Review: A One Time Read - Well Written and Polished
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
As far as technical creative writing goes this work is a cut well above the average since it's apparent the author mobilised very good writing skills and has taken great pains to editorially polish his efforts. [One star]The story flows easily and naturally with many funny and sardonic flourishes and touches. Zombie profiling also stands out as an appealing element - at least for most of the time. [Two stars]However what makes this a one-time read for me are two things.First, the story follows a relatively straight line trajectory with no out-of-the-box twists and creative curved balls. [Minus one star] That said, the minor scenarios are very well done and kept my overall interest level up.  Indeed it could be said these actually carry the story....Second, there are too many major and minor characters which results in individually thin characterisations and thus a sense of "so-what?" when any one of them get into a sticky pickle. [Minus one star] In my opinion, there's huge merit in capping the number of zombie book lead characters at four - and pretty please with sugar on top resist the urge to inject a loveable dog into the work.Worth the money? Of course - because on balance it's a good read.