Review: Fantastic & Fast paced!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
More Reviews at <a href="[...]"<a>As my family looks on and just shakes their head, I was reading this, on Christmas Day. I have to say it was a fabulous read and especially when everyone else was tired and I wasn’t quite ready for my nap!So… the upsides! This definitely has some horrific parts in it! It has guts everywhere, zombies eating everything they can get their hands and teeth on, and the blood just doesn’t stop gushing.The characters were also quite fun. I really enjoyed reading about their plight and the fact that this is all in a journal so of course I was never sure how it was going to end. Ricky surprisingly lives through a lot of disaster at the beginning when all hell is breaking loose. But it seems that it just continues throughout the story, although, Robert Kent does a great job of balancing the drama with some slow moments.How about a baseball chapter? Raise your hand if you think it’s a good idea.The plot was very interesting and I have to say, my favorite was the ending! I just loved how this ended! It’s not your normal ok everyone is going to live out the zombie apocalypse now, NOPE! Totally fantastic ending that I honestly didn’t see coming.The downside is that this goes back and forth between times. Ricky shows what has happened prior to the zombie invasion and sometimes that can get very confusing. I always got it together after a few sentences but it can be confusing when it’s right at a chapter that is seriously intense and I’m waiting to see what happens just to be taken back when there isn’t even any zombies! But there were times when I had to just laugh out loud…Thank you Molly Hale and sluts everywhere for your years of public service.But even with that, the story line is seriously fun, really easy to read, and the characters were easy to cheer for. And there are some fabulous one liners in this, seriously… for a zombie book I think I laughed much more than I cringed! Well, maybe a bit, maybe not more…Dad motioned behind us to where the police officer dove his head into the guts of the collapsed manager as though he were feeding at a trough. “The law’s busy.”And my all time fav; when stories actually have something to say that makes you think!Wherever you are, if you have family or friends, love them. If you’ve got food, enjoy it. If you’re alive, live.4.5 / 5