weak Stephen King story. Interesting considering it was meant to be a negative comment but yet you compared the author to Stephen King, sure he must be really upset with that one. My 2nd favorite and just as comical is the reference that this book is long maybe to long. There is no such thing as a book being too long to me unless it sucks. Then the book could be a short story & it will still feel long.The Stephen King reference is obviously The Stand which is one of my all time favorite books. This is not The Stand nor is it a rip off of The Stand but in some ways it has some of The Stands feel to it. It is good vs evil, there is end of the world issues to deal with, there is a definite incarnation of darkness running around but he does not have a true counterpart. You can not simply call any end of the world battle for humanity a weak Stephen King story unless that is your only real reference.Yes the book is long in pages, the book could maybe have been shorter it also in my opinion could have been longer. This actually brings us to my negatives of the book - it should have been longer. The book goes from the point of almost making you believe that there must be another book for to much is left to be done for so few chapters left. Then suddenly it is 14 years later. OK maybe / kind of / sort of - or not really. There are too many well written characters by this author that end with nothing more then a sentence / footnote. There are too many characters that you come to care about, that interest you enough to want to know at least a little more. There is one character who goes through a traumatic loss at the end of the book that the next time you hear of him is 14 years later aiming a rifle with others he probably trained. I also was upset about a certain character who is traveling quite far to meet our band of good & it is mentioned he is carrying items to which he does not know why. What items & why oh well in short neither do I even after having read the book????I could never see myself not having read this book it is truly a good story & mostly well written. There are times you will need to take a break but mostly it is not a book you will be able to put down for long without finishing.