Review: A Trainwreck Appeal That You Can't Put Down
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
I should say to start with that my favorite genre is not horror, this zombie filled nightmare will trouble my sleep for a long time I fear.Robert Locklear just wants to get his family to safety is the basic premise of this novella which is meant to introduce a series, as you can guess things eventually go horribly wrong.Since this is such a short story I cannot really write much about the story itself without giving away things that need to be discovered in the reading.  This is NOT a happy story, it is a nightmare where nobody is safe for long and things are pretty much end of world type scenario.What it DOES do well is lock you into a story you really can't put down, it is good at times and horrible at others, the further you go the worse it gets and you hold out hope that things can be salvaged.I read it in one sitting and the short stories hidden in the back of the book are total horror tidbits that have no connection to the story except in a very general manner.I should make mention of the fact that while this is a gruesome tale the author did show some restraint in certain areas that many authors would have gone and kept this to a strict story of drama and horror while not allowing it to stray into any type of sexual deviancy (which would have been easy).Let me say that this was riveting reading, it was not happy and if you appreciate a good tale of struggle against all odds with a tale of horror to keep you awake at night, this is a superb example.  4 Stars because I could not really give it much less without an insult to the genre.