Review: A Twisted Zombie Tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
***Received from Entangled Publishing for an honest review***(This is a short story/novella. This review is not based on story length but story content as length has very little to do with how much I enjoy a book.)An interesting, twisted tale about zombies, their creation, their uprising, and a couple's desperation to survive it to save what remains of their family.This isn't a story about the first zombie apocalypse; it's about the second. And told in first person, I was given front row seats to watch this disaster unfold.The attraction between Ceri (the story teller) and Jason (her ex-fiance) is beautifully woven into this short story without detracting from the main event: survive the zombies so they can find Ceri's daughter and mother, then make it back to a safe room before the military wipes out the building to stop the infected from leaving. And while I was on the edge of the seat with every page I turned, while I cheered as they got closer to Ceri's family, while I sighed when Jason and Ceri reconciled their past, I wept inside for the loss of Jason's brother (already infected) and his father (infected during the chaos).This story didn't miss a thing. Ms. McLean's writing is thorough. No question goes unanswered, no problem goes unresolved. She creates a world that's amazing to be a part of, tells about a horror I would dread experiencing, and writes a happy-ending that only a near-disaster could produce.Well done, Ms. McLean!