Review: Excellent Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
Wow.I am very, very pleasantly amazed with this work. Adam Booth can write. That's saying a lot these days, in the glutted market of self-published zombie stories, this one stands out. There are a few editorial issues ("its" vs. "it's" most notably), but not anything that takes the reader away from the storyline. The writing itself is both beautiful and disgusting at the same time, and it's this dichotomy that is really striking to me, as it is done is a way that is touching but not pretentious.This short story is told from the first person perspective of Zoe (in Greek, her name ironically means "life"), as she is first attacked by a zombie, and then her transforms and lives as one of the undead. As she decays and shambles after the living, her consciousness struggles with sanity (recalling entire episodes of "Friends", reliving horrible episodes of her life). The best and worst scene, for me, was the youth in the blue wheelchair. His death at Zoe's hands, nowhere near as horrible as his life had been.I would recommend this to any fan of horror stories. Very well done.