Review: Just not my cup of tea..........
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2012
Sadly I had to give up on this one and oddly enough on this occasion, not because of the grammar or spelling as I didn't find it particularly offensive in the segment that I read (punctuation, however..... well that's a different matter)Got the impression it wasn't for me when the dosser main character, who had been out on the lash the night before and was too hung over to function the next day or turn up for work, woke up without a clue as to what was happening.It then went downhill from there as some poorly constructed hitman, come debt collector who calls himself 'Mr Smith' turns up........ sigh..... and then it's a wacky, seat of your pants, hang on to your hat ride along for your life, following their silly exploits and shenanigans in trying to find a mate of the main character who owes said hitman money (at least I presume this was the intention). I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be more farcical comedy than black humour/tongue in cheek (which is what I was expecting) and I was just not connecting the comedy part of it.Examples of why I had to quit would be where -A corpse has apparently broken both it's neck and leg in numerous places yet continues it's walk down the street....???!!! and for some reason I don't understand, all the zombies are described to be so ripe and 'putrid' as to have been dead at least a week and yet it's been less than 24hrs.Soldiers guarding the hospital and not allowing people in because the dead are overrunning the place, yet let the main duo in because they say they are picking someone up....??? huh. Then a doctor at the hospital throws up after seeing the gore from a corpse shot in the head.A corpse is hit by their car (a Camero or something) obliterating it and it sounds like 'broken twigs'..... (hmmm, ever hit a deer or another animal at speed...??? it sounds like a bomb going off at the front end and makes a hell of a mess of the bodywork) yet apart from a bone sticking out of the grille of the vehicle, it is completely undamaged (I mean completely....even the grille)......... meh.It's also written. Like there is no shortage. Of full stops. Which I found. Really annoying. So the story is written as a 2 lines of text (full stop) 2 lines of text (full stop) etc..........Better books out there for me, as I bought this before any reviews (liked the premise and cover photograph) but only just got round to trying it and subsequently stopping at 9% as I like my zombie fiction to have a bit more 'realism' and bleakness to it.However whilst it wasn't my cup of tea, if your a fan of Mark Tufo's work (Zombie Fallout etc), then this lighter, more humerous take on the zombie apocalypse may be right up your street.