Review: Interesting take on the pandemic theme, needs editing work
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2013
The Orphan Flu reads a bit like a zombie story in the beginning, but the people simply sicken and die instead of coming back to attack the survivors. Instead, the survivors are in danger from each other. The opening chapters of the book are pretty rough and hard to get into at first, but once the action begins to pick up and gets away from so much inner dialogue, the story begins to come together. There are several twists and turns to yank your heartstrings and you genuinely begin to care about what happens to these two little girls.There needs to be additional editing and fact-checking on some of the action/weapons sequences, such as the hunting scene and some of the unrealistic scenarios are hard to keep up with, but if you are willing to overlook these rough patches, there is the beginnings of an interesting series contained here. Where do they go from here?The ending was certainly abrupt and left you feeling somehow hollow and empty, much like the protagonist, which is a credit to the author for producing the emotion. I definitely would expect a follow-on effort, as the nation tried to rebuild itself with only children and scattered survivors left to pick up the pieces.I received a complimentary copy of this book to review.