Review: Fun and fast-moving!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
ORPHEUS is an interesting tale of man vs zombie on an island resort.  The main character, nicknamed Orpheus (at first I was picturing Morpheus from THE MATRIX), is a tough ex-AF man who has a personal mission which seems to align with the needs of the zombie-threatened community he finds himself part of.  He wants to find his family, especially his son.  To do this, he needs to locate survivors and clear the island of these zombies, place by place.The second part of the book follows his son, Ethan (okay, this time I kept thinking of Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible) and the band of survivors he has hooked up with, and their experiences and exploits in surviving the zombies.As the two finally begin to come closer together, more is revealed about the causes of this zombie epidemic and about some of the people on the island.This was a solid, well written read with great pacing and good storytelling.  It's my first experience with author Dan DeWitt, and I'll watch for more by him in the future.