Review: God and zombies
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2011
A good book, well written and thoughtful.  The journal style doesn't work super well from an editing perspective because when you write a journal, it should not have continuing dialogue that makes it read like a book, but this book reads smoothly nonetheless.  If anything, parts of this should be journal entries, and parts of it should be broken out into actual text.  The writing itself is very good.There are zombies, yes, but it's not really a "zombie book".  The book starts out with the main character*, Georgina Fulci, waking up/washing up on the beach of an empty and uncharted island in an unknown location after surviving a plane crash.  There are 4 other people that eventually emerge, and none of them really knows what happened.  As the story unfolds, we find out a little about what happened on the plane as the crash survivors become involved with each other and their island survival.One of the characters believes that God has sent him on a mission to protect these people and he takes his job very seriously, sitting on the beach in constant communication with God.80% of the book is journal entries of their daily lives on the island, which of course doesn't consist of much except wondering what is going on out in the world, wondering if rescue is coming, gathering food and building shelters, and fighting off zombies with homemade weapons.  Each person's back story is slowly revealed as the journal entries continue, and the main one is the lead character's angst about her husband and daughter.  The remaining 20% of the book has much more happening and is a good progression from the monotony of the island life.Anything else rolls into spoiler territory.  This is a thought-provoking, literary type of book that doesn't follow the usual zombie fare.*Did you see the remake of the English Survivors?  Georgina Fulci, to me, was Abby from that show.  Very similar "feel" to her.