Review: A Very Decent Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
I read the first chapter in the free sample and turned around and bought the book.  It's not exactly my cup o' zombie tea, but it caught and held my interest and I will buy the sequel.The story starts out quickly and maintains a good steady pace throughout.  It has excellent continuity and internal consistency, but it is not so much a zombie tale as it is a tale about thoughts and feelings and relationships set against a zombie apocalypse back drop.  It is very much a 'chick book', but still well worth a look for all the non-chick zombie fans.Mechanically, it's well written and reasonably well edited; several minor issues ('consecrated' instead of 'desecrated', wrong word or word left out here and there) and one or two equipment and tactics issues (main protagonist's primary weapon - a free-spinning circular saw blade on the end of a long pole; blade's teeth would dig in and the blade would rotate around the point of contact rather than slice cleanly), but otherwise no significant show-stoppers or suspension of disbelief issues.The zombies are not quite the typical zombie; they have some weaknesses more commonly associated with vampires (so, zompires perhaps, or vambies?) and may or may not retain some higher brain function - the author drops some hints in several different scenes.The author also drops several hints about the main protagonist's development and evolution, and I'll be interested to see how this pans out.I'm more a 'tech, tactics, and equipment' kind o' guy, but I found Ms. Alt's effort to be an interesting change of pace.  Try the free sample and you'll want to buy the book.Hope this helps.