Review: A 'Harlequin Romance' in a Time of Zombies
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
I got about the first third of this as part of a ninety-nine cent anthology, so no complaints there.This is well-written and well-edited - there are very, very few mechanical or constructional errors.  There's no scarcity of  bloody, nasty, slam-bang shoot 'em up action.The guns 'n' ammo stuff is presented from the perspective of the 'twenty-year-old, former cheerleader, didn't know much about guns 'n' ammo to begin with' main protagonist - so it's about like you'd expect, and fair enough on that score. (Although the repeated use of 'semiautomatic machine gun' did  set my teeth on edge.)The main characters are well developed; the secondary characters have enough depth to not feel like one-dimensional walk-ons.  The action and dialog flow well and smoothly, and the author devotes considerable time and attention to thoughts and feelings and emotions and the interplay of characters, to the point where I wound up skimming pages and pages  and pages looking for the action to pick up again.I understand that I'm not the author's target audience; this is for sure a 'chick book' for the young adult audience, and not my usual cup o' tea.  That disclaimer made, it is well executed within those parameters and well worth a look.