Review: sophomoric at best, weak attempt at worst
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2012
I did not like this book.  The beginning start out well.....a rich, privileged surgeon learns of the upcoming zombie apocalypse.  He goes on an obsessive spending binge, buying anything and everything he thinks will help him prepare.  While it shows how someone like him simply throws money at a problem, it also shows someone in a complete state of panic, never before having even though of something like this happening.  He wasn't a prepper, didn't believe in zombies, SHTF, etc.After the disease gets out and the SHTF, that's when the book really takes a nose dive.  Overlooking the extreme arrogance and self-righteousness of the protagonist, many parts of the story simply don't make sense.  The secondary characters are fleshed out and detailed....then completely forgotten about.  There was a dozen pages surrounding them finding a girl with a young child she was babysitting.....their ordeal well detailed.  Then, without any reason, they are completely dumped from the story, with nary a single mention of their names again.Should I even start on how the protag thinks he's completely irresistible to any and all females, even after the zombocalypse?  His wife, hes friends' wives, survivors....he's all but beating girls off him with a stick.Now let me point out another huge mistake:  when a horde of zombies attacks his extremely fortified home, he simply stands in front of the gate and shoots them all....knowing full well the shoots will only draw more zombies to the fight.  If he was so smart and educated, not to mention spending around half a million on supplies, why not make spears, pikes, similarly pointed/edges weapons that are totally silent?To anyone with a library of zombie/post apoc. books, this is a weak story, with many plot holes and illogical zombie combat.  If you're new to the genre, then you may like it more.  But after reading several top quality zombie books, you'll learn where this novel actually resides.....the far bottom of the heap.