Review: mediocre
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
A freebie.I am a fan of both post apocalyptic and zombie stories and they often fit well together. This one had some promise to it in both genres.It started out OK, but the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo trying to explain how what happened never cut the mustard for me. Rather than scientific gibberish trying to explain it, it might have been better to just describe the effects and leave it at that.Its also another book with a badly overstated EMP effect. While I might buy into the magnitude of the effects overall, you just are not going to get burned up wire from it in the way that it was described. More science gibberish. Never bought into the idea that older motorcycles and cars are immune to EMP effects while basic wiring is destroyed by it. There is bunch of electrical wiring in cars and motorcycles, even though they may not have the electronics in them that modern cars have.The military side of things had a lot of seriously bad issues with it starting with the rank system used by the author. The US military just does not have a "brigadier" rank and the description of the military side of this thing had a lot of other mistakes in it.I did not buy into the idea that somehow clueless unarmed civilians can survive the zombie like hordes but well armed and trained soldiers are slaughtered by them.The idea that somehow one of the main characters was able to find his wife many hundreds of miles away in Africa during such a crisis was laughable.The ending was really strange. Somehow a reconciliation tribunal solved all the problems. Just not believable.I just cannot recommend a book that has so many bad pieces to it. I did finish it though so it gets two stars in the ILBOB rating system.