Review: The Dead Are Walking!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2012
Oh my goodness, I don't even know where to start! I bought this book because it sounded creepy and I love zombies. The thing with zombie stories though, is they can be overdone and sometimes not very good. This one is one of the better ones. It takes place on a 'Body Farm', which if you know anything about forensics, is where bodies are studied in various states of decomposition. The story begins with some of the bodies having been 'disturbed'. Some have been uncovered and others have been moved completely from where they were supposed to be. Dr. Eleanor Armitage is pissed, to say the least. The experiments are ruined. Then, to her uttter horror, the body she is bent over, begins to move!The chase is on from there, as she and a colleague race for the building, only to discover that the dead in there are alive and they are trapped, along with a few other employees. Through a series of events, Eleanor, a scientist through and through, discovers what has animated the dead, a plot twist that I find satisfying. Too often we don't have an explenation for WHY the dead have suddenly started moving. Is it a virus, is it a biological weapon, is it an alien invasion. I sometimes find myself reading or watching zombies and wondering, why. The author has answered the how in this, although the why may still be elusive and the cure somewhere down the road.I say that, because I really wish it had been longer. This story only takes up about 24 percent of the book, leaving the dead still alive and still coming after the human population. The rest of the book is the first 12 chapters of her novel, The Dark Road, which sounds really good and I will probably end up buying it. I just hope that she returns to The Body Farm, so we can see how the survivors are doing.