Review: windy city of the dead
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2012
NOTE :  There is some swearing in the text.  It is not a lot and seemed scene appropriate when I encountered it.  I can imagine tossing out a few choice words in such situation.  I did not take issue with such, but I am adding comment to review in case others would like to know.This is story of gal on 52nd floor of condo building in Windy City.  While settling in for evening she feels some rumbles and shakes and loud noises.  Enter the plane crash into neighboring building (she thinks).  While trying to tweet, facebook, text (etc.) in order to determine what is going on (she cannot quite see what is going on outside except fire glow and the like).  Via news reports and some links sent to her by brother her view of what is really going on comes clear.  There has been a crash (not a plane) that has managed to dispurse some gaseous cloud that reanimates some people who really are hungry.  This tale (seems like will be more installments) is her getting from floor 52 down and out of building so she can get out of town before the whole city is taken over by the famished or is exterminated by government.  Really pretty interesting future potential available.The tale is told with description that allows some vivid images for reader.  There is quite a bit of violence - though the encounters are plot driven.  Rather than being dumped in to drive plot with a bunch of gratuitous gore for shock value.  While is shocking - it is not overdone (to this reader).The drawback for me was the editing.  In one scene the gal looks out into hall and man is walking down hall holding hand of wife and young daughter.  When she goes into hall, the characters are a man, his wife and teenage son Tom.  There were over 20 other locations I marked that had punctuation or grammar errors.  Work this short should really have fewer errors.Still, even with the star lost for editing issues, I found the author to be a creative writer and worth recommending.  I have already downloaded a longer work.Christine