Review: One of my new fave zombie books-very well done!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2013
I expected huge amounts of cheesiness in this one- I mean, we're talking a zombie outbreak in a trailer park, right? I was delighted to find this is a far more serious read than the subject matter would lead me to believe! The characters are varied, believable, and generally well-developed.I found myself having mixed feelings for some of them- they're first presented as someone you'll love or hate, but as their characters emerge many become far less clearly cut than that. That's not to say that there aren't some clear heroe/villian types, but there's a large grey area on some of the characters in here, which I enjoyed.This is a longer length book than many in the genre, which was fantastic, because I hated to see it end. I don't recall any portions that felt like 'dead spots' where you get the impression it was just filler or you wonder why the author included that scene. everything moved the story along or added to character developement.Kudos to the author for making the infected a double threat- first when alive and infected, then when deceased and still kickin'.My only complaint would be that dialougue is mispunctuated, with capital letters on 'tags' and qoutaton marks misused when the speaker says more than one paragraph's worth of dialogue. A minor flaw that in no way made me consider putting it down for a minute! On many other books, that would be enough to demote it to 4 stars, in my eyes, but this read was so fantastic that I still feel strongly that it deserves 5 stars.