Review: Chapter by Chapter's Review of The Zombie Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2012
I didn't really know what to expect from The Zombie Story. I knew it was the first novella in a series, that it was about zombies (obviously), but other than those two things I was taking a shot in the dark. As I began reading the novel I was wondering one thing: What sets The Zombie Story apart from other zombie stories. Since as most of you should know, there are a lot of them.  Well there is a long list of reasons why this novella sets the bar far from other zombie based stories: The world is still normal and not dystopian. Not everybody knows about the existence of zombies. And did I forget to mention the part where everybody is tested to see just how powerful their magick is?Yes, I just said that: Magick. With a capital (well actually lower case) K.  In the wonderful world of The Chronicles of Orlando everybody on planet Earth has magical powers but to some extent and our MC Orlando is yet to be tested.When I began reading the novel I found it well written and interesting. Poor Orlando being forced to move to L.A. and then seeing a zombie get killed on his first day in town. Sure it doesn't sound like a great way to start the day, but it was a great way to start a novel (la).  As the story progressed I did notice the way the building of characters and the way that the Zombie Hunter's worked, but like any story you need a bad guy! And in The Zombie Story our bad guy is Maxwell who came off as unpredictable and like a mad-scientist. Not to mention that the other main bad guys in the story were the zombies themselves, who (contrary to popular belief) are still semi-intelligent?While I did hope that maybe we would get to see some romance (because come on who doesn't like a little bit of romance?) I did think that when Orlando was around our main female character Elodie that their friendship could definitely change into something more and what the note that The Zombie Story ends on, I wouldn't ignore the idea.As for the ending, it totally left you waiting for the sequel with their being so many lose ends and so many more people left to die...