Review: Good times, gore, and space lasers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
I was a bit torn on this book, to be honest. At times it descended into the sort of silliness that you'd expect a 14-year-old boy to eat up (an anime-watching martial arts badass who fights zombies with a scythe...) but at other times it completely went against what I'm used to seeing in those sorts of stories (not all of the survivors are white, a fun bbw love interest, the main couple having fun together instead of having an overblown dramatic romance, at one stage the main character has a bit of a cry and it's not a TEARS OF MANLY REVENGE thing).Apart from the occasional dips into boyish silliness, it's a very creative jaunt down the well-worn path of zombie apocalypses, and an enjoyable one to boot. I loved the community and all the people in it, and the main character's narration was great fun to read. It sort of fell apart a little bit at the end, with some plot twists not really being well addressed and some characters not being as fleshed-out as I'd have liked to see, but the enjoyable setup with the community was worth it.If you're not a strict adherent to Romero-style zombies, and you like a fun read with lots of gore, I'd definitely recommend giving it a whirl!