Review: Another interesting Mike Lee story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
Frankly, I don't like Zombie stories. I don't like Zombie characters in the books that have them show up from time to time. Zombies are boring because, well, they are dead people, who don't think, but act in usually dumb ways. When I see the word Zombie in a title, or as a description on a book, I ignore it. There are lots of good books out there, why waste my time with something I don't like. At $4.99 I don't just buy a book that I think MIGHT be interesting.So why am I writing a 5-Start review? I discovered Mike Lee stories last year, and found them very enjoyable. However, Mike has only written a few books, will this be as good as his others? Why Zombies? With his other stories when I thought I knew what I was getting, I was wrong. I like that, after all, why read stories where you know everything, there is no fun in that! I liked Mike's stories, and he's a new author. I have to encourage new talented authors, and if I expect more of the other stories I like, he has to stay motivated, and selling stories tends to motivate authors, a lot.So I clicked buy.I'm glad I did. It's not really a story about Zombies but a story about Matt Freeman who has  an odd job bringing dead people back to life for a few minutes to help the police. Since they are the "living dead" that makes them Zombies and this a Zombie story. But it's not really. It's about Matt, and some odd things he is noticing on the job that indicate the technology he is using to bring recently dead people back to life for a few minutes isn't what was explained in his training. Yep, not a typical Zombie story.Rather than a story about bringing dead bodies to life, it's a story about bringing a dying soul back to life, because although Matt is alive, he not really living life like it should be lived and it takes dead people, a woman, a mystery, murder, and deep thought to give Mike a new perspective on life.There is some interesting technology, a slightly different world from today's, some new business models, good people, bad people and crazy people interacting to provide not only an engaging story, but a new perspective on life and death.Yea, I liked it, and I'm thrilled to read Mike is "retiring" and writing full time, a bonus I didn't find until AFTER the end of the book.