Review: So you like the apocalypse? Human behavior? Zombies?Up all night!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
Ok, so I stayed up all night reading this, and I mean until early this morning. That is a can't put down book.The writing is so good, dispite the spelling, typos and grammatical errors that were less in this omnibus edition than in episode one alone. I so love the relationship between the boy and his father. The way the father talks to Jaimie about the shame he has about his past, well, it is a story within a story. Jaimie's viewpoint is very interesting too, and you can see each person clearly. His mother "Jack" (for Jacqueline) is a great assertive woman who defends her son although she has very little understanding of him and does not communicate with Jaimie as well as his father does. Jaimie is a selective mute. He reads the dictionary and loves the meanings of words and the way they feel and the colors they make. He loves the Latin words and when he does say a word or words it is often in Latin because I think he believes it better describes what he wants to communicate.If you like zombie slash and run type of stories, this is not one of those...yet! At the end of Season One they are escaping their homes out of necessity, partly due to zombies but mostly due to evil people. I truly think that in a zombie apocalypse the ones to fear are evil desperate people more than the zombies themselves, although a horde of them would not be a good thing.Jaimie is able to detect lies in a person's aura. Yes, he sees auras, and once he was able to make his father feel happy by giving him his energy while holding his hand, of which his father was not aware. So we may see more of Jaimie's abilities come through in Season Two.This is an amazing start to an apocalyptic story. Oh, and don't forget the "Red Queen" who started the whole thing, for whom we don't know yet, but there is an underlying conspiracy of sorts going on in England that spreads all over.If you like a book that really gets into the people and has a great mystery, an apocalypse and zombies, you have found the right book.