Review: Very Political so far
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2013
Not what I was hoping for. The writing is well done but I guess I dont like politics incorporated into my zombie stories to the degree that they are here. The US is the first bad guy (wow, big surprise) who prevents a vaccine from an American-Indian doctor from being used because they (and other bad guys including mercenaries) want to kill most of the people off and control the ones who are left. Alice stumbles on this conspiracy when she meets the Queen of the biters who is half zombie and half human and who is also the doctor who tried to give the vaccine to those in power before the zombie apocalypse and now has to convince everyone that the biters are tragic victims and should be given another chance because if only the bad guys would let her, the Queen could develop an antidote. In the interest of full disclosure I have only read about the first quarter of the first book. Maybe after all the initial political exposition is done the story leaves politics behind and gets on with saving the human race from the zombies. Like I said this is great writing but this is not why I read zombie fiction. I'm not ready to feel guilty because my views of zombies are not politically correct.